![]() But we'd need to make sure that it is from a trusted vendor and is actively maintained, to make sure that there aren't any incompatibilities. That's a good point If we could find a third-party driver that had a publically-available installer, that should be fine. It doesn't necessarily have to be the official Microsoft one, just something compatible. ![]() If the source driver isn't signed with a certificate that the destination can verify (in that case you need to boot into safe mode with the driver verifier disabled).If the source driver is from a different version of Windows.If the normal driver installer does some extra config that you don't do yourself (e.g.If the version that you copy has had a Windows Update applied to it that the other files on the destination PC don't have.My worry is that there are a lot of cases where taking official Windows driver files from one PC and manually installing them on another can leave you in a bad state: I am not familiar with any normal cases where one installs a driver that didn't come from either Windows Update or a manufacturer's disk, and when it comes on a disk it's an installer and not the pure. Loading drivers from external sources is a pretty common occurrence pretty much everywhere, isn't it? It voids volume licensing and associated warranties - mostly for corporate-owned Windows installations, though.
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