Configure devices and device drivers in Windows 10

In this sample chapter from Exam Ref 70-698 Installing and Configuring Windows 10 , learn how Windows 10 installs drivers for new devices and hardware—and how you can maintain, upgrade, or resolve issues that might occur.


Windows 10 identifies and configures hardware during the initial installation. Upon delivery of a device running Windows 10, the user will typically want to add their own hardware and peripherals such as a printer, a Bluetooth mouse, or web cam. In this chapter, you learn how Windows 10 installs drivers for new devices and hardware and how you can maintain these drivers, upgrade them, and resolve driver issues that might occur.

Skills covered in this chapter:

  • Install devices

  • Update, disable, and roll back drivers

  • Resolve driver issues

  • Configure driver settings

  • Driver signing

  • Manage driver packages

  • Download and import driver packages

  • Use Deployment Image And Service Management tool (DISM) to add packages

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