Download and install DisplayLink Corp. DisplayLink Display Adapter 8040 driver

DisplayLink Display Adapter 8040 is a USB Display Adapters device. The developer of this driver was DisplayLink Corp.. The hardware id of this driver is USB/VID_17e9&PID_8040.

1. Manually install DisplayLink Corp. DisplayLink Display Adapter 8040 driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the DisplayLink Corp. DisplayLink Display Adapter 8040 driver. The archive contains version 7.9.630.0 released on 2015-10-16 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is started please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will analyze your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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DisplayLink Corp. applied a digital signature to this driver.
File size of the driver: 9055795 bytes (8.64 MB)
Driver rating 4.9 stars out of 9728 votes.
This driver is compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 32 bits

2. The easy way: using DriverMax to install DisplayLink Corp. DisplayLink Display Adapter 8040 driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Search the list until you locate the DisplayLink Corp. DisplayLink Display Adapter 8040 driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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