Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 is a Network Adapters device. This driver was developed by Intel Corporation. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_8086&DEV_24F3&SUBSYS_01508086.

1. How to manually install Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 driver. The archive contains version 18.40.3.2 released on 2016-04-24 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 (UAC) is enabled please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed by Intel Corporation.
The file size of this driver is 5741138 bytes (5.48 MB)
Driver rating 4.8 stars out of 53859 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. Using DriverMax to install Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install 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 follow a few steps!

1. Start DriverMax and push on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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