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. The developer of this driver was Intel Corporation. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_8086&DEV_24F3&SUBSYS_01F08086.

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

1. Download the driver setup file for Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 driver from the link below. This download link is for the driver version 19.70.0.100 dated 2017-05-28.
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3. Start the driver setup file from a Windows account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is started then you will have to confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver setup wizard, which should be pretty straightforward. The driver setup wizard will scan your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
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7. Shutdown and restart your PC and enjoy the new driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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This driver is digitally signed.
Size of this driver: 86061248 bytes (82.07 MB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.6 stars by 4284 users.
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. Installing the Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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 with DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open 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 computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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