Driver for Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 - downloading and installing it

Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 is a Network Adapters hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Intel Corporation. In order to make sure you are downloading the exact right driver the hardware id is PCI/VEN_8086&DEV_24F3&SUBSYS_81308086.

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

1. Download the driver setup file for Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 driver from the location below. This download link is for the driver version 19.10.4.1 dated 2017-01-30.
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3. Start the driver setup file from a Windows account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is running then you will have to accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver setup wizard, which should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will analyze your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
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7. Restart your computer and enjoy the fresh driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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Intel Corporation applied a digital signature to this driver.
Download size of the driver: 5991840 bytes (5.71 MB)
Driver rating 4.7 stars out of 14879 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• 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. 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 setup the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and press 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 detected driver updates. Search the list until you find the Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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