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 hardware device. The developer of this driver was Intel Corporation. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_8086&DEV_24F3&SUBSYS_81328086; this string has to match your hardware.

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

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 driver. The archive contains version 18.33.1.1 dated 2016-02-04 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control (UAC) is enabled 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 quite 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 shutdown and 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.
File size of the driver: 6317018 bytes (6.02 MB)
Driver rating 5 stars out of 89993 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• 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 can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and push on the yellow button named ~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 find the Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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