FTDI LEGIC Generic Device x01 - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

LEGIC Generic Device x01 is a USB Universal Serial Bus device. The developer of this driver was FTDI. USB/VID_27F4&PID_0001 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install FTDI LEGIC Generic Device x01 driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the FTDI LEGIC Generic Device x01 driver. The archive contains version 2.12.14 released on 2016-01-22 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 scan your computer 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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This driver is digitally signed by FTDI.
Download size of the driver: 592135 bytes (578.26 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.7 stars out of 82096 votes.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• 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. The easy way: using DriverMax to install FTDI LEGIC Generic Device x01 driver

The most important 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. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and click 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 driver updates. Search the list until you locate the FTDI LEGIC Generic Device x01 driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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