Driver for Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0159 - downloading and installing it

Realtek Card Reader 0159 is a USB Universal Serial Bus hardware device. This driver was developed by Realtek. USB/VID_0BDA&PID_0159 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0159 driver - how to install it manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0159 driver. The archive contains version 6.0.6000.0074 released on 2008-10-07 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is running please accept 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 pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze your computer 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. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed by the manufacturer.
The file size of this driver is 1566280 bytes (1.49 MB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.1 stars out of 78929 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 32 bits
• 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 Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0159 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 follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~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 locate the Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0159 driver. Click on Update.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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