Driver for Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0166 - downloading and installing it

Realtek Card Reader 0166 is a USB Universal Serial Bus hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Realtek. In order to make sure you are downloading the exact right driver the hardware id is USB/VID_0BDA&PID_0166&MI_01.

1. How to manually install Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0166 driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0166 driver. The archive contains version 6.0.6000.0074 dated 2008-10-07 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is enabled please confirm the installation 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 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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Realtek applied a digital signature to this driver.
The file size of this driver is 1615190 bytes (1.54 MB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.3 stars by 31079 users.
This driver is compatible with 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 Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0166 driver

The most important advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Search the list until you find the Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0166 driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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