Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0166 - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek Card Reader 0166 is a USB Universal Serial Bus hardware device. This driver was developed by Realtek. USB/VID_0BDA&PID_0166&MI_01 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Manually install Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0166 driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0166 driver. The archive contains version 6.0.6000.0075 released on 2008-11-21 of the driver.
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3. Start 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. 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. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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Realtek applied a digital signature to this driver.
The file size of this driver is 1565962 bytes (1.49 MB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.5 stars out of 24496 votes.
This driver is compatible with 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. How to use DriverMax to install Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0166 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 easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Start DriverMax and click on the yellow button that says ~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 detected driver updates. Search the list until you find the Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0166 driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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