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

Realtek Card Reader 0166 is a USB Universal Serial Bus device. The developer of this driver was Realtek. The hardware id of this driver is USB/VID_0BDA&PID_0166&MI_01.

1. 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 6.0.6000.0081 released on 2009-02-03 of the driver.
2.  
3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is running please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
4.  
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.
6.  
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!
8.  

This driver is digitally signed by Realtek.
Size of this driver: 1682213 bytes (1.60 MB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.8 stars out of 18423 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 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, not just this one. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your computer.
2.  
3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0166 driver. Click the Update button.
4.  
5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
6.