Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0169 - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek Card Reader 0169 is a USB Universal Serial Bus device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Realtek. USB/VID_0BDA&PID_0169&MI_01 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Install Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0169 driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0169 driver. The archive contains version 6.0.6000.0072 released on 2008-08-29 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your UAC (User Access Control) is started please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow 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 shutdown and 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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This driver is digitally signed.
Size of this driver: 1615443 bytes (1.54 MB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.7 stars out of 29215 votes.
This driver is fully 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 0169 driver

The most important 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 easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Start DriverMax and push 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 available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Realtek Realtek Card Reader 0169 driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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