Realtek Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller is a Network Adapters hardware device. This driver was developed by Realtek. PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_08661025&REV_12 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Realtek Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Realtek Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller driver. The archive contains version 7.126.0510.2019 dated 2019-05-10 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (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 setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will scan your PC 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. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed by Realtek.
Download size of the driver: 764200 bytes (746.29 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.9 stars by 92011 users.
This driver is compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• 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 PCIe GbE Family Controller 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. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Start DriverMax and click on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to 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 PCIe GbE Family Controller driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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