Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter is a Network Adapters device. This Windows driver was developed by Realtek Semiconductor Corp.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8176&SUBSYS_1786103C; this string has to match your hardware.

1. How to manually install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter driver. The archive contains version 2012.10.0224.2014 released on 2014-03-13 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (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. Follow the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty 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 Semiconductor Corp. applied a digital signature to this driver.
The file size of this driver is 1540833 bytes (1.47 MB)
Driver rating 4 stars out of 82132 votes.
This driver is fully 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. How to install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter driver using DriverMax

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install 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 push on the yellow button named ~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. Scroll the list down until you locate the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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