Driver for Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188CE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC - downloading and installing it

Realtek RTL8188CE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC is a Network Adapters hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Realtek Semiconductor Corp.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8176&SUBSYS_81871025.

1. Manually install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188CE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188CE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC driver. The archive contains version 1005.12.0105.2011 released on 2011-01-05 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 enabled please confirm the installation 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 analyze 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. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed by Realtek Semiconductor Corp..
File size of the driver: 476528 bytes (465.36 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.5 stars out of 14822 votes.
This driver will work for 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. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188CE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188CE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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