TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Realtek RTL8188CU Wireless LAN 802.11 USB 2.0 Network Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek RTL8188CU Wireless LAN 802.11 USB 2.0 Network Adapter is a Network Adapters hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.. The hardware id of this driver is USB/VID_0BDA&PID_8177.

1. Install TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Realtek RTL8188CU Wireless LAN 802.11 USB 2.0 Network Adapter driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Realtek RTL8188CU Wireless LAN 802.11 USB 2.0 Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 1024.12.0314.2014 released on 2014-03-31 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 PC 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 TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD..
The file size of this driver is 1279561 bytes (1.22 MB)
Driver rating 4.1 stars out of 58624 votes.
This driver was released for 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 TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Realtek RTL8188CU Wireless LAN 802.11 USB 2.0 Network Adapter 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. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and press 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 available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Realtek RTL8188CU Wireless LAN 802.11 USB 2.0 Network Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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