Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188CU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB 2.0 Network Adapter how to download and install the driver

Realtek RTL8188CU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB 2.0 Network Adapter is a Network Adapters device. This driver was developed by Realtek Semiconductor Corp.. USB/VID_0BDA&PID_8176 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188CU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB 2.0 Network Adapter driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188CU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB 2.0 Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 1015.6.0210.2012 dated 2012-02-10 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative 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. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite 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 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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Realtek Semiconductor Corp. applied a digital signature to this driver.
Download size of the driver: 722028 bytes (705.11 KB)
Driver rating 4.6 stars out of 19196 votes.
This driver is 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. Installing the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188CU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB 2.0 Network Adapter driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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 can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and press 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 Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188CU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB 2.0 Network Adapter driver. Click on Update.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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