Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8192CE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek RTL8192CE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC is a Network Adapters hardware device. This driver was developed by Realtek Semiconductor Corp.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8178&SUBSYS_818510EC; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Manually install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8192CE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8192CE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC driver. The archive contains version 1002.2.0428.2010 dated 2010-04-28 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control (UAC) is running please accept 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 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.
Download size of the driver: 500446 bytes (488.72 KB)
Driver rating 4.2 stars out of 39807 votes.
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 Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8192CE 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, not just this one. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button named ~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 detected driver updates. Search the list until you find the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8192CE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC driver. Click on Update.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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