Can someone explain what "drivers" are for. I see them on every site and no one will answere.

To the best of my knowledge, drivers are like a command line that tells the peice of hardware what to do, and how to do it. Newer drivers tell the peice of equipment how to do things better, I could be wrong.

"drivers" are what operating systems use to communicate with hardware.

A device driver is a program that controls a particular type of device that is attached to your computer. There are device drivers for printers, displays, CD-ROM readers, diskette drives, and so on. When you buy an operating system, many device drivers are built into the product. However, if you later buy a new type of device that the operating system didn't anticipate, you'll have to install the new device driver. A device driver essentially converts the more general input/output instructions of the operating system to messages that the device type can understand.

Some Windows programs are virtual device drivers. These programs interface with the Windows Virtual Machine Manager. There is a virtual device driver for each main hardware device in the system, including the hard disk drive controller, keyboard, and serial and parallel ports. They're used to maintain the status of a hardware device that has changeable settings. Virtual device drivers handle software interrupts from the system rather than hardware interrupts.

In Windows operating systems, a device driver file usually has a file name suffix of DLL or EXE. A virtual device driver usually has the suffix of VXD.

Got this at http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/sDefin...i211938,00.html

There are other links for more info there. Hope it helps.

A driver is a program that interacts with a particular device or special (frequently optional) kind of software. The driver contains the special knowledge of the device or special software interface that programs using the driver do not. In personal computers, a driver is often packaged as a dynamic link library (DLL) file

then once the hardware works,why change them. This doesent make sence.

they are software upgrades to help ur hardware work better...or so they are suppose to

of course the dont always make thingz better