{"id":3252,"date":"2013-07-11T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/07\/11\/powertip-use-powershell-3-0-in-windows-8-to-find-driver-information\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-3-0-in-windows-8-to-find-driver-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-3-0-in-windows-8-to-find-driver-information\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell 3.0 in Windows 8 to Find Driver Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell 3.0 in Windows to find detailed driver information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I obtain detailed information about a specific driver on my Windows 8 computer by using Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/><span style=\"font-size: small\">&nbsp;In an elevated&nbsp;Windows PowerShell console, use the&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Get-WindowsDriver<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet, specify the&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">&ndash;Online<\/strong>&nbsp;parameter, and specify the .<strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">inf<\/strong>&nbsp;file to the&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">&ndash;Driver<\/strong>&nbsp;parameter. This example returns detailed information about the Xbox 360 controller driver for Windows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Get-WindowsDriver -Online -Driver xusb22.inf<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell 3.0 in Windows to find detailed driver information. &nbsp;How can I obtain detailed information about a specific driver on my Windows 8 computer by using Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0? &nbsp;In an elevated&nbsp;Windows PowerShell console, use the&nbsp;Get-WindowsDriver&nbsp;cmdlet, specify the&nbsp;&ndash;Online&nbsp;parameter, and specify the .inf&nbsp;file to the&nbsp;&ndash;Driver&nbsp;parameter. This example returns detailed information about the Xbox 360 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell 3.0 in Windows to find detailed driver information. &nbsp;How can I obtain detailed information about a specific driver on my Windows 8 computer by using Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0? &nbsp;In an elevated&nbsp;Windows PowerShell console, use the&nbsp;Get-WindowsDriver&nbsp;cmdlet, specify the&nbsp;&ndash;Online&nbsp;parameter, and specify the .inf&nbsp;file to the&nbsp;&ndash;Driver&nbsp;parameter. This example returns detailed information about the Xbox 360 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}