{"id":4722,"date":"2012-11-04T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/11\/04\/powertip-use-powershell-to-obtain-a-listing-of-windows-drivers\/"},"modified":"2012-11-04T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-obtain-a-listing-of-windows-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-obtain-a-listing-of-windows-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Obtain a Listing of Windows Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary:<\/b>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-WindowsDriver<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet to obtain a quick list of Windows drivers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/strong>How can I use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 on a computer running Windows&nbsp;8 or Windows Server&nbsp;2012 to obtain a list of drivers?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-WindowsDriver<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet and specify the&nbsp;<b>&ndash;online<\/b>&nbsp;switch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Get-WindowsDriver -Online<\/p>\n<\/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\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-WindowsDriver&nbsp;cmdlet to obtain a quick list of Windows drivers. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 on a computer running Windows&nbsp;8 or Windows Server&nbsp;2012 to obtain a list of drivers? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-WindowsDriver&nbsp;cmdlet and specify the&nbsp;&ndash;online&nbsp;switch. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&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":[362,356,3,367,45,368],"class_list":["post-4722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powershell-3","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-8","tag-windows-powershell","tag-windows-server-2012"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-WindowsDriver&nbsp;cmdlet to obtain a quick list of Windows drivers. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 on a computer running Windows&nbsp;8 or Windows Server&nbsp;2012 to obtain a list of drivers? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-WindowsDriver&nbsp;cmdlet and specify the&nbsp;&ndash;online&nbsp;switch. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722","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=4722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722\/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=4722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}