How to Install a High Speed USB Driver

By Gabriel Dockery, eHow Contributor

High speed USB allows for a marked increase in USB transfer bandwidth over its predecessors. However, without the proper high speed USB driver, the system will default to older, slower transfer speeds, despite having up-to-date hardware. Installing the high speed USB driver allows for USB devices such as external hard drives and disc drives to operate quickly and efficiently without stutter.

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Instructions

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     Download the High Speed USB driver from Microsoft. (See References). You may want to choose your desktop as the download location, as this make it easy for you to locate the setup file later.
     
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     Navigate to the location to which you chose to download the driver, and locate the setup file.
     
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     Launch the setup program by double-clicking the setup icon in order to begin the driver installation process. You will see an installation window that shows the current progress of the installation.
     
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     Once launched, the setup program will require no user interaction whatsoever, outside of monitoring the progress bar to ensure no errors occur during the setup process.
     
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     Restart the computer to allow the system changes to take effect. Due to the installation changing system-level drivers, you must restart your computer for the change to high speed USB to take effect.