How to Find Hardware ID to Search for Device Drivers?

What Is a HWID?

The full name of HWID is hardware ID.

A hardware ID on Windows 10/11 is a vendor-defined identification string that Windows uses to match a device to a driver package. A hardware ID can identify what a device is to some level of specificity and is indicating that any driver package that declares it can work with a device that has that ID can work with this device for some degree of functionality.

In most cases, a device has more than one hardware ID associated with it. Typically, a list of hardware IDs is sorted from most to least suitable for a device.

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How to Find Hardware ID？

Many users don’t know where the hardware ID is and how to check hwid. Is there any available hardware ID checker?

You can check the hardware ID in Device Manager and it is easy to do this.

Step 1: Right-click Start (the Windows icon in the taskbar) and select Device Manager to open it.

Step 2: Find your target device and right-click it, then select Properties.

Step 3: Switch to the Details tab.

Step 4: Expand the options under Property, then select Hardware Ids.

Usually, you can see multiple hardware IDs for a device. This is not strange. The top one is the most specific identifier, the following identifiers are more generic. A hardware ID is used to select a matched device driver to fix your computer issues.

How to Find a Device Driver Using a Hardware ID?

A hardware ID is not for a simple look. The hardware ID is available for devices in which drivers were already installed, for unknown devices and not recognized devices.

To get the latest version of a device driver, you can use the hardware ID to search for drivers in Microsoft Update Catalog or using a search engine.

You can right-click the hardware ID and select Copy to copy it. Then, you can search for this ID in Microsoft Update Catalog. If you cannot find a driver using this way, you can paste the hardware ID to your web browser and search for the driver from the manufacture’s website. Then you can download it for further use.

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