How to Find a Driver’s Version Number
You can find an installed driver’s version number from within Device Manager, along with other published information about the driver.
Tips and More Information
Here are some caveats to know about and some alternative ways to locate a driver’s version number: The easiest way to do this in Windows 11/10/8 is from the Power User Menu (WIN+X keyboard shortcut), or with Control Panel in older versions of Windows. See Tip 4 below for some other methods that might be quicker for some people. For example, if you’re trying to find the driver version number for your video card, you’d look in the Display adapters section, or in the Network adapters section for your network card, etc. You can open as many categories as you want until you find the right one. For example, if you right-click the Display adapters section and not a device within that section, you’ll see just two options: Scan for hardware changes and Properties, and opening the properties window might reveal just one or two tabs and not the one we’re after. What you want to do is expand the category as noted above, and then open the properties of the hardware device. From there, you should see the Driver tab and, ultimately, the driver version, driver provider, driver date, etc. See our Free Driver Updater Tools list for more on these helpful programs. See the Other Ways to Open Device Manager section in our How to Open Device Manager tutorial if you’re interested in opening Device Manager from Command Prompt, the Run dialog box, or via Computer Management in Administrative Tools.
