Do you want to see a full list of all the drivers you have installed on your computer?
Did you wish there was a simple command you could run in command prompt to show all installed drivers?
Are you a system administrator and need to check a driver on a remote computer?
If you answered yes to any of the above, then read on to learn more about the driverquery command.
Open Command Prompt as Administrator
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1) Press the Windows Key
2) Type cmd and press return
3) Right Click the Command Prompt icon and select ‘ Run as Administrator’
Type the command
In the command prompt window enter the below command and press return
driverquery
You’ll be presented with a long list of all installed drivers.
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driverquery command options
The driverquery command has some advanced options that can be really helpful for running more advanced queries.
For example, if you want to run the command on a remote computer you can use the /s option followed by the computer name.
Here is a full list of paramaters that can be combined
DRIVERQUERY [/S system [/U username [/P [password]]]]
[/FO format] [/NH] [/SI] [/V]
Description:
Enables an administrator to display a list of
installed device drivers.
Parameter List:
/S system Specifies the remote system to connect to.
/U [domain\]user Specifies the user context
under which the command should execute.
/P [password] Specify the password for the given
user context.
/FO format Specifies the type of output to display.
Valid values to be passed with the
switch are "TABLE", "LIST", "CSV".
/NH Specifies that the "Column Header"
should not be displayed. Valid for
"TABLE" and "CSV" format only.
/SI Provides information about signed drivers.
/V Displays verbose output. Not valid
for signed drivers.
/? Displays this help message.
Examples:
DRIVERQUERY
DRIVERQUERY /FO CSV /SI
DRIVERQUERY /NH
DRIVERQUERY /S ipaddress /U user /V
DRIVERQUERY /S system /U domain\user /P password /FO LIST