How can I check a history of drivers installation on Windows 8?
For example I know that in the last week someone installed new drivers. How can I check what drivers were installed and for what equipment?
Is it possible to do this with event logs (Event Viewer)?
1 Answer
How can I check a history of driver installation on Windows 8?
You can use DriverView from NirSoft:
DriverView utility displays the list of all device drivers currently loaded on your system. For each driver in the list, additional useful information is displayed: load address of the driver, description, version, product name, company that created the driver, and more.
Restriction:
- Only loaded drivers are displayed.
Displayed information includes "Created Date" and "Modified Date".
- "Created Date" is the installation date.
- "Modified Date" is the last update date.
Example screenshot from my laptop (sorted by most recent "Modified Date"):
Note:
- Other columns are available, I've removed some to reduce the width of the image and left the more interesting ones.
Disclaimer
I am not affiliated with NirSoft in any way, I am just an end user of the software.
