Chapter 8. Managing hardware devices and drivers

Managing a computer’s hardware configuration is largely about installing and maintaining operating system components, hardware devices, and device drivers. However, managing the hardware configuration of computers running Windows 7 and later is very different from managing the configuration of computers designed for earlier releases of Windows. Many aspects of Windows 8.1 are automatically monitored and updated and don’t need to be configured or maintained in the same way as they were previously. Windows 8.1 uses the following features: ...

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