DisplayLink Corp. DisplayLink Display Adapter 42D5 - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

DisplayLink Display Adapter 42D5 is a USB Display Adapters hardware device. The developer of this driver was DisplayLink Corp.. USB/VID_17e9&PID_42D5&MI_00 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. DisplayLink Corp. DisplayLink Display Adapter 42D5 driver - how to install it manually

1. Download the driver setup file for DisplayLink Corp. DisplayLink Display Adapter 42D5 driver from the link below. This download link is for the driver version 5.0.17480.0 released on 2009-03-16.
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3. Start the driver setup file from a Windows account with the highest privileges (rights). If your UAC (User Access Control) is started then you will have to accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which should be quite straightforward. The driver setup wizard will analyze your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
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7. Shutdown and restart your computer and enjoy the new driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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DisplayLink Corp. applied a digital signature to this driver.
The file size of this driver is 279592 bytes (273.04 KB)
Driver rating 4.6 stars out of 57533 votes.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. How to install DisplayLink Corp. DisplayLink Display Adapter 42D5 driver using DriverMax

The most important advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and push on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the DisplayLink Corp. DisplayLink Display Adapter 42D5 driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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