Driver for Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-N 8260 - downloading and installing it

Intel R Dual Band Wireless-N 8260 is a Network Adapters hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Intel Corporation. PCI/VEN_8086&DEV_24F3&SUBSYS_00048086 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-N 8260 driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-N 8260 driver. The archive contains version 19.80.0.100 dated 2017-08-15 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your UAC (User Access Control) is started please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed by the manufacturer.
Download size of the driver: 8990568 bytes (8.57 MB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.5 stars out of 96213 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. Installing the Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-N 8260 driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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

1. Open DriverMax and push on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-N 8260 driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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