Surface Surface PTP Filter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Surface PTP Filter is a USB human interface device class hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Surface. HID/VID_045E&PID_07E5&MI_00&Col06 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Manually install Surface Surface PTP Filter driver

1. Download the driver setup file for Surface Surface PTP Filter driver from the link below. This download link is for the driver version 1.0.173.1 dated 2017-03-03.
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3. Run the driver installation file from a Windows account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is started then you will have to confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which should be quite straightforward. The driver installation 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 updated driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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Surface applied a digital signature to this driver.
Size of this driver: 75529 bytes (73.76 KB)
Driver rating 4.8 stars out of 19724 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with 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. Installing the Surface Surface PTP Filter driver using DriverMax: the easy way

The most important 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 with DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Start DriverMax and click 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 detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Surface Surface PTP Filter driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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