Get Windows Drivers Off Your Computer

Did you know that you can, with one easy PowerShell command, extract all 3rd-party Windows drivers from a computer to a folder? It uses the DISM module and is built into newer versions of Windows.

1. Create a folder location that you want to save the driver files to. In the example we will use C:\Drivers
2. Open PowerShell elevated (as Admin)
   • Tip 1: Right-click on the Start Menu Button and click "Windows PowerShell (Admin)"
   • Tip 2: Or do it all with your keyboard >> Press Windows Key + X and then press the A key
3. Type the following command:  Export-WindowsDriver -Online -Destination C:\Drivers | Out-File -FilePath C:\Drivers\Drivers.txt
4. Wait a minute and now you have a folder of all your current drivers backed up or to use for deployment

All the details and switches for this are available from Microsoft's PowerShell Documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/dism/export-windowsdriver

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