Device Driver File

File Extension: .drv Developer: N/A Views: 32305 Updated: 2010-11-29 18:47:34 Hex: N/A ASCII: N/A

Drivers are programs that tell the hardware on your computer how to interact with the operating system and commonly use the extension DRV.

Drivers are used by almost all hardware devices such as.

  » Graphic Card

  » Sound Card

  » Network Adapter

  » Printer

  » Storage Devices

Some device drivers can be virtual and then emulate the device needed and instead of acessing the actual hardware it accesses a virtual driver that emulates the hardware.

Drivers are often stored as DLL files though the use of EXE is also used.