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What is a Driver: A program that controls a device. Every device, whether it be a printer, disk drive, or keyboard, must have a driver program. Many drivers, such as the keyboard driver, come with the operating system. For other devices, you may need to load a new driver when you connect the device to your computer. In Windows environments, drivers often have a .DRV extension.

A driver acts like a translator between the device and programs that use the device. Each device has its own set of specialized commands that only its driver knows. In contrast, most programs access devices by using generic commands. The driver, therefore, accepts generic commands from a program and then translates them into specialized commands for the device.

VARIOUS WEB SITES THAT MAY BE OF HELP: I will try and add more as I find more. Thanks

1. http://www.driverguide.com If you need a driver for your computer try here.

2. http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ Apple Macintoshes FTP site

3. http://www.apple.com Apple Macintosh Web Site

4. http://www.microsoft.com Microsoft’s homepage

5. http://www.linuxiso.org/ LinuxISO.org - A place to learn about, download, and discuss Linux.

6. http://www.visualparadox.com/ Visual Paradox Free 3D Wallpaper

7. http://www.tucows.com/ Tucows Downloads -Download freeware and shareware software

8. http://download.com.com/2001-20-0.html Download.com windows Downloads -Download freeware and shareware software

9. http://download.com.com/2001-2003-0.html?tag=dir Download.com Mac Downloads -Download freeware and shareware software

10. http://www.bootdisk.com/ The majority of tips, tweaks, files, bootdisks, instructions, utilities, links, patches, updates, and all other information contained on this site are posted for experienced DOS and Windows users.