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There are new “Devices by drivers”, “Drivers by type”, and “Drivers by devices” filters so you can easily users to view, install, and remove drivers. Other improvements to Device ManagerĪdditionally, Device Manager now lets you view drivers alongside devices. If you have an ancient floppy disk, you can still connect it to a Windows 11 device and it will be recognized by the OS. Starting with Windows 11, Device Manager no longer defaults to A:\ i.e it doesn’t ask you for a floppy disk for drivers (icon has also been replaced).ĭevice Manager can now automatically detect the OS drive, so you can easily locate the driver package if you extracted the downloaded zip file to a folder on the system drive.Īs some users have pointed out, ancient floppy disks are still supported on Windows 11, including the 5.25” floppy disks. This has been fixed in Windows 11 Build 22000 (stable). Microsoft took a while to figure out that the A:/ assignment is pointless as the era of Floppy drives is now over. Device Manager now uses system drive path for drivers

If your computer does not have floppy disk drives, it doesn’t make sense for Device Manager to use A: location.

In Windows 10 or older, Device Manager’s default location is set to A:\ when you browse menus like “Have Disk”.Ī is apparently not just a random letter assigned by Microsoft.Īs per a blog post published in 2014 for Windows Vista, A and B are usually reserved for floppy disk drives. Device Manager defaults to Floppy Drive location in Windows 10