How to see installed drivers without reading console output
The standard answer to seeing your installed drivers is to open Command Prompt, type driverquery, then add /v for more columns and a redirect to save it. The result is a wall of fixed-width text. Device Manager goes device by device instead. Neither puts the signature, the maker and the build date of every driver side by side.
Driver Query reads the same registered driver list directly from Windows and puts it in a dense, sortable table: Driver, Module, State, Start, Signature, Maker, Version, Built and Kind. Click a header to sort, type in the search box to narrow it by name, module, maker or path, and widen the window to reveal more columns.
Select a row and the details pane opens the driver up. It shows the kind, how it Starts, its State and Load group, whether it accepts stop or pause Controls, the full Path with an Open file location button, File size, Code and Paged pool sizes, the Built date, and what it Depends on and what Windows does On failure.
Find unsigned drivers in one filter
Once the list loads, every driver file is put through Windows' own trust check, both against the signed catalogs and against any signature embedded in the file. The Signature column then reads Signed (catalog), Signed, Not signed or File missing.
Set the maker filter to Not signed to see only the drivers that failed. That is the shortlist worth looking at when you are chasing a blue screen after installing new hardware, or auditing a machine for leftover kernel software from an old VPN, game anti-cheat or hardware utility. On a slow disk, turn off Check driver signatures in Settings and the column reads Not checked.
Drivers list filters: running, disabled, kernel, non-Microsoft
Three filters sit above the table and combine with the search box. State narrows to All, Running, Stopped or Disabled. Kind narrows to Kernel or File system drivers. Maker picks Microsoft, Non-Microsoft or Not signed, using the company name stored in each file's version information.
Non-Microsoft is the quickest way to see what third-party drivers a PC carries, and sorting that view by Built shows which ones are years older than the rest.
How to export a driver list to CSV, Excel or paper
Everything you see can leave the app, and the keyboard covers each step.
- Ctrl+S or Export CSV saves the list as currently shown, filters and all, as a spreadsheet with 19 columns.
- Ctrl+C copies the selected drivers, or Copy the list as shown copies everything, in a form that pastes into Excel as rows and columns.
- Ctrl+P prints the list as it appears.
- Ctrl+A selects every visible driver, and Ctrl or Shift clicks build a selection by hand.
- Ctrl+F jumps to the search box and F5 reads every driver again.
