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How to Fix Error Code 10

The Code 10 error is one of several Device Manager error codes. The Code 10 error will almost always display in the following way:

“This device cannot start. (Code 10)”

Details on Device Manager error codes like Code 10 are available in the Device Status area in the device’s properties: How To View a Device’s Status in Device Manager. A Code 10 error is generated when Device Manager can’t start the hardware device, a situation usually caused by outdated or corrupted drivers.
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Method A:

1. Download & install DriverTuner.
2. Click the down arrow button on upper right interface and choose to enter license.
3. Scan for new drivers.
4. Click download ( just download drivers you want, you don’t need to download all drivers)
5. After download completed, click ‘setup’ button to install it.
6. Reboot computer.

Method B:

1. Restart your computer if you haven’t done so already.
2. There is always the chance that the error Code 10 you’re seeing on a device was caused by some temporary problem in Device Manager or with the hardware. If so, a reboot might fix the Code 10 error.
3. Did you install a device or make a change in Device Manager just before the Code 10 error appeared? If so, it’s very possible that the change you made caused the Code 10 error.
4. Undo the change if you can, restart your PC, and then check again for the Code 10 error.
5. Depending on the changes you made, some solutions might include:
Remove or reconfigure the newly installed device.
Roll back the driver to a version prior to your update.
Use System Restore to undo recent Device Manager related changes.

How to Find Drivers?

We maybe already know that driver is a small piece of code that added in the operating system and including the information of relevant hardware equipment. With this information, the computer can communicate with the device. The driver is configuration files which are redacted by the hardware vendors depending on the operating
system , it can be said that if there is no driver, computer hardware will not work.

If operating systems is different and so is hardware drivers. Various hardware vendors will continue to upgrade the driver in order to ensure hardware compatibility and enhance hardware features. Such as, Nvidia company will upgrade the graphics card driver 2-3 times a monthly. The driver is part of hardware, when you install the new hardware, the driver is an indispensable element. Those who install a hardware equipment that originally do not belong to your computer, the system will ask you to install driver, and connect the new hardware and computer system. Drivers play a role of communication, it tells the computer system hardware function, and also transmit the system instruction to hardware, and make it begin to work.

You are always asked to introduce related drivers when you install new hardware, a lot of people are upset then. Either can not find the driver disc, or can not find the location of the file, or simply do not know what is the driver. Such as when you install some kind of hardware peripherals, it is not finished when you connect
the connecting line, and if you start to use at this time, the system will show you “can’t find the driver.”. What should you do? Reference manual may not help you to install smoothly.

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