Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC

The Windows Driver Kit (WDK) is integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and Debugging Tools for Windows. This integrated environment gives you the tools you need to develop, build, package, deploy, test, and debug drivers. You can run many basic certification tests in the integrated environment. The WDK includes templates for several technologies and driver models, including Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF), Universal Serial Bus (USB), print, networking, and file system filters. This kit will run on Visual Studio Desktop Express as well as Visual Studio Professional.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to April 2023.

Files
wdksetup.exe SHA1: 3daf03810ea923a67c93ec8b4a13b4dc4fda442a Size: 557 KB
wdktestsetup.exe SHA1: 2290a3e9dd804385671dfc22fcb219d153cfe4ba Size: 542 KB

File sizes and hashes are retrieved from the Wayback Machine’s indexes. They may not match the latest versions of files hosted on Microsoft servers.

Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012,Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 (Desktop Express, Professional, Ultimate SKUs)

Windows Driver Kit (WDK) 8.1 is integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 2013. First install Visual Studio 2013, and then install WDK 8.1.