Drivers

Drivers are a small program that allows another peripheral to connected to your computer so that the 2 machines can "talk" to each other.

Drivers usually come on a seperate disc that comes with the peripheral you have bought, this disc usually has to be used with older versions of Windows such as XP as newer versions the Operating System has most of the drivers "built in".

Windows XP is an older Operating System now and although perfectly good at doing the daily tasks you need to do, technology has moved on, with newer versions of Windows such as Vista or Windows 7 if the driver isn't already "built in" the computer will connect to the Internet and search for the driver from the relevant makers web site.