# Adding drivers

With DISMTools you can add third-party drivers to a Windows image. This action can be accessed by clicking Commands > Drivers > Add driver...

## Target OS support

This action is supported on the following platforms:

Platform | Supported?
--- | ---
Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 | ✔
Windows 8/Server 2012 | ✔
Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2 | ✔
Windows 10/Server 2016/2019/2022 | ✔
Windows 11/Server 2025 | ✔

This action is supported on DISMTools 0.3 and newer

NOTE: DISM will not be invoked when you add drivers to active installations. Instead, the PnP Utility (`pnputil.exe`) will be used to add drivers to the system. DISMTools will adapt its command line arguments to work with pnputil depending on the installed system, with command line arguments being different in Windows 8 and Windows 10 and newer. Performing this action on active installations is only supported on DISMTools 0.7 and newer.

## Usage

You need to specify driver packages and/or folders to add to your Windows image by adding or dropping them to the driver files list. Folders get automatically added to the driver folders list, which allows the program to scan the folders you want recursively for driver packages.

You may also need to specify some settings in order to get the result you want.

## Options

- If you're testing a driver, you can skip the signed driver requirement on x64 systems by forcing the installation of unsigned drivers, though it may cause instability in the resulting image
- If you want, you can commit the image after adding the drivers

## Related topics

- Command-line help

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