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Manual Installation Guide for Android USB Driver & ADB/Fastboot (Windows 10/11)

This guide provides simple, direct steps to manually install the Google USB Driver and ADB/Fastboot binaries using winget on Windows 10/11.

Download the Driver
- Download the Google USB Driver and extract the ZIP to a folder (e.g., C:\usb_driver).
Update Driver in Device Manager
- Open Device Manager.
- Locate your Android device (often listed under "Unknown Devices").
- Right-click the device and select Update driver.
- Choose Browse my computer for driver software.
- Click Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer.
- Click Have Disk… and navigate to the folder where you extracted the driver.
- Select android_winusb.inf and follow the prompts (ignore any unsigned driver warnings if necessary).

Open Command Prompt or PowerShell
- Execute the following command to install the binaries:
```
winget install Google.PlatformTools
```
Verify Installation
- Check ADB version:
```
adb version
```
- Check Fastboot version:
```
fastboot version
```

You're all set!

Keywords: Windows 10, Windows 11, Android, ADB, Fastboot, Google USB Driver, Platform Tools, winget, device driver, manual installation