Drivers for the Realtek RTL8168 Network chipset can be download below on dedicated page for their versions, these drivers covers many of variations that are in the RTL81xx series. Most modern versions of Windows will likely have generic drivers built-in and may install the device not requiring the drivers below. Drivers are for Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7 on both x64 (64-bit) and x86 (32-bit) versions of Windows.
Realtek RTL8168 Drivers are contain inside a .zip archive this can be download using the links below and saved to a location that can be easily accessed. This archive for example Realtek-Lan-Driver.zip can be extracted using Windows built-in extract option (Right click extract) Inside the extracted folder there will be a setup.exe file, run this as an administrator and the process of installing the drivers is quick and automated. You will be given the chance to restart your computer at the end of installation (fig.1).
