"Suppose that the timestamp on the driver matched the build release date. If there is still a tie, then the one with the highest file version number is chosen" And if more than one driver provides a perfect match, then the one with the most recent timestamp is chosen. If a driver provides a perfect match to the hardware ID, then it becomes a top candidate. "When the system looks for a driver to use for a particular piece of hardware, it ranks them according to various criteria. In a 2017 blog post, Microsoft explains that using older dates is intentional as it enables Windows to pick the latest driver when multiple drivers are found for the same hardware device. It is even more confusing because three drivers have dates specifying they were created in 1968, 17 years before Windows 1.0 was first released.
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