Then select ‘Update drivers’ to launch the Hardware Update wizard.
Now, to install the modified Google USB drivers: go to ‘Control Panel’ > ‘Device Manager’ and right-click on your device’s name.
How-to-Geek has a pretty good explanatory piece on how to do it using two different methods. To bypass this, you will need to temporarily disable Driver Signature Verification by enabling Test Mode. Once the file has been modified, the “Driver Signature Enforcement” feature of Windows (11/10/8.1/8) will prevent you from installing the modified USB driver. The android_winusb.inf file is signed by Google and making changes to it (although intentional, such as we did here) will directly affects its digital signature. Once you have added the lines under the proper section (depending on your PC’s architecture), save the file and exit. Xiaomi Mi A3 %SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_D00D %SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_D00D&REV_0100 %CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_D00D&MI_01 In that case, the lines should look like the following:
In our personal experience, downloading the ZIP package directly is easier than using the Android Studio. The former method, on the contrary, will require you to manually check if a newer driver version is available and download it again. The latter gives an added benefit, that is the SDK Manager will automatically notify you when a newer version is available. Or, you can use the SDK Manager in the Android Studio to download it.
You can either download the Google USB Driver ZIP file manually.
Now, there are two different ways/methods to download the USB driver on Windows.