6. An apparatus for interacting with a computer to install device drivers, the apparatus comprising: a processor and computer memory; means for presenting via a computer a graphical representation of a text markup language document providing control for installation of device drivers for the computer to a user, wherein the graphical representation includes at least one interactive user control for activating a text hyperlink; means for automatically determining hardware installed on the computer, an operating system under which the graphical representation and hyperlink are operating, and configuration settings of the computer; means for automatically creating and dynamically updating the hyperlink based on the determination of the hardware installed on the computer, the operating system under which the graphical representation and hyperlink are operating, and the configuration settings of the computer; means for receiving an activated hypertext link from the user, wherein the hypertext link is associated with hypertext link attributes by the text markup language document comprising a target and a uniform resource locator; means for determining in the computer whether the target is a request to load a device driver; means for extracting in the computer a device identification and an operating system when the target is the request to load the device driver; means for searching an initialization file for a reference to the device identification and the operating system; means for automatically copying device related files into file directories referenced by the operating system; and means for merging device related files into the operating system registry; and means for performing at least one of automatically obtaining and passing device identifier data corresponding to the computer to obtain a resource matching the computer; and automatically executing one or more patch programs in a queue of the patch programs and wherein patch programs are removed from the queue after execution and wherein the computer is rebooted after each execution, when the target is not the request to load the device driver.
10. The apparatus of claim 6 , further comprising a means for prompting the user to reboot the computer after copying the device related files into file directories referenced by the operating system.