Friday, January 4, 2019

How to remove redundant compatible device drivers on Windows 10?




I just experienced a failed video driver installation for Intel HD Graphics driver on Windows 10.



The failed ones are still shown as the compatible hardware. See below:



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I have rolled back to the old 10.18.15. But I don't want to keep the 20.19.xx ones. So how to remove them?


Answer



You can remove the old drivers with pnputil.exe





  • run pnputil -e > C:\drivers.txt



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  • open the file drivers.txt and look which .inf file is associated with
    the driver you want to remove


  • run pnputil.exe -d oem.inf



This removes the driver correctly. If this is too complicated, you can use the tool DriverStore Explorer [RAPR]




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Click on enumerate, select the driver and click on Delete Package.



If you want to export your currently drivers you can use DISM



DISM /Online /Export-Driver /Destination:C:\destpath

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