ATI Catalyst Driver removal utility

[serialb]

Anybody know of a good utility to remove the previous installed ATI driver? I had a older version of Cat. & Control Panel but I wasn't able to remove them using the Add/Remove Program. It would just reinstall themselves upon startup.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Tetsuo]

I think the best one is called drivercleaner

 

[xcript]

Link

 

[serialb]

That Cleaner looks good, thanks. But I still have trouble getting rid of the Control Panel... Anyway to manually get rid of it?

 

[muzz]

Originally posted by: serialb
That Cleaner looks good, thanks. But I still have trouble getting rid of the Control Panel... Anyway to manually get rid of it?

Ya.. control panel, add/delete programs......... if it leaves anything go and delete the rest manually...

Not an issue.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: serialb
That Cleaner looks good, thanks. But I still have trouble getting rid of the Control Panel... Anyway to manually get rid of it?

Did you manually uninstall the Control Panel *before* the driver in Add/Remove programs? If not, you should do it first. Then uninstall the drivers. Then run Driver Cleaner 2.0. Then check the registry to make sure every "ATI" folder has been deleted from "HKEY LOCAL MACHINE".

 

[oldfart]

I just do add/remove programs, do the control panel, then the drivers. The Cat 3.8's also have an ATi software uninstaller.

 

[NEVERwinter]

there's a guide to clean ATI driver on www.rage3d.com Forum > Driver Issues

 

[Auric]

You guys are scary.

See Cat-Uninstaller.

 

[clicknext]

Originally posted by: Auric
You guys are scary.

See Cat-Uninstaller.

I don't see why they can't make it so that the drivers are cleaned out when you uninstall them like any normal person would.

 

[Auric]

Indeed by jove but the Add/Remove proggies uninstaller does remove all drivers and likewise the control panel one. They do, however, leave behind registry entries. I can only presume this has not actually been a significant problem and is only of concern to anal freaks like us because ATI only made the stand-alone installer at users' request. In any case, it does take care of everthing in one go so is easier to use and more foolproof.

 

[1ManArmY]

So how good is this ATI Cat uninstaller? Just curious because I thought about reverting back to cat 3.7.

 

[ZoNtO]

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=6bc9ce24ea1c6e6c3a005582c7c529de&threadid=33656771

 

[1ManArmY]

Has anyone supplemented the cat uninstaller vs the add remove programs yet to determine which method is better?

 

[1ManArmY]

Nevermind this new utility was the bomb it removed every ATI file out of the registry. I used the cat-uninstaller to remove catalyst 3.8, rebooted into safe mode then used Driver Cleaner to clean ATI files and then went to use regcleaner but no ATI files were found.