How do I force a driver install? Vista tells me the most recent driver is installed

[Arkitech]

I have a wireless Realtek card (8185) that I'm attempting to update with a newer driver (10/09). The old driver (2006) does'nt seem to want to be uninstalled. When I go into device manager and select update driver and point it to the new one, Vista tells me that the most up to date driver is already installed. I tried to uninstall the card a couple of times (through device manager) but when the card is detected again, Vista immediately installs the old driver. I also tried looking for the old driver to delete it but I could'nt find the directory of where it resides.

Any clue on how I can force Vista to accept the new driver?

 

[nsafreak]

Bring up the properties page for the device on in the Device Manager. Select Uninstall Driver. There should be an option to remove all of the driver files when doing the install. Do that then install the new driver.

 

[Dahak]

can try update driver from device manager -> Update Driver - Browse my computer for driver, Let me pick from a list of driver on my disk , click have disk and point to your vista driver and it should take it.

Also the realtek installer should install it automatically as well