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Is there a way to manually uninstall drivers?

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Antoneo

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In Windows XP, is there a way to manually uninstall a driver for a device? I don't mean using the Device Manager. Say, I have printer drivers installed. But I want to, for whatever reason, uninstall them, what can I do? I'd like to do what the "uninstall driver program" does manually. Or is this impossible?

Also, can I remove what driver or hardware is registered with my system? I have a Highpoint RAID driver that keeps starting up with my computer and I'd like to get rid of it.
 
anything is possible
first removing a device in the device manager only removes the the Hardware listing in the registry
it doesn't not remove the drivers.

I know this isn't you're question but using system restore can come in handy when uninstall is unavailable.

To answer your question
you'd just need to have
or more to the point
know the name of the inf file that installed the drivers
or in the case of printers the drivers and software

Inf files have all the info you need.



 
Yeah system restore won't work when the hardware (RAID controller) was installed a year ago and many updates have taken place since 😉. I stopped using the RAID controller when it went beserk on me.

Thanks for the INF file tip, I guess I just remove those registry entries and delete the INF file I'm set?
 
you have to look for the files listed in the INF file as well
or if the hardware is still listed in the device manager you can use the driver details button


 
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