swapping nvidia vid card drivers

[PuterRookie]

Is there a simple way to switch drivers. I know I am missing a step somewhere but I am having a hard time doing this. I D/L a driver from nvidia, put it in My Downloads folder, then uninstall old driver and reboot. When windows starts it asks if it should find a driver and so on. I say no, I will find it myself. Trouble is I can't find it in said folder. Why can't a person just D/L a driver and install it!! As my name states, I am a dreaded newb.

System Specs:
Windows XP Home w/SP1
EPoX 8RDA+
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (non-oc)
Asus GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64 meg
Maxtor 40 gig HDD
Viewsonic E70f+ monitor

 

[Schadenfroh]

save it to the root directory, log ins may change my document type stuff and disable any anti virus you have running.

 

[Mem]

Is there a simple way to switch drivers. I know I am missing a step somewhere but I am having a hard time doing this. I D/L a driver from nvidia, put it in My Downloads folder, then uninstall old driver and reboot. When windows starts it asks if it should find a driver and so on. I say no, I will find it myself. Trouble is I can't find it in said folder. Why can't a person just D/L a driver and install it!! As my name states, I am a dreaded newb.

You can just download(if upgrading Nvidia to a new Nvidia driver) it and install over the top by clicking the exe.file,I`ve done this many of times including yesterday with no problems.

If you want to do a clean driver install then try
Driver Cleaner 1.4 , pretty easy to use.

A couple of more points,other branded drivers like Gainward etc should be removed first before trying or installing nvidia drivers.

In general with Nvidia drivers when upgrading to newer Nvidia version,it will tell you when you run the exe.file if you need to remove the old ones first,I`ve only had to do this from a DX8 driver(40.72) to DX9(43.45) .

Anti-virus should be disabled before installing any driver.