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Windows 10 and cleanly updating Nvidia display drivers

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supastar1568

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Hey All,

Quick question, and forgive me if this has been answered elsewhere. I installed Windows 10 last night and of course up first boot it spends about 10 minutes installing the Nvidia driver that is packaged with Windows (353.62 I think).

However, I want to upgrade to the latest and greatest Nvidia display driver. Typically, in the past, I would go to Add/Remove programs and uninstall the existing drivers, and install the new one. Easy as pie.

In Windows 10, once I uninstall the existing driver it immediately starts downloading it and installing it in the background...which gives me an error message when I'm trying to install the newer driver. Even with automatic updates in the system settings disabled beforehand, it still wants to get 353.62 probably cause it is packaged with windows.

From what I've read from the Nvidia site, the best way to do it for Windows 10 is to let 353.62 install, then right click on the Nvidia control panel and install the new driver from there. Selecting "custom" and "clean install" of course.

Is that my best bet? Anything else?

Thanks.
 
yep just grab the latest driver from nvidia's website and click custom install then check the box for a clean install.
 
If you want, you can download DDU from Guru3D which will completely uninstall the driver and enable a setting in the registry that will stop W10 from auto installing.

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

After extracting, click on the application....hit 'yes' to reboot into safe mode (the program will do this for you). Once in safe mode the program will load and then just hit the 'clean and restart' tab. A message about setting the auto gpu driver download will prompt...hit 'ok'....let the program do it's thing and reboot into windows. Then install the new driver.
 
n0x1ous said:
yep just grab the latest driver from nvidia's website and click custom install then check the box for a clean install.
Click to expand...

This.

Longer answer: This will reset all the registry entries and anything of importance and clear out the shader cache. Apparently the only thing that can remain from previous installs are custom profiles (non-nvidia ones) which have applications added to them[1].

[1] According to a guru3d forum post.
 
Unplugging the network cable before uninstalling/installing would probably get around windows automatically installing drivers or changing that auto driver installation setting in Win10
 
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