How to uninstall your current display drivers. Last updated: March 1. How to uninstall your current display drivers. Sorry, but no Vista info yet. Unfortunately, Microsoft changed things in Vista and I'm not currently.
So, I have no experience uninstalling display drivers under. Vista. But from what I've read, the . There's more than. Vista version of add/remove but the one which works for. That. should bring up the new version of the add/remove window.
Then click the. display driver to select it as described below in. If you install new drivers over the old ones, parts of. You can usually. install new ones over old ones without getting into trouble. But when things. go wrong, it may not be the least bit obvious what is causing the problem. It. causes misery often enough that there are specialized programs like. Sweeper and ATI's Catalyst.
That way, if something goes. You should always have. This should always be the first method you try.
In Windows 9. 5, 9. ME, select the. .
Then for all versions of Windows, find the entry. The entry is usually the name of the. GPU on. your display adapter followed by . Then just follow the prompts and remove the. You will then be asked to restart Windows. But sometimes NVIDIA display drivers.
Driver files should always be uninstalled before updating to newer drivers or when removing an older NVIDIA card and replacing it with a newer card. Uninstall Windows drivers. Drivers in Windows are very easy to uninstall. If the driver came as part of an installed software package (typically for printers and.
This version appears because NVIDIA. They also make motherboard chipsets which means that. NVIDIA driver which can be removed in. If you see something like .
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Those are motherboard chipset drivers. In the case shown. The uninstall utility removes. ATI control panel or ATI catalyst control center, the ATI display driver.
ATI demos, and the uninstall utility itself. This utility is the easiest. ATI software. Just select the uninstall utility, click.
You probably also have either the . First uninstall the . You will be prompted to. Then uninstall the . In this example, both drivers are installed. Radeon 9. 70. 0 Pro video card. Both drivers are listed even if you're only using.
You should uninstall both of them. If you have any other ATI. You'll. just have to navigate their labarynthine website on your own. Start. here and click the . If a drop- down menu appears when you move the. Look in the. search results for the . You can also have.
In cases like that, you can uninstall the driver in the . This approach only uninstalls the display driver itself and not any. To use this method, open the .
Select the . Then click the . This kind of display driver does not need to be uninstalled. It doesn't hurt to uninstall it, but it isn't necessary. To uninstall the driver, right- click it and then select. The Radeon 9. 70.
Pro shown above has two monitor outputs. You should. uninstall the driver for both outputs. Select the . Then click . This. tells Windows to load up a generic display driver which also unloads your.
Unfortunately. sometimes things go wrong. Perhaps you forgot to uninstall your old drivers. Whatever the cause, you may have parts of leftover display drivers. You can use a program.
Sweeper to try to clean out leftover drivers. It's a free program which. ATI and NVIDIA display drivers for Windows 2. Windows XP, and. Windows Vista. Most people don't run this kind of program unless they are having. You should always uninstall your display. Driver Sweeper. It is.
It just gets rid of things which may be left over. What follows is a general description of how to use. Driver Sweeper. The program contains help information which you should read.
Driver Sweeper to clean things up. The help information may. If you can't uninstall. But when your system. Cancel out of that if you're given the choice. If you can't cancel. The goal here is to get into safe mode with only the default VGA.
Windows 2. 00. 0, XP, and Vista sometimes install drivers for you anyway so you need. Once you are in safe mode disable any anti- virus scanner. Driver Sweeper. Don't select . Once you've clicked on the. Then the selected driver will show. If you've selected the wrong one then. Once the. . It will ask if you want to continue before cleaning.
A progress bar below the . It usually goes by pretty.
But if that uninstall had problems or. If you had. an uninstall problem, then when you reboot you should go look in . There probably won't be anything but if there is, then try to. You should also go into the . After Driver Sweeper runs they may show up as. Uninstall them as described above.
There may. be one or more reboots to go through this tidying up process. Your goal is to. eliminate any signs of the old display drivers or supporting programs like.