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    If you need to remove old driver, cleanly before new install try thi

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Dagra, Sep 21, 2008.

  1. Dagra

    Dagra Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi All,

    I bought my first notebook in 1985. It was a Packard Bell, which had a white letter on black display. DOS was the OS, while I replaced it, it finally died in 2001!

    It would be nice to get that kind of life, outta a notebook, but OSes, high power Apps, cause us to upgrade every 3/4 years, if not sooner.

    Updating Drivers is always important. Whether you have issues with a particular set, or just want to update, to stay current, removing the old drivers without leaving parts of them, to clog your OS drive, & REG
    is hard to do, unless you are a high level IT User who likes to mess with the REG & OS areas of files.

    I was having a particularly hard time getting rid of Creative & ATI drivers, from a notebook, and stumbled onto this:

    http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1655

    Guru3d has created it, and it gets rid of ALL the major Corp's drivers, down to the little files, and has saved me many times from ripping some hair out!
    It was the only way I was able to get my X-fi Extreme 54 express card, working correctly, in my Dell 6400...

    Give it a try, if you need to upgrade drivers & don't want the old ones, or
    more important, if the old ones must be removed to install the newer one.

    Dagra
     
    Dagra, Sep 21, 2008
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