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    driversweeper

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by kraz30g, May 15, 2008.

  1. kraz30g

    kraz30g Notebook Deity

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    hi, for some reason when i load up driversweeper to get rid of my drivers right now, i bring teh nvidia display to the right side and click sweep and it asks me if i want to continue, i do so and it does "SOMETHING" but it definitely does not remove my display driver because its still installed.

    can anyone assist me? i need to remove this driver. i never had this problm before with this program, am i forgetting smoething?
     
    kraz30g, May 15, 2008
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  2. ScifiMike12

    ScifiMike12 Drinking the good stuff

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    I think you have to uninstall the driver first. :p

    *Add/Remove Programs*
     
    ScifiMike12, May 15, 2008
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  3. The Forerunner

    The Forerunner Notebook Virtuoso

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    Go to control panel. System, device manager and go to display. Click uninstall driver. Check delete driver software. Driversweeper is not to uninstall the driver but to remove traces of it in the registry. You can use ccleaner or any other registry cleaner for the same purpose.
     
    The Forerunner, May 15, 2008
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  4. The_Observer

    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

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    It mostly removes the traces from registry.
     
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  5. kraz30g

    kraz30g Notebook Deity

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    well i just ran driversweeper and this time it worked. i didnt do any uninstalling of the drivers manually through control panel. it appeard as though it removed teh old driver and i have the new one running now. should i redo the process by uninstalling through control panel first?
     
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  6. ScifiMike12

    ScifiMike12 Drinking the good stuff

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    Yes, I would.
     
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    Nirvana Notebook Prophet

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    I have a question about driver sweeper too. I try to use it to clean up my video driver, but it asked me for a XP Pro SP 3 CD. my sp3 was downloaded from MS, how the heck can i fix this?
     
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  8. ScifiMike12

    ScifiMike12 Drinking the good stuff

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    ^^ Don't worry about that. Just click cancel and it'll replace it.
     
    ScifiMike12, May 15, 2008
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