Hi there is in the w7 device manager (enabled hidden devices ) non-plug and play drivers , and there is a list of drivers , and i could uninstall from there but on w10 device manager (enabled hidden devices) there is not non-plug and play drivers , but i can see with autoruns the point is that uninstalling an antimalware/antivirus or firewall , leave drivers like for kaspersky some kaspersky antivirus drivers are updated , and there are the old left i can't uninstall with autoruns , is there a safe tool to do it? thanks
Hello, Something like DriverStore Explorer comes to mind. Actually i just ran it and i clicked "old drivers" and it marked several of old nvidia, Realtek, Samsung etc drivers. It might find those obsolete and old AV etc drivers too (or not). You can also use command line utilty called pnputil: pnputil -e (will list oem**.inf files on your system, where ** is a number) For example: pnputil -d oem61.inf should uninstall my McAfee networking drivers. Make a backup before testing these programs, if something goes wrong.
hi moredhelfinland yes, i agree with the backup , but driverstore explorer can uninstall them but it's strange that w10 does not include any tool to do it thanks
Did you tried force old drivers to appear trick described in this link? https://www.maketecheasier.com/remove-old-drivers-windows/
Another option you can try is type, "pnputil.exe -e" without the quotations from a command prompt with Admin Privileges. See if you can find the drivers you want to uninstall in the generated list. Then type, net stop "published driver name", without the quotations. Use the name of the driver from the list generated. Then type, sc delete "published driver name", without the quotations. Make a full image backup of your system before trying this, just in case you accidentally delete a driver required by Windows or some device on your system. Try this at your own risk!
