Driver Cleaner Utility?

[Bokteelo]

Does anybody know of a user friendly free driver cleaning utility? I've tried DH Driver Cleaner or something, Driver Magician, etc, and didn't know how to work any of them properly, I'm afraid of removing the incorrect drivers and screwing something up.

Driver Cleaner Professional 1.5 had a noob-friendly interface, where all I had to do was press scan and it'd find drivers I didn't need. Ended up with around 200 unused files that might be causing the issue I've been having which can be found here. But Driver Cleaner Pro 1.5 is a commercial software that requires $$!

 

[erocker]

Driver Sweeper at Guru3d works very well. Highly recommended.

 

[kenkickr]

Driver Sweeper at Guru3d works very well. Highly recommended.

+1. Forgot to mention it's...FREE

 

[Bokteelo]

Thank you, I'm going to try it now.

Edit: How exactly is this used? I can't seem to figure out what I should and shouldn't remove... >_>

Excuse me, noobie passing bye!

 

[alexp999]

Yeah driver Sweeper is the only one I found that actually works on X64 too

And I tick the box for the appropriate driver and let it delete everything!

 

[erocker]

Thank you, I'm going to try it now.

Edit: How exactly is this used? I can't seem to figure out what I should and shouldn't remove... >_>

Excuse me, noobie passing bye!

What drivers are you looking to uninstall?

 

[Bokteelo]

What drivers are you looking to uninstall?

Ya see, I've got no idea. After removing the mobo battery and resetting the CMOS, my computer no longer shuts off. I get a BSOD after Windows shuts down, error code 0xA. I'm guessing it's a driver problem, but I don't remember installing any drivers. I think I should remove the nVidia drivers from my onboard GPU and see what happens from there...

All info can be found here: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92202

 

[kenkickr]

Did you just get that 4870?

If you installed it without removing the Nvidia Display drivers I could see you having problems but it would be long before shutting down. Here some steps I'd recommend when removing drivers.

Uninstall through Normal Mode
Reboot into Safe Mode
Once in Safe Mode run Driver Sweeper and check the intended driver('s) your wanting to remove
Once they are clean restart back into Normal mode

 

[Bokteelo]

Did you just get that 4870?

If you installed it without removing the Nvidia Display drivers I could see you having problems but it would be long before shutting down. Here some steps I'd recommend when removing drivers.

Uninstall through Normal Mode
Reboot into Safe Mode
Once in Safe Mode run Driver Sweeper and check the intended driver('s) your wanting to remove
Once they are clean restart back into Normal mode

I've had the 4830 for like a month now, and everything was fine until I reset the CMOS. I figured out why my monitor wouldn't respond on startup, because my primary video adapter was set to PCI and not PCI-E. (Or that's what I think it is, computer can restart fine now, but I still get the BSOD.)

 

[kenkickr]

If your board has onboard GPU then when the CMOS reset, onboard GPU could have enabled since alot of boards will do that by default.

I think you have something running in the background. Go and grab hijackthis, http://download.cnet.com/Trend-Micro-HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.html, and try and post a report so we can see what's going on.

 

[Bokteelo]

If your board has onboard GPU then when the CMOS reset, onboard GPU could have enabled since alot of boards will do that by default.

GPU-Z reads my GPU as the 4800 series. I went into the BIOS and set the adapter to PCI-E. I think that fixed any problems that might've occured. Still, I'll uninstall the drivers.

Edit: Okay BAD idea. I removed ALL nVidia drivers including the ethernet drivers, and I couldn't go online. I had to run a system restore to the 22nd.

 

[kenkickr]

When removing drivers off of a nvidia equiped motherboard you can select which driver to remove instead of removing all of them.

 

[Bokteelo]

When removing drivers off of a nvidia equiped motherboard you can select which driver to remove instead of removing all of them.

Thanks, I did a rollback and it no longer gives me the option of selecting what to remove. It only says that it will remove the Ethernet drivers and everything connected to it, so I just denied. I'm going to remove all ATi drivers now and reinstall them.