Quite often, the user needs to perform not only the installation, but also the removal of drivers. The goal of both procedures, despite their opposite, is to provide better computer performance. There are two most common situations that force you to clean the system of obsolete components.
The first is that long-established elements of unused devices clog the registry. Thus, the system slows down, various failures and conflicts may occur. To prevent this from happening, they also remove drivers.
The second reason is that the appearance of new drivers requires high-quality cleaning of the system from old ones. Otherwise, a version conflict can lead to unstable operation of both individual devices and the entire system. Most often this situation occurs when innovations for nvidia and ati graphics accelerators appear.
To uninstall drivers that are no longer useful, they usually go to the device manager. To open it, right-click on the “My Computer” icon and select “Properties”, “Equipment” in the list that opens. Then find the appropriate device. To access the management of its drivers, you must select the desired item, and then press the right mouse button. In the window that opens, select "Properties", the "Driver" tab. There you can get all the information regarding the version, installation date, rollback, etc.
If you need to remove the nvidia and ati drivers, then you can use the familiar algorithm for many users to clean the system of unwanted programs. For these purposes, go to the Start menu, Control Panel. Then you need to select "add or remove programs", and in the formed list find and remove the appropriate application, for example, "display driver" (display driver). After removing the component, you must reboot the system. Now she will be ready to install a new version of the driver package.
In cases where this does not help, you must completely remove the ati or nvidia drivers . To do this, open the Start menu and enter the command “regedit” in the line “Run”. As a result, the "Registry Editor" opens, in which you can perform various actions with this important component of the system. To find the remaining old and unnecessary drivers, you must activate a special option by pressing the key combination on the keyboard "Cntrl + F". Then enter the name of the driver element that needs to be found and deleted. For example, "nvidia."
After confirming the command, a registry search will be performed. The system will find and show all the directories and parameters of the drivers of this manufacturer, which are deleted by pressing the "Delete" key. It should be noted that this path is more suitable for experienced users, as it requires certain basic knowledge. Otherwise, you can accidentally uninstall drivers of the same manufacturer, but for other devices.
An alternative would be to use special programs that will help to completely clean the system from the selected item. Such software is easy to find and download on the Internet. It is distributed, as a rule, free of charge, and has a simple intuitive interface that will help to easily remove drivers.