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| 09-24-2010 | |
| | Re: Uninstall Device and Device Driver Brink, just one thing that I have never been able to work out on my own!: If I have an (ATI) graphics card and driver, and I uninstall this graphics device from Device Manager, will I get a black screen, or a Vista default driver? Thanks so much! |
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| 09-24-2010 | |
| | Re: Uninstall Device and Device Driver Hello Niemiro, If you uninstall the device (graphics card) in Device Manager, it will just auto detect it again at restart and reinstall it using the latest driver you have installed. If you uninstall the device and driver, then it will still auto detect and reinstall it, but it will use the default drivers that came with Vista. Hope this helps, Shawn |
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| 09-24-2010 | |
| | Re: Uninstall Device and Device Driver Hello Niemiro, If you uninstall the device (graphics card) in Device Manager, it will just auto detect it again at restart and reinstall it using the latest driver you have installed. If you uninstall the device and driver, then it will still auto detect and reinstall it, but it will use the default drivers that came with Vista. Hope this helps, Shawn |
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| 09-24-2010 | |
| | Re: Uninstall Device and Device Driver You're most welcome Niemiro. |
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| 02-23-2012 | |
| | Re: Uninstall Device and Device Driver Thanks for the info, but How do I prevent Vista from automatically installing the generic driver after I uninstall my driver? I have a sigmatel audio device on a Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop. I tried: 1. deleting the Dell/Driver/Audio folder 2. Uninstalling the Sigmatel driver from add/remove programs 3. Uninstalling the driver from device manager. Everytime I rebooted, vista installed the generic driver and I need a complete uninstall so that I would be able to Install a certain version of sigmatel that has input monitoring. |
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| 02-23-2012 | |
| | Re: Uninstall Device and Device Driver Hello Moonmadness, and welcome to Vista Forums. You could set your Windows Update settings to Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them. You would have to manually selected and install Windows Updates that you want afterwards every 2nd Tuesday of the month, but you will no longer have drivers automatically installed from Windows Updates anymore. Windows Update - Windows Automatic Updating Hope this helps, Shawn |
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| 02-24-2012 | |
| | Re: Uninstall Device and Device Driver Hi Shawn, Thanks for your reply, Eventually I managed to do what I needed by installing the SigmaTel driver right after uninstalling the vista native driver, that is, without rebooting in between, so Vista didn't get the chance to reinstall it automatically. This is even easier than what you suggested :-) but thanks! |
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| 02-24-2012 | |
| | Re: Uninstall Device and Device Driver That's great news Moonmadness. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted. |
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