I am having a problem getting a specific device to work, and I am trying to start from square one by making sure there are absolutely no leftover files from driver installs on my system. Specifically I’m trying to get rid of the UC-Logic drivers for a Monoprice 10×6 tablet.
However, I have found copies of the driver files in the windows DriverStore\FileRepository. But windows will not let me delete any folders from that location.
The best info I have found so far is to use pnputil.exe, however, since the drivers are not currently installed, it is not listed as an inf file that I can remove.
I could, as a scorched earth policy, jump into OS X and just delete them from there, but I’m worried that this may cause me issues. I would much rather find the ‘proper’ way of doing it.
Answer
Don’t delete the files with the Explorer. remove the drivers correctly with pnputil.exe
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Open command prompt (
cmd.exe) as admin and runpnputil -e > C:\drivers.txt
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open the file drivers.txt and look which .inf file is associated with
the driver you want to remove - run
pnputil.exe -d oem<NUMBER>.inf
This removes the driver correctly. If this is too complicated, you can use the tool DriverStore Explorer [RAPR]
Click on enumerate, select the driver and click on Delete Package.
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Source : Link , Question Author : Charles Randall , Answer Author : magicandre1981
