- #HOW TO PROPERLY UNINSTALL NVIDIA DRIVERS INSTALL#
- #HOW TO PROPERLY UNINSTALL NVIDIA DRIVERS DRIVERS#
- #HOW TO PROPERLY UNINSTALL NVIDIA DRIVERS DRIVER#
At the end select yes to restart and finish.Ħ.b(For older drivers)It may tell you your install an old version, click yes and it will uninstall your current drivers.
#HOW TO PROPERLY UNINSTALL NVIDIA DRIVERS DRIVER#
If the driver isn't WHQL (Tested by Microsoft) you'll see a warning, press continue. (yep just a single period) That will extract them to your current folder, in a folder called ĥ.Open the folder then the setup folder, find the setup.exe, launch that (see below is there is no setup.exe.Ħ.a(For new drivers) Just follow the prompts, there self explanatory.
#HOW TO PROPERLY UNINSTALL NVIDIA DRIVERS DRIVERS#
Guru3D drivers will bring open a dialog asking you where to extract. Step by step guide to updating/installing new drivers:Ģ.Save them where you like, Your desktop is a good spot.Ĥ.If these are official nvidia driver's, skip to step 6. Note your refresh is wrong, re-install your monitor driver and re-run your refresh rate fix. You likely only see a few files removed if and some default XP inf's. Run driver cleaner, select nvidia, start. Select No if you have allot profile you want to keep. It will ask if you want to remove you profiles, select yes. Find nVidia driver's, select uninstall ONLY the following: click display. Click Start - Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs.
In this case you could try uninstalling manually and Driver Cleaner.
Deleting them is OK, but not recommended unless 5mb of space is very important to you. The other files it may find are default Windows XP drivers and are necessary for an auto install of your display driver should your system ever crash and need to be restored. After an uninstall, reboot running Driver Cleaner will only find 3 files, the main display driver files, these are always replaced by an upgrade and thus not needed. nVidia's uninstall has been updated and correctly removes all files and asks you if you want to remove old registry settings, like profiles. What about Driver Cleaner, Should I run that every time? Also nVidia's installer is more advanced now and will tell you when it's necessary to uninstall your current drivers and do so automatically when you go to install, for example when you are downgrading driver, since some new files may not exist in older versions. Then when should I uninstall my current drivers? All games will once again run in 60hz and your maximum refresh rates/resolutions will be wrong and you will need to re-run Refresh Force. Upon reboot XP will detect a new video card and monitor, and install plug and play drivers, doubling the cruft in your registry. Due to a bug in Windows XP, if you uninstall your video drivers manually, you will also lose you monitor driver. For the average user, this will cause more problems then it solves. Should I uninstall my current driver's every time I wish to upgrade? The readme included with the driver is no longer updated and not relevant to current drivers. Shouldn't I just follow the directions in the readme? This guide covers Windows 2000/XP and nVidia Forceware, however ATI Catalyst drivers are mostly the same (the sticky here is a couple years old/outdated, so maybe this one can replace it)