Driver Sweeper 2.8.5 Released - 22/01/2011

[Nelly]

Version 2.8.5 - 22-01-11

Updated:

• Improved ATi - Display cleaning.
• Improved NVIDIA - Display cleaning.
• Improved Microsoft - Keyboard cleaning.

Fixed:

• Not able to restore all files and directories.
• Windows 7 Service Pack 1 issues.
• Backup size information not placed correctly after resizing main window.
• Empty border around the main window (Windows XP).

http://phyxion.net/Driver-Sweeper/Driver-Sweeper/Driver-Sweeper-285

 

[Nelly]

The main reason I have posted this, is because it fixes a major issue:

If you're using Driver Sweeper to clean up drivers on Windows 7, be aware that Driver Sweeper may prevent you from installing service packs. Driver Sweeper wipes Windows 7's built-in display drivers, which are considered as "system files". Service pack 1 and upcoming service packs run integrity check on system files, and if it detects any missing files – it won't let you install and display the following error message: "Service Pack Installation Cannot Continue (one or more system components that service pack requires are missing)" with error code of 0x800f0826.

If you're already a victim of this issue, check out the update below.

We recommend that you avoid automatic driver cleaners. If you would like to clean up driver data, we suggest that you do it manually from the registry editor. There is no need to delete files. But in fact, we also have a recommendation for vendors: Please provide proper uninstallers with your drivers, so there won't be any need for driver cleaners.

Update: We received a reply from the author of Driver Sweeper: "Since version 2.6.0, I think I added some entries from the DriverStore because ATi stores some settings files there. However, a few days ago I heard from some people not being able to install SP1 after running Driver Sweeper. I investigated the problem and found out that the installer checks for missing content from several directories. This is also the reason I released version 2.8.5 as quickly as possible. The entries required for SP1 are removed from the database so they will not be cleaned anymore.

Read more: http://www.ngohq.com/news/19259-beware-of-driver-sweeper-on-windows-7-a.html#ixzz1BzHnQYVR

Source

 

[Nelly]

Nice, here is the fix so that Service Pack 1 (when released) will install including RC. (no need to reinstall Windows 7!)

http://forum.phyxion.net/viewtopic.php?id=17

The info in the above will restore the system files that Windows 7 needs.

 

[Final8y]

Many of us have been saying for sometime that it deletes some important files & can even stop some ATI drivers installing depending on the system.
Hopefully it will wake some people up & some drivers are dependant on what's always in the registry for what CCC features are available on that system.

If a put 1.11a on a fresh OS image i don't get any of the new features but if i install it over the top of another driver i get MLAA, Tess , options ect....

 

[mrk]

nVidia users need not use this any more as nvidia driver installer has long since been updated to do a clean install when you run setup

 

[Neil79]

nVidia users need not use this any more as nvidia driver installer has long since been updated to do a clean install when you run setup

Well i was always told it only cleans up the profiles it doesn't do a full clean ?

Besides users like me who try different beta's out and go back if it isn't as good a full driver clean is always recommended

 

[JonnyGLC]

Same with ATi from what i can remember, programs like this are basically useless now since the graphics cards software developers started to implement clean install methods into their packages anyway

 

[mrk]

Well i was always told it only cleans up the profiles it doesn't do a full clean ?

Besides users like me who try different beta's out and go back if it isn't as good a full driver clean is always recommended

Not any more?

A clean install, when selected, is a clean install!

 

[mattjd]

Same with ATi from what i can remember, programs like this are basically useless now since the graphics cards software developers started to implement clean install methods into their packages anyway

Nope. ATI leaves behind lots of files in the system32 folder which runs in the background if you look at the processes in task manager.

I uninstalled CCC. Installed my new Nvidia graphics card with latest drivers, I noticed there was still some background processes with ATI software so i used this software and everything was gone. However Nvidia's clean install solution actually does remove all traces.