What's the Best way to remove Graphics Drivers???

[Vlad Drac]

Hi all

Does anyone still bother using Driver Cleaner to remove all traces of old Graphics drivers or does Windows 7 do a good enough job its self at uninstalling an old driver???
I hardly ever bother changing drivers at all these days but I've got a new GTX 680 coming on Tuesday ( hopefully ).

 

[Rusty0611]

Good enough unless you run into issues and then you can try other things. For the majority of people an uninstall using the built in uninstall facility is fine.

 

[opethdisciple]

Good enough unless you run into issues and then you can try other things. For the majority of people an uninstall using the built in uninstall facility is fine.

+1.

Before I put my 670 in to my new PC (in sig) I tried it in my old system which had a 5870 in there.

All I did was uninstall all drivers, rebooted, deleted all driver related folders in programs files/x64, turn off.

Take out old card, put new card in, and then installed new drivers.

No need for driver sweeper.

 

[arc@css]

I agree with the above two posters. Too often people make it more complicated than it needs to be.

 

[Vlad Drac]

Thanks for the replies.
I cant really be bothered faffing around with things like Driver Cleaner any more.

 

[Tonester0011]

Too much hassle, plug and play is the way.

 

[gurusan]

Going from nvidia to nvidia I wouldn't bother uninstalling anything.

 

[spankingtexan]

From 285 to 680, oh boy, are you in for a treat.

 

[shankly1985]

I un-install with control panel, then restart once booted up I run driver sweeper remove the left overs, it ask to restart again then I install the new drivers.