Isn´t this Driver Sweeper? https://www.guru3d.com/content-page/guru3d-dr … er-sweeper.html

I've been thinking about this problem too lately and it would be interesting to know how people handle it. I remember changing between Radeon and Nvidia being something that often required an OS reinstallation.

I was thinking of making a disk image right before I installed any graphic card drivers.

Ydee wrote on 2021-07-27, 17:37:

Isn´t this Driver Sweeper? https://www.guru3d.com/content-page/guru3d-dr … er-sweeper.html

Yes this is the first one I found (and probably the one I used back in XP times) but if you read carefully it says

"Driver Sweeper has been replaced with Display Driver Uninstaller. Download here."

and then in the requirements of this new software

"Requirement: Windows Vista SP2 up to Windows 10 2104 (21h1) (19042.xxx October 2020) (anything higher is at your own risk)"

So it's not compatible with XP

There is Driver Cleaner : https://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/driver … ofessional.html

AFAICR, I used it successfully a few times, but once my Windows installation got borked . Backups are good to have, as always .

I use Driver Cleaner 2.7, it works OK for me.

framebuffer wrote on 2021-07-27, 18:39:

So it's not compatible with XP

Of course, but I mean good old Driver Sweeper, which is still XP compatible - if You wish, here is, Sir:)

darry wrote on 2021-07-27, 19:38:

There is Driver Cleaner : https://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/driver … ofessional.html

AFAICR, I used it successfully a few times, but once my Windows installation got borked . Backups are good to have, as always .

Thanks will try it

Ydee wrote on 2021-07-28, 13:32:

framebuffer wrote on 2021-07-27, 18:39:

So it's not compatible with XP

Of course, but I mean good old Driver Sweeper, which is still XP compatible - if You wish, here is, Sir:)

ohh thank you very much! 😀)

I used often this :
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/dis … er-uninstaller/
for NVIDIA/AMD/Intel drivers cleanup and worked pretty well.

Hi,
I just wanted to report about my experience I had this week with Driver Sweeper 2.0.5 and Radeon drivers. I went from Catalyst 7.xx/Omega drivers all the way up to 14.4 Catalyst and then back to Catalyst 7.xx/Omega and then again all the way up to 14.4. Driver Sweeper seemed to work great as long as it's dealing with drivers that are older or more or less from around the date 2.0.5 was released, but from some Radeon drivers onwards it seemed to leave some stuff on the harddrive.

Display Driver Uninstaller has versions that are compatible with Xp (as shown also on the link somebody posted previously in the thread), is the software i use for this purpose and always had excellent results with it.