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Installing New Drivers
Published by asa_sniper
05-24-2006
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Most of the Pc world go on and update there drivers on top of driver on top of drivers. Not knowing that in the long run and somtimes in the short run this can lead to trouble.

We all know ATI and Nvidia come out with new drivers faster than Microsoft can pacth the pacth that was supposed to be pacthed.

When installin new (we will just mention video drivers here) drivers they go to the windows folder and there own individual folders. Yet if you take a look you will see all the old drivers as well.

I have long suggested you clean the old drivers out first then installin the new drivers.

Here is a usefull free, spyware free program that does it automaticly with very little keyboard punhing involved for the user. All you have to do is make sure you pick the right drivers albeit ATI Nvidia or Soundblaster etc.

Use the program DriverCleaner reboot and install the new drivers. Yes it is as simple as its read. Hope this helps you out..

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By Scouse on 05-24-2006
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Hey asa,

Surely it's a good idea to keep older drivers though? Any problems with new drivers, and you can just 'roll back' to the previous ones?
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By asa_sniper on 05-25-2006
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Good question Scouse. I guess I should have thought a little longer. By putting the drivers on a cd. Rollback is good for most but you can run into problems if the newer drivers keep trying to take over. Does not happen much but does happen. But I think the main point of it was dont have 5 or 10 older drivers sitting in the same folder. Since the Video card companies are coming out with so many drivers lately they can add up lol.
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By sweets on 09-20-2006
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Thanks but the link you provided for the Driver Cleaner no longer works, 9/20/06
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By joe5 on 09-21-2006
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Thanks Sweets.

Here is a working link:

DriverCleaner.net Driver Cleaner Professional Edition

And I'll edit the link in the first post.
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