driver remover

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jona

Somewhere along my reading of this ng, mention was made of
freeware that can detect and remove "old" and unused/obsolete
drivers still on a (windows) system. I forget it's name though.

Any help would be appreciated.
TIA
jona.
 
Lee Marsh said:
jona formulated on Friday :

Driver Cleaner ?

http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/
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Uhmmm, that one is dedicated to ATi and nVidia drivers only. I'm sure it'll
be of use some day, but for now I'm trying to remove a twain driver (VistaScan)
that has absolutely no unistall capability. I'm almost positive it is conflicting with
subsequent twain drivers I've installed where I'm having problems with the
device.
Thanks for your input anyway.
Cheers
jona.
 
Doesn't that install some programs along with the drivers? If so, won't
uninstalling the programs uninstall the associated drivers? Can you use a
startup manager in order to remove the driver?
 
Ceg said:
Doesn't that install some programs along with the drivers? If so, won't
uninstalling the programs uninstall the associated drivers?
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Yes, software is also installed, and no, the software portion of the driver
also does not have an uninstall. That might suggest that the software is
'stand alone' and one of those system-monitor-before-and-after-installation
programs would have been helpful, but it's too late now.
Can you use a startup manager in order to remove the driver?
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There is no evidence that that (or any other) twain driver is loaded on
startup. Windows just creates twain folders in it's directory which I
assume are called upon on use only. I don't think those individually
created twain folders contain *all* the relevant and associated files
though.

If all else fails I can always "reinstall" the suspect driver and software, this
time monitoring where which files are created/copied. I was kinda
hopeing to avoid that though.

Thanks for the input.
cheers
jona
 
Button bashing in practice for another round of Daley Thompson's
Unfortunately, "Not for WinME, WinNT, Win2000 or later."
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Sorry, my bad.I confused it with another file. As a 98se(GLX,
not GTi) (l)user I need all those old/obsolete files or Windows won't
run ;-)
Annoyances.org is helpful.
There is a freeware-specific search engine/bot/plugin that would
probably aid finding such an application. Ironically, said search
engine/bot/plugin would also help me find wheretf I found said search
engine/bot/plugin as I've forgotten...
In 98, it's more a case of the system looking for things that
aren't there (Yes, please look for my iomega/zip/jazz/tape drive every
time you switch on, But please accept that it was only ever fitted to a
different machine, 30 miles away), and while I have 98ultralite (Windows
is now so small Start>Find>FilesOrFolders looks elsewhere) following a
long period of research, numerous backups, setups etc.involving lots of
tears I have more or less what I want until I finally turn into a
full-blown lunix..
But the applications (firewall, anti-virus, etc.) on startup
really slow the system - but as our first tasks are collecting
email,info,etc, - it's an acceptable trade-off. AMD Duron 800, and I've
just cranked the 486sx/33 over - once the valves warm up I'll see how
much dos she cannae take captain....
 
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