Removing Hardware Drivers

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Over the years with XP, I have had several monitors, printers, video
cards and so forth. When I replaced them, some I uninstalled via the
device manager and some I didn't and that leads to the questions. Did
uninstalling through the device manager remove the drivers?
And for those I didn't uninstall first, are the drivers still out there
on the hard disk? I expect so. If so, that leaves the question, how do
identify and remover the drivers for hardware I no longer have?

Thanks for your thoughts on this.
 
Jack Gillis said:
Over the years with XP, I have had several monitors, printers, video
cards and so forth. When I replaced them, some I uninstalled via the
device manager and some I didn't and that leads to the questions. Did
uninstalling through the device manager remove the drivers?
And for those I didn't uninstall first, are the drivers still out there
on the hard disk? I expect so. If so, that leaves the question, how do
identify and remover the drivers for hardware I no longer have?

Thanks for your thoughts on this.
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Currently Windows has no standard way to delete all stuff left out after removing drivers; users are supposed just to live with
it.
The thorough cleanup procedure was posted not long ago in the drivers newsgroup.
--PA
 
Pavel A. said:
Currently Windows has no standard way to delete all stuff left out
after removing drivers; users are supposed just to live with
it.
The thorough cleanup procedure was posted not long ago in the drivers
newsgroup.
--PA
Click to expand...

Thank you. I will hunt for it.
 
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