After uninstalling programs or installing new devices, drivers remain in the system to replace the old ones. Any driver, even if not used by the hardware, consumes system resources, which negatively affects performance.
Necessary
Driver sweeper
Instructions
Step 1
To quickly remove protective drivers, it is best to use third-party programs; standard Windows tools do not solve this problem at the proper level. There are many programs like Driver Cleaner, DriverMax or Driver Sweeper. All of them have quite rich functionality, with the help of them you can remove remnants of driver files from the system, as well as unnecessary keys in the Windows system registry. You can easily find these programs on the Internet. It is advisable to constantly have at hand such programs for cleaning the system, with the help of them you can avoid possible problems with overloading the system and installing new drivers.
Step 2
Download Driver Sweeper (it's free) and install it. Immediately after installation, install the Russian language, for this go to the Language tab and select the Russian item there. Then apply the settings by clicking the Apply button. The language is changed to Russian. In order to protect the system from deleting important drivers, open the "Backup" tab. Backup options allow you to restore both drivers and their shortcuts on the desktop. Click on "Start Backup". After that, go to the "Analysis and Cleaning" tab, the program will automatically scan the system, find the drivers and display them in the list in the window on the right.
Step 3
Highlight the drivers you want to get rid of and click the "Cleanup" button. In order to make sure that the program does not delete the necessary files, select the driver, click the "Analyze" button and you will see a list of files and registry keys that the program will delete along with the driver. For stable operation of the system, it is necessary to keep it clean, for this, clean the system from unused drivers, registry entries and other system junk at least once every 2-3 months.
