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I have installed many inf-modified audio drivers for Conexant 20585 to make the stereo mix appear. (Failed though..)

And now there are so many installed audio drivers in the system driver store.

So, How do I delete the modified/unsigned drivers from my computer? enter image description here

Summary of the following discuss

  1. I want to delete the unused/modified/unsigned drivers, just keep the one in use and the signed ones.

  2. I expect an easy automatic way to find the unsigned drivers listed in the figure.

  3. I don't want to read the thousand-lines inf file to manually remove the driver files.

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  • Go to Device Manager and uninstall them.
    – TomJ
    Commented Apr 11, 2014 at 3:21
  • @Tom That won't work. I also use devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices to show hidden installed devices. The problem here is all the drivers installed have the same hardware ID, so only one entry will be listed in device management.
    – lesca
    Commented Apr 11, 2014 at 3:25
  • Go find them in C:\Windows\inf. Read the inf to find associated files. Delete files and inf.
    – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007
    Commented Apr 11, 2014 at 3:26
  • The best way. If the driver is being used. Remove the device and select the option to delete the driver when you do. Its not clear "why" this isn't an option.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Apr 11, 2014 at 3:31
  • @techie007 This doesn't meet my requirements. 1)Only INF is deleted but the rest of driver files are still there. 2)The inf file name is renamed from the original one. New names is like oemXX.inf, and it's not easy to find all of them.
    – lesca
    Commented Apr 11, 2014 at 3:33

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Use pnputil -e to enumerate all installed drivers and look for the OEM infs which belong to the drivers you want to remove. Now use pnputil -d OEMNumber.inf to delete the drivers.

If you want a GUI, use this tool to remove them:

screenshot of Driver Store Explorer

Run it, select "Enumerate" to get all drivers, select which ones you want to be killed and click on "Delete package".

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