Windows optimization by useless device drivers clean up
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Windows optimization by useless device drivers clean up
Did you know that all the non present device drivers in Windows XP will be eating your computer resources unless you remove them. This article is going to help you to identify and remove useless drivers out of your system.
After any device driver installation Windows XP will be loading it each time your computer boots even if the particular device is not present at the moment. This is going to happen all the time until you manually delete a particular driver from your system.
In order to identify and remove useless drivers you need to:
- Press [Windows]+[Break] to bring up the System Properties dialog box.
- Select the Advanced tab and click the Environment Variables button.
- Click the New button below the System Variables panel.
- In the New System Variable dialog box, type devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices in the Variable Name text box and 1 in the Variable Value text box.
- Click OK to return to the System Properties dialog box and then click OK again.
- Select the Hardware tab and click the Device Manager button.
- In Device Manager, go to View | Show Hidden Devices.
- Expand the various branches in the device tree and look for the washed out icons, which indicate unused device drivers.
- To remove an unused device driver, right-click the icon and select Uninstall.
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