Hi! I want to extract driver for my old gpu HD6450, because every time I download what's supposed to be newest (it's 4 years old!), and then I get a prompt to update the driver, because apparently there is some never version (that happens only once, so I guess this newest driver isn't publicly avaialable from a website). So what is a neat way to extract just the driver, without all AMD crap like CCC or Crimson? Many thanks in advance!
Create a folder for your drivers. Then dism /online /export-driver /destination:<path to folder> Now you have all your drivers exported.
Which part of "cleanest way" you didnt get? Its a simple command line or power shell script to get the driver stored for later use, no need to install 3rd party software.
WHERE I talked about "cleanest way"? I didn't at all. The OP was simply asking for apps using to save installed drivers for later use, and THAT question I'd answered! And, as we all know, MS didn't have the best tools for ANY work, did they?! There also some 3.party Apps which are better than the apps from MS!
Since when is the MS way always the cleanest way? If I would use YOUR cleanest way on my Windows Tablet, which I tried a few times already, I wouldn't get all needed files out which I would need for later new installation! That happened with the DISM and the EXPORT command already, for both the much needed Touch-Screen driver files were not exported, which the above mentioned 3. party apps did fully, and so for a few other drivers!
Hi everybody! The DISM method is very interesting and works well, even on my computer which is on Windows 8.1. Nevertheless, there have been 144 directories on the issue of destination. Is there a DISM command to integrate them all on a new Windows installation?
The MSMG toolkit works well with mounted wim, but to integrate them after install update driver manually one by one, and point to exported drivers folder.
You can use pnputil if you want to do just individual drivers rather than the whole lot. e.g. pnputil /e Published name : oem13.inf Driver package provider : Intel Class : Network adapters Driver date and version : 10/09/2016 18.33.5.1 Signer name : Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher pnputil /export-driver oem13.inf c:\backup
No need to use obscure commands. Just locate your driver in \windows\system32\driverstore and copy the folder somewhere. That's all
I have tried many driver back up programs, they back up OK but they all fail to reinstall said drivers. The whole exercise is more trouble than its worth, just download and save all the driver packages you require, its what you will probably have to do in the end.
Yepp, but copying a single folder is way simpler. Even simpler is to keep your old driverstore folder, delete any stock driver folder (that's easy given the file date), then point the the device manager there for ANY missing driver. If you're reinstalling, and you have your windows.old still in place you don't have to copy anything, hardly can be simpler.