Unable to uninstall Nvidia driver.

chief barker · 06-01-2009, 8:55 AM

I have a strange issue when trying to uninstall the graphics drivers for a Dell XPS M1730 laptop.

I have tried to uninstall them from the add/remove programs but it just hangs (I left it for about 30 minutes).

Next I tried to uninstall from device manager but It came up with the message that it 'cannot remove drivers as It might be needed to boot the computer'.

I have tried both methods in safe mode to no avail.

The laptop is running MCE.

Any ideas fellas?.

Thanks.

**Curly99** · 06-01-2009, 11:06 PM

You could try and see if you can uninstal the driver through CCleaner or see if Driversweeper can do it, both programs can be found easily enough with a Google search.

Curly

chief barker · 07-01-2009, 9:26 AM

Thanks for the reply curly, I have both programmes installed already but CCleaner fails to uninstall it too and I believe driversweeper just get's rid of driver remnants after the initial driver uninstall, but I may be wrong.

I think I will have to go with re-formatting the hard drive.

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