siliconman01 Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 If you use DriverStore Explorer to maintain your %Windows%\System32\DriverStore files, a new release version 0.8.4.2 is available at : https://github.com/lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer/releases Windows 10 x64 Pro on ASUS Maximus VIII Extreme motherboard, i7-6700k CPU,H220 X2 Liquid Cooler, 64 gbyte RipJaws DDR4 3200 RAM, Samsung 970 Pro NVMe M.2 500 gbyte SSD + Samsung 850 Pro 512 gbyte SSD, EVGA RTX 3060 Titan graphics card (Home Built System); Windows 11x64 Pro on 512 gigabyte Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 Laptop/tablet and Dell XPS 8940 PC and Dell XPS 16 9640 Laptop. ASUS RT-AC88U router, 14 tbyte WD My Cloud PR2100 NAS Server, 200 Mbps cable Internet, MS Edge Chromium, MS Office 2021 (Local), Casper 11, DisplayFusion (3 Flat Panel Displays per system): Latest Bitdefender Internet Security, Quicken, Weather Watcher Live, ThumbsPlus 10, Sticky Password 8, WD Smartware, CyberLink PowerDVD23, MSI AfterBurner, Rainmeter, 8GadgetPack, and many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 I've just discovered this program for the first time elsewhere, was about to post about it here after freeing up 5gb of space on my drive with it! Why is this program not more widely known?! (or perhaps, why doesn't Windows periodically free up this space itself). Great little program Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siliconman01 Posted December 26, 2018 Author Share Posted December 26, 2018 (edited) The latest version 0.9.39 is available at https://github.com/lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer/releases Edited December 27, 2018 by siliconman01 Corrected version number mistype. Windows 10 x64 Pro on ASUS Maximus VIII Extreme motherboard, i7-6700k CPU,H220 X2 Liquid Cooler, 64 gbyte RipJaws DDR4 3200 RAM, Samsung 970 Pro NVMe M.2 500 gbyte SSD + Samsung 850 Pro 512 gbyte SSD, EVGA RTX 3060 Titan graphics card (Home Built System); Windows 11x64 Pro on 512 gigabyte Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 Laptop/tablet and Dell XPS 8940 PC and Dell XPS 16 9640 Laptop. ASUS RT-AC88U router, 14 tbyte WD My Cloud PR2100 NAS Server, 200 Mbps cable Internet, MS Edge Chromium, MS Office 2021 (Local), Casper 11, DisplayFusion (3 Flat Panel Displays per system): Latest Bitdefender Internet Security, Quicken, Weather Watcher Live, ThumbsPlus 10, Sticky Password 8, WD Smartware, CyberLink PowerDVD23, MSI AfterBurner, Rainmeter, 8GadgetPack, and many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvdbane Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 10 hours ago, siliconman01 said: The latest version 0.9.29 is available at https://github.com/lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer/releases 0.9.39 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siliconman01 Posted February 22, 2019 Author Share Posted February 22, 2019 The latest version 0.10.9 is now available https://github.com/lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer/releases Windows 10 x64 Pro on ASUS Maximus VIII Extreme motherboard, i7-6700k CPU,H220 X2 Liquid Cooler, 64 gbyte RipJaws DDR4 3200 RAM, Samsung 970 Pro NVMe M.2 500 gbyte SSD + Samsung 850 Pro 512 gbyte SSD, EVGA RTX 3060 Titan graphics card (Home Built System); Windows 11x64 Pro on 512 gigabyte Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 Laptop/tablet and Dell XPS 8940 PC and Dell XPS 16 9640 Laptop. ASUS RT-AC88U router, 14 tbyte WD My Cloud PR2100 NAS Server, 200 Mbps cable Internet, MS Edge Chromium, MS Office 2021 (Local), Casper 11, DisplayFusion (3 Flat Panel Displays per system): Latest Bitdefender Internet Security, Quicken, Weather Watcher Live, ThumbsPlus 10, Sticky Password 8, WD Smartware, CyberLink PowerDVD23, MSI AfterBurner, Rainmeter, 8GadgetPack, and many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted February 22, 2019 Moderators Share Posted February 22, 2019 What is the appeal of using it? And does it have the potential of breaking something, or bricking the Windows installation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 9 hours ago, Andavari said: What is the appeal of using it? And does it have the potential of breaking something, or bricking the Windows installation? I use it mainly to delete old nVidia driver stuff after each driver update, which uses up a load of space over time. Other stuff it lists, at least on my laptop, is barely worth bothering with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted February 24, 2019 Moderators Share Posted February 24, 2019 While I have allot in the folder I'm hardly using any space on my boot SSD, so I'll pass on using it, however should I also start updating display drivers (which I currently don't) I'll give it a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siliconman01 Posted February 25, 2019 Author Share Posted February 25, 2019 On 2/22/2019 at 08:17, Andavari said: What is the appeal of using it? And does it have the potential of breaking something, or bricking the Windows installation? So far it has worked great for providing an easy method of deleting old drivers from the DriverStore folder. Several driver updaters do not remove the previous driver when a new version is installed....which is pretty much standard so you can rollback to the previous version if necessary. You have to ensure that the new driver is working okay before using RAPR. Like JDPower, the largest driver reclaim is the 700+ mbyte driver packages of Nvidia. If you try to delete a driver that is in use, RAPR will block you from deleting that driver. Be careful about update Nvidia GPU drivers because Nvidia has been making major modifications to encapsulate their new RTX graphics cards. And this is causing a lot of problems for many users. For example, I am stuck at V417.71 on my systems with the 700 and 900 series cards because any version above that randomly crashes or hangs in memory. Windows 10 x64 Pro on ASUS Maximus VIII Extreme motherboard, i7-6700k CPU,H220 X2 Liquid Cooler, 64 gbyte RipJaws DDR4 3200 RAM, Samsung 970 Pro NVMe M.2 500 gbyte SSD + Samsung 850 Pro 512 gbyte SSD, EVGA RTX 3060 Titan graphics card (Home Built System); Windows 11x64 Pro on 512 gigabyte Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 Laptop/tablet and Dell XPS 8940 PC and Dell XPS 16 9640 Laptop. ASUS RT-AC88U router, 14 tbyte WD My Cloud PR2100 NAS Server, 200 Mbps cable Internet, MS Edge Chromium, MS Office 2021 (Local), Casper 11, DisplayFusion (3 Flat Panel Displays per system): Latest Bitdefender Internet Security, Quicken, Weather Watcher Live, ThumbsPlus 10, Sticky Password 8, WD Smartware, CyberLink PowerDVD23, MSI AfterBurner, Rainmeter, 8GadgetPack, and many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted February 25, 2019 Moderators Share Posted February 25, 2019 Good to know, got burned by Nvidia drivers causing issues multiple times on the old WinXP computer (years ago) through two different display cards. Since I don't game at all on this Win10 laptop and never will I really have no need for wanting their newest driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siliconman01 Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 DriverStore Explorer is now named Driver Store Explorer and is up to version 0.10.43 https://github.com/lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer/releases Windows 10 x64 Pro on ASUS Maximus VIII Extreme motherboard, i7-6700k CPU,H220 X2 Liquid Cooler, 64 gbyte RipJaws DDR4 3200 RAM, Samsung 970 Pro NVMe M.2 500 gbyte SSD + Samsung 850 Pro 512 gbyte SSD, EVGA RTX 3060 Titan graphics card (Home Built System); Windows 11x64 Pro on 512 gigabyte Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 Laptop/tablet and Dell XPS 8940 PC and Dell XPS 16 9640 Laptop. ASUS RT-AC88U router, 14 tbyte WD My Cloud PR2100 NAS Server, 200 Mbps cable Internet, MS Edge Chromium, MS Office 2021 (Local), Casper 11, DisplayFusion (3 Flat Panel Displays per system): Latest Bitdefender Internet Security, Quicken, Weather Watcher Live, ThumbsPlus 10, Sticky Password 8, WD Smartware, CyberLink PowerDVD23, MSI AfterBurner, Rainmeter, 8GadgetPack, and many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trium Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 im lucky :-) i have try it and my screen is empty :-) no old drivers from nvidia. perhaps i was good to my laptop in the years i have it :-) Versions of CCleaner Cloud; Introduction Ccleaner Cloud; Ccleaner-->System-Requirements; Ccleaner FAQ´s; Ccleaner builds; Scheduling Ccleaner Free Es ist möglich, keine Fehler zu machen und dennoch zu verlieren. Das ist kein Zeichen von Schwäche. Das ist das Leben -> "Picard" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 1 hour ago, trium said: im lucky :-) i have try it and my screen is empty :-) no old drivers from nvidia. perhaps i was good to my laptop in the years i have it :-) If the screen is empty it's not working, should be a list of drivers showing, regardless of whether they're old or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trium Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 "no entry loaded" + "there are one or more open sessions" ? ah, after a while ... there alot of stuff :-) after refresh is the screen white :-( something seems hanging in my w8.1 with rapr Versions of CCleaner Cloud; Introduction Ccleaner Cloud; Ccleaner-->System-Requirements; Ccleaner FAQ´s; Ccleaner builds; Scheduling Ccleaner Free Es ist möglich, keine Fehler zu machen und dennoch zu verlieren. Das ist kein Zeichen von Schwäche. Das ist das Leben -> "Picard" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 2 hours ago, trium said: "no entry loaded" + "there are one or more open sessions" ? ah, after a while ... there alot of stuff :-) after refresh is the screen white :-( something seems hanging in my w8.1 with rapr "No entry loaded" at startup is normal, it usually takes 5-10 second to load (maybe longer). Same if you click refresh. "There are one or more open sessions" suggests you've multiple copies of the program running, check task manager to make sure there's not a copy running/hanging in the background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trium Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 20 hours ago, JDPower said: "No entry loaded" at startup is normal, it usually takes 5-10 second to load (maybe longer). Same if you click refresh. yes, i see ... after longer while :-) 20 hours ago, JDPower said: "There are one or more open sessions" suggests you've multiple copies of the program running, check task manager to make sure there's not a copy running/hanging in the background. no, only one. but i think rapr think it during the search process that another rapr runs... :-) perhaps the hdspace freeup is not the right amount it shows me? 10 gb only with nvidia? i have 38 nvidia entrys with 280 mb or so. i think i dont have installed it so many times :-)) one seems the actually one to be with 399 mb. and one is the intels driver. can i really delete this many "entrys"? Versions of CCleaner Cloud; Introduction Ccleaner Cloud; Ccleaner-->System-Requirements; Ccleaner FAQ´s; Ccleaner builds; Scheduling Ccleaner Free Es ist möglich, keine Fehler zu machen und dennoch zu verlieren. Das ist kein Zeichen von Schwäche. Das ist das Leben -> "Picard" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trium Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 what is with the other stuff? can i see the actually used driver for whatever and can delete the other stuff? -> driver-date and driver-version? delete rapr all the stuff of choosed old driver? -> as i looked the nvidia installer seems to be as an *.inf + *.pnf and the folder Versions of CCleaner Cloud; Introduction Ccleaner Cloud; Ccleaner-->System-Requirements; Ccleaner FAQ´s; Ccleaner builds; Scheduling Ccleaner Free Es ist möglich, keine Fehler zu machen und dennoch zu verlieren. Das ist kein Zeichen von Schwäche. Das ist das Leben -> "Picard" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 6 hours ago, trium said: can i really delete this many "entrys"? You don't delete EVERYTHING. After it's loaded drivers you can click the "Select old drivers" button and that will tick entries that probably aren't needed and can delete them if you want. Drivers which were installed on the computer when you got it may not be able to be deleted, so don't try to force delete any that it says can't be deleted. But as with anything like this, the risk is yours, make sure you have backups in case it all goes wrong. Personally I only use it to delete old nVidia drivers (which took up a big chunk of space), anything else takes up such negligible space it's not worth messing anything up for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siliconman01 Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 You can go to the Control Panel>Nvidia Control Panel to determine which version of the Nvidia software that is currently installed on your system. Windows 10 x64 Pro on ASUS Maximus VIII Extreme motherboard, i7-6700k CPU,H220 X2 Liquid Cooler, 64 gbyte RipJaws DDR4 3200 RAM, Samsung 970 Pro NVMe M.2 500 gbyte SSD + Samsung 850 Pro 512 gbyte SSD, EVGA RTX 3060 Titan graphics card (Home Built System); Windows 11x64 Pro on 512 gigabyte Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 Laptop/tablet and Dell XPS 8940 PC and Dell XPS 16 9640 Laptop. ASUS RT-AC88U router, 14 tbyte WD My Cloud PR2100 NAS Server, 200 Mbps cable Internet, MS Edge Chromium, MS Office 2021 (Local), Casper 11, DisplayFusion (3 Flat Panel Displays per system): Latest Bitdefender Internet Security, Quicken, Weather Watcher Live, ThumbsPlus 10, Sticky Password 8, WD Smartware, CyberLink PowerDVD23, MSI AfterBurner, Rainmeter, 8GadgetPack, and many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siliconman01 Posted September 27, 2019 Author Share Posted September 27, 2019 Driver Store Explorer is at v0.10.54 https://github.com/lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer/releases Windows 10 x64 Pro on ASUS Maximus VIII Extreme motherboard, i7-6700k CPU,H220 X2 Liquid Cooler, 64 gbyte RipJaws DDR4 3200 RAM, Samsung 970 Pro NVMe M.2 500 gbyte SSD + Samsung 850 Pro 512 gbyte SSD, EVGA RTX 3060 Titan graphics card (Home Built System); Windows 11x64 Pro on 512 gigabyte Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 Laptop/tablet and Dell XPS 8940 PC and Dell XPS 16 9640 Laptop. ASUS RT-AC88U router, 14 tbyte WD My Cloud PR2100 NAS Server, 200 Mbps cable Internet, MS Edge Chromium, MS Office 2021 (Local), Casper 11, DisplayFusion (3 Flat Panel Displays per system): Latest Bitdefender Internet Security, Quicken, Weather Watcher Live, ThumbsPlus 10, Sticky Password 8, WD Smartware, CyberLink PowerDVD23, MSI AfterBurner, Rainmeter, 8GadgetPack, and many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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