Driver Sweeper

Driver Sweeper is a free Windows utility from Phyxion.net that removes the leftovers of old drivers. When you uninstall a graphics, sound or network driver, files and registry entries often stay behind, and they can conflict with the new driver you install afterwards. Driver Sweeper scans for these entries and lets you choose which ones to remove, so the new driver can be installed on a clean system. The software is easy to use: you tick the driver filters (for example NVIDIA - Display, AMD - Display or Realtek - Sound), click Analyse to see a list of all the matching entries found on your system when you use Driver Sweeper, and then click Clean.

Features:

• Scan and Remove: finds the driver entries of the selected manufacturers and removes only the entries you choose
• Ready-made filters for AMD, ASUS, Creative, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Realtek and other hardware vendors
• Desktop Icons: saves the positions of your desktop icons and restores them after a new driver has changed the screen layout
• Backup Manager: automatically backs up the selected entries before removal, so you can restore them and return to the previous driver
• Custom Filters for other drivers, detailed log files, command-line parameters for automated cleaning and five interface themes

Removes the remnants of old drivers so that a new driver can be installed on a clean system without conflicts

In conclusion, Driver Sweeper is a handy tool when a driver update fails or a new graphics card driver does not work properly after the old one was uninstalled. It is completely free of charge. Cleaning is usually done after the old driver has been removed with its own uninstaller, often in Windows Safe Mode, and before the new driver is installed. Driver Sweeper is no longer developed: version 3.2.0 was the last release, and Phyxion.net has replaced it with Driver Fusion from Treexy. The program requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 or higher.