Remove usb device drivers

[Nexxus]

Does anyone have a nice simple easy way to do this? im gonna be unpluging and replugging a bunch of stuff and I hate having a ton of drivers sitting around doing nothing.

[failblox]

Why would you want to uninstall them? If you're going to be unplugging and replugging stuff into your computer, then normally your computer would install the driver the first time you plug it in so that you don't have to worry about it the next time you plug it in.

[Nexxus]

Just now, failblox said:

Why would you want to uninstall them? If you're going to be unplugging and replugging stuff into your computer, then normally your computer would install the driver the first time you plug it in so that you don't have to worry about it the next time you plug it in.

because 80+% of the devices reside in 1 usb port permanently and I hate having the extras sitting around massively. 

[failblox]

15 minutes ago, Nexxus said:

because 80+% of the devices reside in 1 usb port permanently and I hate having the extras sitting around massively. 

Drivers barely take up any space on your C:\ drive. You never know when you might use those devices again so it can't hurt to have the driver sitting there.

 

If you really want to though, you could manually search through System32 to find the driver and delete it, but I don't recommend that.

[Thx And Bye]

If you plugin a removable usb drive like a hard drive or usb stick, windows doesn't really install a new driver to your system
The driver is already present on your drive. (for some more specific hardware, the driver can be downloaded via windows update) All it does is creating a new device in your device-manager that tells windows, that there is a new device on that specific usb port and which driver it needs.

So that, if you plug it in the same port the next time, windows just has to search for the device and instantly knows what it is and don't have to check that device you exactly plugged in.

 

You can see all previously installed devices in your device-manager, if you check the option "show hidden devices". You then can remove them, but that doesn't really give you any advantage over leaving them there. You are only deleting the "link" that device x needs the driver y, the actual driver remains on your drive.