Windows 10: Purging all drivers for a device type?

Over the past few weeks I've been trying various Alfa Wi-Fi adaptors, and different drivers. I've now given up and bought a device (TP-Link) that has a driver built into Windows 10.

However, when I plugged it in it seems to have picked up on an Alfa driver, possibly as the chipset is similar.

Is there a way to purge all drivers for a device type, except the Microsoft ones?

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Nokia Messaging-Emails are randomly disappearing from the Inbox

Hi Dean,

The emails are disappearing from the device.

As I said, I have been using Nokia Messaging (email) on my E71 for about a year (and two other colleges of mine)

We always upgrade to your latest release.

The issue of emails purging has always been a problem.

Until a month ago, emails were not purged at all from the device and I had emails from 3 months ago still showing in the device.

Now emails are randomly purged from the device.

I set my device options to "Remove older then - 1 month"

I still have emails from 2 weeks ago but emails from 4 day ago and 8 days ago have been deleted.

Sometimes a whole day disappears, some times a few emails are deleted, and a few stay.

I am using a POP email provider. All emails in my Outlook are OK.

 

Messages and conversations that have been deleted in my messaging app continue to download back onto my Windows Phone.

I deleted text messages from my messaging app and as soon as I delete them they start to show up again. 'Sync messages between devices' is set to off. where are these messages backing up to, and how can I delete them permanently? Also, I would like to have
my messages sync between Microsoft devices. However, when I purge them from one device I want them to purge from all devices permanently.

So far, I have deleted all of the messages on my pc. I've also deleted the backup files on the micro SD card that may have been created by 'contact + message backup', and I've deleted all of my device backups in OneDrive. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

 

You tried going into Device Manager and setting it to show hidden devices? That should allow you to see them and uninstall/delete the drivers.

 

Yes, but I didn't always get the tickbox option to delete the drivers, only the device.

 

Go to elevated command prompt and enter pnputil -e > %userprofile%/Desktop/Drivers.txt. This will make a document like this on your desktop Code: Published name : oem9.inf Driver package provider : Apple Inc. Class : Bluetooth Driver date and version : 07/31/2015 6.0.6100.0 Signer name : Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher Published name : oem6.inf Driver package provider : Broadcom Class : Network adapters Driver date and version : 10/15/2012 1.0.0.3 Signer name : Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher Published name : oem0.inf Driver package provider : Broadcom Class : Network adapters Driver date and version : 07/24/2015 7.35.118.40 Signer name : Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher Published name : oem3.inf Driver package provider : Cirrus Logic, Inc. Class : Sound, video and game controllers Driver date and version : 02/14/2014 6.6001.1.41 Signer name : Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher[/quote] You can remove the ones you don't want with pnputil -d oem6.inf (replacing the 6 with whatever driver you want to uninstall).

Alternatively you can download DriverStore Explorer - Home which does the same thing.