Driverheaven - Driver Cleaner 1.9

**Spike** · Jul 14, 2003, 03:05 AM

Here is another release of Driver Cleaner. Below you find a list of the things that are changed since 1.8:
Improved:
- ATI cleaning file
- ATI WDM cleaning file
- VIA Chipset cleaning file alpha
- nForce Chipset cleaning file alpha

If you need to use the ATI WDM cleaning than download 1.9

IMPORTANT: uninstall the older version first before you install this version.

It is for nVidia, ATI, Creative and VIA drivers. It will remove anything that is left by the drivers after uninstall.

You can download the new version here.

If you use Driver Cleaner either for personal or business use and wish to support development so i can continue to improve this product, please donate some money. Every little bit helps in my long hours of developing this tool to further aid the community. See the Driver Cleaner website for a link or check the readme or help file for more details.

Spike

Aspect · Jul 15, 2003, 12:58 PM

Works great spike

RyanVM · Jul 15, 2003, 02:32 PM

i'll be testing them with the Cat3.6s soon. I'll let you know if anything fubars :P

Caligatio · Jul 17, 2003, 03:47 PM

The program reports my OS as Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 but I have the Home edition. Just thought I should send in a little bug report hehe

**Spike** · Jul 17, 2003, 04:14 PM

Ok thanx for reporting. I will look into it, but you have Service Pack 1 installed?

Caligatio · Jul 17, 2003, 06:18 PM

Yep, I have SP1 installed along with every other update available :-)

tek · Jul 23, 2003, 02:54 PM

this tool works flawlessly, I love it... thanks again man!!

-tek

RyanVM · Jul 31, 2003, 09:02 PM

Problem with the nForce cleaner. It deletes the usbport.sys file which is required by Windows. I've had two computers now where I've had to send them this file from my own computer because it was deleted by DC.

**Spike** · Aug 1, 2003, 03:04 AM

Ok i will fix it for the next release.

BWX · Aug 1, 2003, 05:22 AM

About an hour ago I decided to install drivercleaner 1.9 . I noticed that there was a "via" option in there so I decided to clean up my via 686b southbridge drivers and reinstall them. I ran drivercleaner and chose via, then pressed clean.

An error message popped up telling me that important windows files had been overwritten. I didn't think much of it- I figured I would replace them when I reinstalled the IDE drivers. I rebooted (or tried to)-

No go- Got blue screen of death with message that windows was shut down to prevent serious hardware damage, bla bla bla.... I didn't write down exact error message- I was too worried about recovering important data. Basically it said to check for errors, reinstall IDE drivers, remove and replace faulty IDE devices, remove Harddrives. I tried to let the Bios re- detect the harddrive, but that didn't help.

I figured, OK, safemode then-

Nothing- same thing. Since I wasn't running system restore, and never do, And have never needed to- except once when a third party theme error that made everything in windows balck- but I was able to recover from that.

Anyways-- after Drivercleaner- I was hosed- No windows Xp for me anymore.

I popped in a boot disk w/ fdisk and ran scandisk, nothing found-

I had to run setup from my windows xp pro cd and repair the installation, It took about an hour, looking just like and installation after a format c:--- and to my surprise, after that, I booted into windows to my desktop, almost just like I left it-

But I got about 15 errors right in a row stating windows has just recovered from a serious error- When I right click on my computer, I get all kinds of errors- I am back to pre-sp1 with no updates and all kinds of problems.

I'm just glad that I got into my old windows installation to save some very important e-mail addresses and links that I hadn't saved yet. (widows makes it a pain to save individual outlook express identities and email addresses other that writing them all down) ---

It will take a while, but I'm going to just write down all my email addresses and saved favorite links by hand. In the past I have used "files and settings transfer wizard" to save all my internet favorites and email settings to use in my next install- But with all the "path not found" errors I'm getting now- I'm not sure that will even work. Plus it only ever works for the main Identity in outlook express and I have 4- so three would get lost. Arg...

Just a warning to everyone who thinks they might want to use the "via" chipset driver cleaner, make backups, prepare to reinstall you operating system. Turn on System restore before hand. I don't know what happened to me- but my OS is hosed-

I know what I'm going to be doing for the next week. Be careful!!

I was using windows XP pro SP1, Gigabyte ga-7dx+ w/ AMD761 northbridge and a Via 686B sonthbridge with drivers from gigabyte for the IDE and southbrdge and the latest AMD 761 AGP drivers (5.33 I think)for the northbridge. After using DH Drivercleaner for the via chipset drivers, I rebooted and did not have a working OS.

Go figure.

**Spike** · Aug 1, 2003, 08:12 AM

I know about this problem and i removed the via cleaning file from my next release, so no more via cleaning. Nobody gave me help on the via cleaning file so i stop with the via cleaning file.

BWX · Aug 1, 2003, 08:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Spike
I know about this problem and i removed the via cleaning file from my next release, so no more via cleaning. Nobody gave me help on the via cleaning file so i stop with the via cleaning file.

Oh, you should really take it out of this version too- Or at least put huge warnings all over the place- I didn't know about the problem at all. It killed my OS install.

**Spike** · Aug 1, 2003, 10:46 AM

I found out about it 2 days ago and first wanted to look into it. Since yesterday i know it is not ok. I take it out of my next version. Also changing this version has no use, but i will remove it. I just hoped that people just helped me with the program like giving reg keys and such.

~~HawK~~ · Aug 1, 2003, 11:03 AM

Quote:

. I just hoped that people just helped me with the program like giving reg keys and such.

So what do you need, maybe I can help?

My System:
MoBo = Shuttle AK32a KT266
PSU = Q-tec 550 watt
Via drivers: 448 (Hyperion)
mem = 2x 256mb_cl2.5 Hyund. DDR266mhz
Cpu = Amd Athlon 1600xp+
HD = Seagate Barracuda ATA-IV 80Gb
WD- 800JB 80Gb
Vid = Ati9700, driver: Catalyst 3.6 (Omega)
OS = W2000 sp4 DX9b & AMD AGP Patch
Sound = Hercules FortissimoIII 7.1

**Spike** · Aug 1, 2003, 11:11 AM

Now i need as much info as you can find about the via install on your pc like files with for example via*.* and in the registry search for VIA and export that and mail it to me.