- Sysprep allows you to delete all information related to a specific operating system, including unique identifiers (SID, GUID, etc.), resets the Windows activation and to install apps and drivers in the Audit mode.
- May 02, 2018 Since I keep seeing this myth thrown around on Spiceworks, I decided to make a thread: Sysprep does not remove device drivers. Admittedly, Microsoft has not helped with the myth. They have even incorrectly repeated it. But the truth is that Sysprep does not screw with drivers.
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I have been struggling getting some 3G USB modems and some other hardware to work and in the process I have managed to get a lot of unnecessary and just plain wrong drivers installed. This is causing my system and other hardware to work incorrectly. I would like to remove all the drivers on this system and have windows reinstall all the default drivers.
Can I do this with a Windows 7 repair install or how else can I get rid off all the current drivers.
There may be scenarios where its critical drivers are not removed from an OS instance when SYSPREP is executed. To do this run the following prior to SYSPREP Move to HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Setup Sysprep Settings sppnp. I need to keep installed drivers on an OS even after running SYSPREP, how do I do this? There may be scenarios where its critical drivers are not removed from an OS instance when SYSPREP is executed.
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I would recommend that you do a clean reinstall of Windows 7, that way you can wipe all of the old drivers, and Windows 7 will automatically reinstall the default drivers needed (for the most part).
Obviously, it is not possible to remove all of the drivers in an operating system, because it will break the OS permanently, thus a clean reinstall is pretty much the only way to go..
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You can use sysprep tool for that. Just run it from
PomaPomac:windowssystem32sysprepsysprep.exe
, check Generalize
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Removing ALL drivers will damage windows and make your life horrible!Your are better off selectively removing the drivers.
Boot from Windows 7 DVDSelect Repair and command prompt
If instead of a wim file your working with an offline copy of windows substitute the path that has the windows folder on it for c:testoffline. When in the command prompt mode from the windows 7 DVD your drive letter may not be the same. Also with an offline copy of windows dism /Mount-Image maybe skipped.
This is all that is require on a offline version of windows.
Lists all drivers
feed the list one at a time into the remove command below. It is only necessary to mount once, not once per driver.
You create an empty folder called test and within that another empty folder called offline. The wim file will be mounted to that folder.
Remove a specific driver from the image. Multiple drivers can be removed on one command line. For example, type:
Removing a boot-critical driver package can make the offline Windows image unbootable
Autocad hydraulic blocks. The files are agrupated in thematics and subthematics collections and are purged (only layer 0).
Adding drivers also has a command
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