Steps to Safely Cleanup and Remove old USB Mass Storage Drivers on your PC
Steps to Safely Cleanup and Remove old USB Mass Storage Drivers on your PC
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- Author Lester
- Last Updated 19th February 2016, 11:12
- Category USB Key Drivers
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Steps to Safely Cleanup and Remove old USB Mass Storage Drivers on your PC
- Shut down your computer. Unplug your USB storage devices: USB Disks, flash, cams, CD/DVD, etc. as well as your USB hubs
==> Other USB devices like keyboards, mice and LAN adapters can stay plugged in - Boot computer back up. Click for how to determine whether you are running 32 or 64 bit Windows
- Download drivecleanup.zip, unzip and save to your desktop. Move the 32 or 64 bit version of DriveCleanup.exe to C:\Windows\System32
- Open an elevated command prompt window:
- NOTE! It must be an elevated command prompt window or the tool won't work. (If you need instruction, click on the embedded hyperlink in the bullet below.) p.s. Thanks to andrew129260 in helping to highlight this important point!
- Open an elevated (administrator) command prompt window!!
- NOTE! It must be an elevated command prompt window or the tool won't work. (If you need instruction, click on the embedded hyperlink in the bullet below.) p.s. Thanks to andrew129260 in helping to highlight this important point!
- In the command prompt enter: drivecleanup.exe
==> Your output should be similar to my example below.
==> If, instead, you get an error message like Command not recognized it means you didn't move Drivecleanup.exe to the right directory - Reboot. Now just replug your devices for fresh clean device reinstalls!
