When a device have no driver assigned, PnP manager finds compatible drivers, ranks them, chooses best one and installs this driver.
Several Packages for one device can be present and one Package can have drivers for multiple devices. One place where it looks for drivers is a Driver Store on a local computer. Your device is a PnP (Plug and Play) device - It means that Windows, automatically chooses the driver to use for this device. Also, what is a package anyways? What is its relationship with a driver. The word delete scares me as it seems to offer no way of easily backing up or rolling back, so I haven't tried it.
Wmic can disable and enable drivers, but I want to uninstall and reinstall them. I'm hesitant to even try using this delete option since I see no easy way of undoing it if it ends up being the wrong thing. All it has is pnputil -d, which it says is for deleting the package (what is a package? How does that differ from a driver? Are they they same?) My manual instructions are explicitly not to delete the driver, only to uninstall it. Further, Details Tab > Included Infs calls it netvwifibus.inf - also not something pnputil called it.Īnother issue with pnputil is it doesn't seem to have an uninstall command. None of which are the name that pnputil called it. When I go into the GUI Device Manager and Right Click Driver > Properties > Driver Tab > Driver Details, it lists off the following files: C:\windows\system32\DRIVERS\Netwfw02.dat Signer name : Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher It doesn't seem to include the same human readable name used in Device Manager (which wmic above did), but I see this device listed which I think is it: Published name : oem186.inf Those commands have output that suggests they did whatever they're supposed to do, but it doesn't have the same effect as uninstalling and reinstalling the driver. Wmic path win32_networkadapter where index= call enable Wmic path win32_networkadapter where index= call disable I can parse this to find the index of the device. I have found these two command line tools which seem relevant, but neither of them seem to do exactly what I want. I need to regularly perform these steps, so I'd like to find a way of automating them. Right click Network Adapters > Scan for Hardware Changes.DO NOT DELETE, leave the delete option unchecked, just hit OK for it to be uninstalled.Right Click Intel(R) Dual band Wireless-AC 7260 > Uninstall.
I need to automate the uninstall and reinstall a driver on Windows 7.