Saving a Single Installed Driver for Future Use?

[iron7]

I'm curious how this could be accomplished. Also, if a driver is uninstalled through Device Manager, it would be permanently deleted from a system, correct?

 

[SIW2]

Export it.

View attachment Dism++10.1.1000.100.zip

 

[iron7]

Export it.

View attachment 411093

I'd really like to know how to accomplish this without using another program. I didn't think to specify that originally.

 

[SIW2]

win10 dism can export drivers ( but it exports all of them - not just one). Win7 dism does not have that function.

I think there may a complicated method using devcon.exe ( but that also doesn't come with win7 ) , and it is much easier to use dism++

 

[RolandJS]

SIW2, would C:\windows\system32\drivers have drivers as long as they are not deleted, just simply disabled?

 

[SIW2]

In most cases they will be in windows\system32\driverstore\filerepository, but you need to know what you are looking for.

 

[NoN]

I'm curious how this could be accomplished. Also, if a driver is uninstalled through Device Manager, it would be permanently deleted from a system, correct?

Not really too. They could stay in the system here: windows\system32\driverstore\filerepository and duplicated by newer install each time.


For example, I always install repair my Ethernet realtek drivers (see pics) which not delete the previous driver and even with some drivers uninstalled they still persist in that folder.