Before discussing further let’s understand about driver so that you can easily understand everything. it is a type of software installed in the windows to run each hardware properly. Sometimes you have heard about the sound driver, WiFi driver, and so on. These are the ones that work to connect the hardware to the CPU. Without the driver, a particular hardware can’t work properly.

What is Display Driver Uninstaller?

Display Driver Uninstaller is a tool that is used to uninstall the driver of your computer display. Now you have the question of why this tool is required as we can uninstall the driver from the control panel, or computer management. Still, this DDU tool has been made because uninstalling the driver manually leaves some residual files and corrupt registry on your computer. To remove them you can’t do it manually so this tool is required to remove the driver completely so that you can install the fresh driver or you can use the driver which was on the first time when Windows installed.

What is a driver?

It is a type of software that is programmed to operate your hardware to the operating system. It helps your hardware to communicate with the operating system so that it can sync to your computer. In short, we can say that it is used to make connections between software the hardware.

Features of drivers

Why Do Drivers Get Corrupt?

it is due to many reasons. There is no particular reason why it gets corrupt because various things have to take part to run it smoothly and if one of the factors gets disturbed then it causes the defect. Now let’s understand the factors by which it gets corrupt:-

• The failure of it is one of the reasons of outdated, if you do not update your computer then it gets corrupt.
• By using the unsupported one, which is not designed for your particular hardware.
• Modifying incorrectly, or wrong customization on the registry settings.
• Sometimes an update of Windows conflicts with the existing one.
• Virus and malware are some of the big factors that disturb it.
• Suddenly power cut, forced shut down, or the system crashed.
• Error on the storage where it is stored.

How to Fix Corrupted Drivers?

There are several methods by which you can easily fix the issue:-

Update the corrupted one, by the Device manager

Device manager is one of the easy options to solve this problem. By this method, you can particularly update the corrupted one, manually. There is a very simple way to run the device manager:-

1. Press the right-click on my computer icon.
2. Press on the manage option and computer management windows will open on your computer.
3. Double-click on Device Management.
4. Now can see the various hardware options, you can right-click on them and press update driver to update them.

Reinstall

If the updating doesn’t help then you can reinstall it to solve you’re issue.

1. Press the right-click on my computer icon.
2. Press on the manage option and computer management windows will open on your computer.
3. Double-click on Device Management.
4. Choose which hardware option needs to be fixed, press right-click, and go to properties.
5. Now click on the Driver option and press on the uninstall option at the bottom of the window.
6. Restart your PC, it will reinstall automatically.

if all the above steps are done but again facing the same issue then it is time to use DisplayDriverUninstaller

Use of the Display Driver Uninstaller

After a long time of using Windows, you may find a display problem on your PC. Sometimes you face a blackout while using the PC, sometimes it gets stuck, and sometimes the brightness does not work. These are the problems that generally occur when your device doesn’t have the proper driver in it, and it happens when the driver does not support your CPU.

So in this case we need to uninstall the current driver so, that the problem will be solved. And to uninstall we generally do to control panel and computer management to uninstall it, but you find the same problem after doing so. This happened because some of the residual files remain in your PC after uninstalling, but by using this tool, you will get the fresh driver when you install the window, after uninstalling the driver.

Why is DDU needed?

windows system just had a black screen issue or some glitch effects or some random issue caused by a faulty driver.  The experts will tell you that just uninstall and reinstall the graphics driver but chances are you’re doing the method raw if you’re just uninstalling the graphics driver using the control panel, there’s a very high probability that your issue will not be resolved so what’s the right way to do that is by using this tool just download here to fix all issue related driver.

How does Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) work?

you can use the control panel and just uninstall your graphics driver or even go to the device manager and install drivers. But the problem is that there will still be some residual files and some corrupt registry entries means the normal registry entries, will become corrupt later on and it will interrupt your performance.

So even if you reinstall a stable version of your driver update chances are those faulty entries and those residual files will still trouble your new installation and not fix your issue. So the ideal way is to clean all of it and that is exactly where this tool is designed so that it will search and remove all residual files and registry entries.

Restoring your system to a clean point is similar to what it was when you purchased the computer. It is basically like if you assemble a PC and you have no drives installed it will be restored to that point.

Features of Display Driver Uninstaller

Requirements

Recommendation for using Display Driver Uninstaller

• Close all the network connectivity, because Windows updates and reinstalls the uninstalled driver
• This tool should be used when the problem of uninstalling/installing a driver occurs
• It should not be used whenever you want to install the new driver, use it when a problem occurs
• It will not work on the network drive, so install it in a local drive (C: D: or else)
• It can be used in normal mode but for stability, safe mode is recommended.
• If you using it in normal mode, you have to clean, reboot, clean again, and reboot.

Download the Display Driver Uninstaller

Just download it on your computer. After the download, you have to extract the file as it is in the compressed form. After the extra follow the installation process.

Things to keep in mind before installing DDU

Before actually going further there are some things to keep in mind,

• first thing ensure that your system is not connected to the internet, this is to ensure that the Windows update does not interfere with the GPU driver uninstallation.
• Secondly, this tool will not work on a network drive so you’ll need to install and run it on your Windows computer.
• Next up it’s recommended to exclude the DDU folder from your antivirus software and lastly, it’s recommended to use this tool in the Windows safe mode.

Name	Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU)
Manufacturer	Wagnard
Size	2 MB
Downloads	171,089
Last updated	5 days ago
Operating System	Windows (all versions)

How to install the Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU)?

We will install it in the safe mode

1. Download, Extract & Run the DDU.exe software on your PC.
2. Go to the Windows update, click on advanced options
3. Select recovery and click on the restart now (The PC will automatically reboot)
4. Click on the troubleshoot, select advanced options, and go to startup settings
5. Now click on the restart, and press F4 to enable the safe mode.

Installation

1. Once your PC starts on the safe mode, open the Display Driver Uninstaller folder and click on the extracted file of display driver uninstaller.exe
2. After launching the uninstaller a popup window will ask you which driver you want to keep or uninstall, carefully tick them.
3. Now close the popup window, and you will find the DDU window is opened, now go to the right side, select your device type GPU, whether it’s NVidia AMD, or Intel,
4. Now click on the clean and restart,
5. After restart connect the PC to the internet, and go for the Windows update, your PC will automatically install the stable driver and you can use your PC.

How to remove or uninstall the Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU)?

To Remove this application:-

• Go to the control panel
• Select view by option to category
• Double-click on Uninstall a program under the program section
• Select the application to uninstall and right-click on it
• Click on the uninstall option.

Conclusion

Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) is a tool that is used to fix the driver problem of windows. Sometimes due to some factors, the drivers get corrupted, and to fix them you have to remove or reinstall the driver, but the normal process of uninstalling does not solve the problem permanently. So this tool is made to uninstall the drive completely. Trademark notice: This website and/or material is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Wagnard and registered trademarks of Wagnard. This webpage is for educational purposes only.

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