Is it possible to export only active drivers from Windows 10?

hsehestedt said:

I've created a library of unattended installs for Windows. On one of these, I have injected all the drivers from my various home computers. The problem is that the library of drivers is HUGE.

For example, when I use either DISM or PNPUTIL to export my drivers, I can easily end up with 10 to 15GB or even more of exported drivers for a single system, and that's for the very simple systems without any special hardware installed.

Other than going through each driver one by one and trying to make heads or tails of what the driver is for, does anyone know of a way to whittle these drivers down to just those that are actually used by the system they are being exported from?

An example of what I am doing:

Code:

pnputil /export-driver * "D:\Exported Drivers"

Note that using DISM results in exactly the same results.

Hi hsehestedt,

The command in DISM is: dism /Online /Export-Driver /Destination:D:\Drivers (D: being the desired drive, of course). It's from this tutorial: DISM - Add or Remove Drivers on an Offline Image

Kind regards,

tecknot

Is this any use? By default it appears to have only loaded drivers ticked



doubledriver is also quite handy seems to suggest the similar drivers as drvindex above