Over the past few weeks I've been trying various Alfa Wi-Fi adaptors, and different drivers. I've now given up and bought a device (TP-Link) that has a driver built into Windows 10.
However, when I plugged it in it seems to have picked up on an Alfa driver, possibly as the chipset is similar.
Is there a way to purge all drivers for a device type, except the Microsoft ones?
You tried going into Device Manager and setting it to show hidden devices? That should allow you to see them and uninstall/delete the drivers.
Go to elevated command prompt and enter pnputil -e > %userprofile%/Desktop/Drivers.txt. This will make a document like this on your desktopYou can remove the ones you don't want with pnputil -d oem6.inf (replacing the 6 with whatever driver you want to uninstall).Code:Published name : oem9.inf Driver package provider : Apple Inc. Class : Bluetooth Driver date and version : 07/31/2015 6.0.6100.0 Signer name : Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher Published name : oem6.inf Driver package provider : Broadcom Class : Network adapters Driver date and version : 10/15/2012 1.0.0.3 Signer name : Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher Published name : oem0.inf Driver package provider : Broadcom Class : Network adapters Driver date and version : 07/24/2015 7.35.118.40 Signer name : Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher Published name : oem3.inf Driver package provider : Cirrus Logic, Inc. Class : Sound, video and game controllers Driver date and version : 02/14/2014 6.6001.1.41 Signer name : Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher
Alternatively you can download DriverStore Explorer - Home which does the same thing.
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