How to restore drivers backed up via Dism /Online /Export-Driver

Dism /online /Add-Driver /Driver:D:\Lenovo_Drivers /Recurse

The /recurse adds all. If you wanted just the one (for some reason) you'd specify the relevant subdirectory inside Lenovo_Drivers.

Kyhi said:

Or you can use Device Manager > select the unknown device > point to your Driver folder..
windows will do the rest..

Assuming that only the drivers with yellow question marks are the only ones you want to update.

In my case my SD card reader looks fine on device manager but doesn't work until I install the correct driver.

If you export the drivers you may as well import them.

Ztruker said:

Thanks to both of you. I'll want to import all of them as my computer works great as far as devices is concerned. I'l going to clean install to fix another problem.

You can run through them with pnputil or DriverStore Explorer and delete the ones you don't want. Either before or after.

lx07 said:

You can run through them with pnputil or DriverStore Explorer and delete the ones you don't want. Either before or after.

Viewing that link for driverstore, it reports that its only been tested on Windows 7 and vista.....does not mention anything about working on Windows 10 ??

OldMike65 said:

Viewing that link for driverstore, it reports that its only been tested on Windows 7 and vista.....does not mention anything about working on Windows 10 ??

It does exactly the same. If you really wanted you could use powershell add-windowsdriver if you wanted to be (mildy) up to date.

The powershell commands only dism anyway though so no point unless you prefer the syntax.

Here you go then - what is the difference:

Code:

Dism /Add-Driver /Driver:D:\Lenovo_Drivers /Recurse

or

Code:

Add-WindowsDriver -Driver D:\Lenovo_Drivers -Recurse

Only difference is - or /. The same thing is done anyway.

To be honest with you. I use pnputil.exe or powershell. I find the dism syntax confusing. Backwards and forwards with the slash thing. Then you have a colon. Or a semi. Seems a bit dodgy to me.

All of them do the same thing though so it makes (as they say) no odds either way.

lx07 said:

It does exactly the same. If you really wanted you could use powershell add-windowsdriver if you wanted to be (mildy) up to date.

The powershell commands only dism anyway though so no point unless you prefer the syntax.

Here you go then - what is the difference:

Code:

Dism /Add-Driver /Driver:D:\Lenovo_Drivers /Recurse

or

Code:

Add-WindowsDriver -Driver D:\Lenovo_Drivers -Recurse

Only difference is - or /. The same thing is done anyway.

To be honest with you. I use pnputil.exe or powershell. I find the dism syntax confusing. Backwards and forwards with the slash thing. Then you have a colon. Or a semi. Seems a bit dodgy to me.

All of them do the same thing though so it makes (as they say) no odds either way.

Nope if you tell me that Driverstore works, that's good enough for me :)

Darn it the program needs Net Frame work 3.5 installed to run. Don't know if I want to install that for just one program.