How do you clean the driver store?


  1. banger
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    Windows 10 Pro x86 and x64 dual boot
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    How do you clean the driver store?


    Hi all long time no post.

    Been looking at my C drive (Pro 64 bit) and under RecoveryImage folder there is a Drivers folder containing 25gb of files, how to clean this up seems rather excessive?
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  3. Bree
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    10 Home x64 (22H2) (10 Pro on 2nd pc)
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    A couple of useful articles...

    TechNet: Remove a Driver Package from the Driver Store

    Cleanup Windows Driver Store folder | Sysadmin's tricks
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  4. banger
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    Bree said:
    A couple of useful articles...

    TechNet: Remove a Driver Package from the Driver Store


    Cleanup Windows Driver Store folder | Sysadmin's tricks
    These articles seem to have no effect on the RecoveryImage/Drivers folder.
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  6. TairikuOkami
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    Windows 11 Home
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    Do not use Windows recovery, but 3rd party software.

    RollBack Rx Home

    www.aomeitech.com/ab/standard.html
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  7. banger
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    I don't I use Reflect. I don't think this has anything to do with drive recovery.
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  8. TairikuOkami
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    I do not have that folder. Have you upgraded 10 or used the insider version before?
    It looks like it is a way to reload a previous installation when the current one fails.
    People say, they removed without problems, but it is suggested to backup it anyway.
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  9. banger
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    Fresh install although upgraded to Anniversary when it came out.
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