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I’ve updated a driver, but now my hardware doesn’t work properly. How can I fix this?

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Published on Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Open Device Manager by clicking Start > Control Panel, select System and Maintenance and click Device Manager. Locate the hardware device, right-click it and choose Properties. Switch to the Driver tab and click Roll Back Driver to return to the previous version.

Rolling back drivers

Back to basics - It's easy to roll back to previous drivers if things go bad
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This gives alot of good information and it's not hard to follow. Thanks
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