How to roll back the driver in windows 10

Sometimes after installing new versions of the equipment drivers - video cards, system devices, sound card, you may encounter the fact that it starts to work incorrectly. In this case, one of the first things to try is to roll back the installed driver.

In this manual about the general method of rollback of device drivers in Windows 10, as well as some additional information on the NVIDIA GeForce driver rollback theme to the previous version, because On this topic questions are asked more often than others. It can also be useful: how to prevent Windows 10 driver updating.

Rollback of device driver using device manager

In Windows 10, as in previous versions of the OS, there is a built-in method for rollback of device drivers to their previous versions if necessary. You can perform the necessary actions in the Device Manager:

1. Open the Device Manager: To do this, you can right-click on the "Start" button and select the appropriate menu item, or press the Win + R keys, enter Devmgmt.msc and press ENTER.
2. In the Device Manager, find the device you need, click on it right mouse button and select "Properties".

   

3. Click the Driver tab and check whether the button "Rollback" is active. If yes - click it.

   

4. The latest version of Windows 10 can ask you why you want to roll back the driver. After the answer, click "Yes."

   

5. Immediately after that, the device driver will be deleted, and instead of it - the previous version of the driver is installed (and in some cases a universal system driver).

Sometimes, after the described actions, it is also required to restart the computer so that the old driver is activated as the device used (the appropriate notification will appear on this).

Installing the previous version of the driver manually

Sometimes, the button "Rollback" in the driver properties is not active. In this case, you can do a little differently:

1. Find and download driver version you need, ideally - from the official website of the manufacturer of the motherboard, laptop or equipment.
2. Select the device in the device manager, click on it with the right mouse button and select the "Delete Delete" item. In the next window, mark the item "Delete drivers for this device".

   

3. Upon completion of the device delete, run the previously downloaded driver version installer and install.

Some additional information about the NVIDIA GeForce driver rollback

If you need to roll back the NVIDIA GeForce driver, and with the help of the device manager, it is not possible, I recommend to keep in mind that way:

1. Take a look at the C: \ ProgramData \ Nvidia Corporation \ Downloader folder - in this location, in the attached folders you are likely to find the installers of old versions of the drivers and they do not have to download from somewhere. Transfer the desired installer to another, convenient to you, location.
2. Remove NVIDIA drivers using DDU.
3. Set the desired version of the drivers.

That's all. If something does not work, ask questions in the comments, I will try to help.