When the confirmation dialog pops-up, check the “Delete the driver software for this device” as well. R ight-click on the device and select “Uninstall device”. If you switched it to the Microsoft driver before, switch it back to the Conexant one using the “Update driver” option and restart your system if asked. Under the “Sound, video and game controllers” category there should be the Conexant device. Go to Settings > Apps and features and uninstall the Conexant SmartAudio app if you have it.

However, if you uninstall the driver using the Device Manager, remove the driver from the local Driver Store and then run the wushowhide tool, because Windows Update will detect the driver as a non-downloaded update, it will finally show up on the list as an update you can block from installing, which will finally stop the automatic re-installation of the driver. Using the Windows Update Show/Hide tool (wushowhide.diagcab) won’t work in this situation, since it is only able to detect and block updates that haven’t been downloaded on the system. Then if you uninstall the driver on the Device Manager by using the “Uninstall device” option, you will actually be able to remove the driver from your system, but the copy stored on the Driver Store won’t be deleted by that, so Windows Update will re-install it again on start-up using that copy.

If you try to uninstall the driver using the Conexant uninstaller, it just disables the driver but it doesn’t uninstall it. And no guide mentions this.īy default, Windows prefers the Conexant driver over the default one from Microsoft, making Windows Update to download and install it automatically. There, Windows has a local catalog of all the drivers that have been installed on your machine as well as a copy of them, and one of its uses is to provide the user with the ability to swap between certain drivers without having to reinstall them (the list of drivers that appears when you use the “Choose from a list of drivers available on your PC” option on the Device Manager is a mirror of the Driver Store). Windows has sort of a local driver archive on each PC named “Driver Store”.

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