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Posted on August 16, 2020 at 20:10 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

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By Fred Langa

Operating-system upgrades and resets sometimes leave behind nonworking, obsolete, or redundant device drivers that can open the door to future malfunctions.

Here’s how to easily remove any troublesome drivers cluttering up your Windows machine’s setup.

Plus: An AskWoody subscriber tries the “put the dead drive in the fridge” trick!

Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.32.0 (2020-08-17).

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