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Deleting drivers - cannot delete more than 1 at a time - 11/11/2008 11:50:54 AM   
chiners_68

 

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Status: offline 		anyone know how to delete a batch of drivers? its only giving me the delete option for single drivers at a time. ive got 360 to remove..lol
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RE: Deleting drivers - cannot delete more than 1 at a time - 11/11/2008 12:02:02 PM   
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RE: Deleting drivers - cannot delete more than 1 at a time - 11/11/2008 12:57:56 PM   
MhermanNBME

 

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Status: offline 		I had to delete over a thousand, and what I ended up doing was just writing a simple vbscript that looped with sendkeys to delete one at a time. I can't find the script, but here is the sudo code:

wait 10 seconds (give some time to launch the scritp and set the focus in the console
start an infinate loop (or you could actually put in a counter)
send key delete
wait a second for the console to catch up
send key enter
wait again
loop back

You'll have to double check that those are the only key strokes needed, and get the right time delays. I know it's hokey, but it worked well enough for me.

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RE: Deleting drivers - cannot delete more than 1 at a time - 11/11/2008 1:20:30 PM   
xneilpetersonx

 

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Status: offline 		I have not used it but there is a script to delete all drivers on this page.

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2461818&SiteID=17

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RE: Deleting drivers - cannot delete more than 1 at a time - 11/11/2008 4:25:57 PM   
chiners_68

 

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Status: offline 		It  baffles me why microsoft have left out the facility to delete multiple drivers, especially when it was requested before sp1. Rejeting the request is even more amazing..lol

That vb script  looks ok ill give it a go. If not ill write something in Autoit to deal with it.

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RE: Deleting drivers - cannot delete more than 1 at a time - 11/12/2008 9:10:59 AM   
zmiller

 

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Status: offline 		Hey bud, I completely agree and it is a major pain in the butt to do this.  I've seen scripts that do key presses and I've seen scripts that delete all the drivers.  The nice thing is if you know WMI its easy to see where the drivers are and how to delete them in mass.  I was having a fit because I only wanted to delete a few drivers, say like 100, but I have over a thousand and I didn't want to delete all of them.  So what I did was created a script that will actually query the WMI area and delete the drivers that are disabled, since you can select multiple drivers and disable them.  I posted this on the microsoft forum so here is the link.  http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=4033763&SiteID=17

I hope this helps you as much as it helped me!

Let me know what you think!

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RE: Deleting drivers - cannot delete more than 1 at a time - 11/12/2008 3:06:11 PM   
chiners_68

 

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Status: offline 		zmiller,
  that vb script looks the same as the one on the other technet link above. I run that script & it never worked. maybe because I didnt have any disabled drivers!!!
Ill give you one ago. if it works your agenius.lol

Ive not delt with vb before but I do need to really. I was going to write an autoit script but this will only deal with the windows & would only automate deleting the drivers 1by 1.


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RE: Deleting drivers - cannot delete more than 1 at a time - 11/13/2008 8:18:19 AM   
chiners_68

 

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Status: offline 		zmiller,
    getting errors with your script.

copied & pasted to vbs file & run.

dosent seem to like this line

quote:

 SET objSMSNamespace = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel="&_
                                   "impersonate}!\\.\root\sms")


Windows Script Host
Line 48
Character 5
Error 0x8004100e
Code 8004100E
Source(null)

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RE: Deleting drivers - cannot delete more than 1 at a time - 11/14/2008 5:41:05 AM   
chiners_68

 

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Status: offline 		If you run it on your Primary SCCM server the vbs script works. uses nearly 100% CPU while its running but eventually you will get a succesfully delete XXX Divers message & CPU returns to normal. Just be patient.


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