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how to uninstall the driver

Open akramwahid opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

How to uninstall this?

akramwahid avatar Nov 26 '22 03:11 akramwahid

Not sure if this is a universal fix (or if it removed everything), but looking up how to remove .inf drivers gave me this suggestion, from Microsoft's documentation:

pnputil /delete-driver <example.inf> /uninstall

I ran it in command prompt with administrator privileges. Replace <example.inf> with the full path to the AppleWirelessMouse.inf file you used to install. For example, I downloaded these drivers as a .zip from Github and extracted them into my Downloads folder, so my path was C:\Users\myusername\Downloads\MagicMouse2DriversWin10x64-master\MagicMouse2DriversWin10x64-master\AppleWirelessMouse\AppleWirelessMouse.inf

Inspecting the .inf file in a text editor showed DefaultDestDir = 12. A Microsoft page suggested that was equivalent to %windir%\System32\drivers and I confirmed that a file AppleWirelessMouse.sys appeared there when I installed the drivers and was removed when I did the cmd uninstall.

For reference, I'm using Win 11 on a Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 4.

I imagine you have to do it again for the AppleWirelessTrackpad stuff.

(Edited to use the right slashes for Windows paths.)

jkmgeo avatar Jan 16 '23 01:01 jkmgeo