{"id":3829,"date":"2016-08-16T16:03:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T10:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2019-05-12T02:53:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T02:53:57","slug":"delete-old-drivers-windows-update-disk-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/delete-old-drivers-windows-update-disk-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Delete Older Versions of Device Drivers in Windows?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you update the device drivers in your system via Windows Update or other sources, Windows still keeps a copy of your older versions of device driver packages. If your system is running fine with the latest drivers and don&#8217;t need to rollback the drivers, you can save some disk space by clearing the older, unused driver packages.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Delete Old Device Drivers Using Disk Cleanup<\/h2>\n<p>Click Start, type Disk Cleanup. Right-click Disk Cleanup from the results and click Run as Administrator<\/p>\n<p>Select the system drive letter and click OK.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cleanmgr-driver-cleanup.png\" alt=\"delete old driver package disk cleanup\" width=\"375\" height=\"470\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3830\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select the checkbox for Device driver packages, and click OK.<\/p>\n<p>This removes the older versions of drivers from the drivers package store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you update the device drivers in your system via Windows Update or other sources, Windows still keeps a copy of your older versions of device driver packages. If your system is running fine with the latest drivers and don&#8217;t need to rollback the drivers, you can save some disk space by clearing the older, &#8230; <a title=\"How to Delete Older Versions of Device Drivers in Windows?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/delete-old-drivers-windows-update-disk-cleanup\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to Delete Older Versions of Device Drivers in Windows?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31537,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/find-unnecessary-drivers-windows-assessment\/","url_meta":{"origin":3829,"position":0},"title":"Find Unnecessary Device Drivers in your Windows PC","author":"Ramesh","date":"January 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Your Windows installation may get bloated over time with unwanted device driver packages. 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