Computer help needed

[LROBBINS]

I just discovered that I made a gross mistake on two of my Win10 Iot LTSC PCs. On both of them I had allowed an update of the driver for the camera, even though I have long known that the updated driver DOES NOT WORK on these PCs. Unfortunately, I no longer have a disc image old enough to have the older driver. When I first discovered this problem, a number of years ago, I was able to download the older driver from HP.COM, but they no longer provide drivers for Win10.

The device lists in DeviceManager as "HP Wide Vision 9MP camera" (which is an Intel(R) AVstream camera) . The correct driver is 64.26100.13.17675. The useless updated driver is 70.26100.2.16913 (both from Intel).

I've just gone down varies blind alleys trying to download and install the older driver (I think my old neurons are misbehaving). Can anyone here tell me how to do this? Not a web link, there are lots of bad ones for this, but something you've actually done.

Ciao,
Lenny

[Burgerman]

Did you try the SDIO program?
Is huge... Now 50GB.

It will allow you to look at all the older drivers and install them.

https://www.glenn.delahoy.com/snappy-dr ... er-origin/

Then tell windows never to update drivrs!

[amyleon]

Use the old driver from the DriverStore of a PC that still has it.

Steps:
On a working PC: go to
C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\

Find the Intel AVStream camera folder and copy it.

On the broken PC: Device Manager >> Update driver >> Have disk >> point to that copied folder.

This is the quickest and most reliable way to reinstall the older driver.

[LROBBINS]

DPI works (but is resource heavy) even if what you need is not already in the driver store. Manually hunting through the driver store probably does too if the older one needed is already there, but in many cases there's an even simpler tool. Open device manager and double click on device of interest, click "update driver", click "browse my computer for drivers", click "let me pick from an available list of drivers on my computer" -- it searches the driver store for you.

[Burgerman]

What if its not in the driver store?
Theres another tool...

This one allows you to look at all drivers currently on the computer. Delete all the unused or old ones. And as long as everything is all running correctly, it allows you to export all current drivers to a folder. Which you can keep and use in new installations, 10, 11, etc.

Called Rapr
https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/get/drive ... rer,1.html
What you end up with after selecting/deleting all unused older drivers is a folder. Of about 4.3GB, with every driver in it all itemised. See screenshots.

Customised for YOUR setup or PC as a backup or future use. No more need to use the web...

I use this for driver backups and SDIO all the time.

[Burgerman]

Anythng gets installed or updated in the future that you want to revert back, or for fresh windows installations, then just install these saved ones from the list. If you do a lot of stability and performance testing this is te only sane way.
For e.g on dell laptops getting sound working proprly and low latency is a fight. Not any more! I saved all the drivers once I found that magic setup!

How?
Point to them from device manager.
Or
Right click the .inf files from an ELEVATED prompt as adminisrator and choose "install"...
Or
Open RAPR and tell it to install them...

Works great. Especially in cases like yours or if you have strange printer drivers or other oddball hobby hardware as I do.