Grab New DriverStore Explorer from GitHub

Over the years I’ve written repeatedly about a terrrific tool from ace developers Kannan Ramanathan and Teddy Zhang. It’s called DriverStore Explorer, also known by its executable name: RAPR.exe. A few years back this open source project moved from Microsoft’s CodePlex to GitHub. This great little tool looks up and organizes all of the device drivers in the Windows OS DriverStore. This resides in %windir%\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository, and is far too often home to obsolete and duplicated device drivers. Simply put, DriverStore Explorer remains the best tool for identifying unneeded drivers, and getting rid of those you don’t want. But because there are multiple versions floating around the web, be sure to grab new DriverStore Explorer from GitHub using its Latest Version link. As I write this blog post, that version is number 0.9.10, as shown in the About information on this screenshot:

These days, you need only click the “Select Old Drivers” button in RAPR.EXE and it does the rest. You can see it has ID’d older Nvidia display drivers — a common source of DriverStore congestion — for removal.
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