When a device is disabled Windows and all applications will not be able to use the device.

The above information should cover just about everything you would want to do with the Windows Device Manager.The process below details how to disable devices using the device manager in Windows 10. The Device Manager also warns you about resource conflicts, but you should see resource conflicts very rarely on modern systems. This should only be necessary if you want to purge certain drivers from your system and try setting up the device and its drivers from scratch. You may have to reboot your computer after doing this. Note that this may not remove all driver files, so uninstalling the drivers from your Control Panel is a better idea, if this is possible.

Uninstall: Uninstall the drivers associated with the device from your system.

Disable: Disable the device, preventing it from working in Windows until you re-enable it.

If this button is grayed out, the driver hasn’t been updated, so there’s no previous driver to roll back to. You could hunt down the old driver and manually install it, but this button provides a quick way to downgrade your driver.

If you’ve updated the driver to a new version and the hardware isn’t working quite right, you should downgrade the driver. Roll Back Driver: Revert to the driver the device was previously using.If you want to manually choose a custom, downloaded driver for a device, you’ll do it from here. Searching for an updated driver may help if the driver is old and outdated. Windows allows you to search online for an updated driver or manually choose a driver that has been downloaded to your system, just as you can when installing devices normally.

Update Driver: Install an updated driver.

Driver Details: View details about the exact location of the driver files being used by the device on your system.

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