Uninstall Offline Windows OS Drivers with Dism Command

Uninstall Offline Windows OS Drivers with Dism Command

 
You can uninstall the third party drivers from offline Windows Operating Systems using Command Prompt within Windows Recovery Environment.
Uninstalling third party driver while Windows OS offline can be helpful in situations where Windows OS will not boot or have a Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) because of a driver you have installed.
 
Dism command can only be use with following operating systems:

• Windows 7
• Windows 8
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 10

Boot the computer into Windows Recovery Environment and open the Command Prompt.
 
Display information about all drivers in an offline operating system.
 

Dism /image:D:\ /Get-Drivers

 
 

 
 
Replace the D:\ drive letter with the assigned drive letter of the Windows OS installed partition.
 
 

Dism /image:D:\ /Get-DriverInfo /Driver:oem1.inf

 
 

 
Replace the D:\ drive letter with the assigned drive letter of the Windows OS installed partition.
Also replace the oem1.inf driver name with driver name you want to view its details.
 

Remove driver package from an offline Windows operating system.

Example:
 

DISM /Image:D:\ /Remove-Driver /Driver:oem1.inf

 

 
Replace the D:\ drive letter with the assigned drive letter of the Windows OS installed partition.
Also replace the oem1.inf driver name with driver name of the driver you want to uninstall.

How to delete default drivers?

If I try this command with default drivers, I get

Found 1 driver package(s) to remove.Removing 1 of 1 - agp.inf: 
Error - The specified driver cannot be removed. Removing a default driver package is not supported.

Freebooter, GOD BLESS mate.

This is exactly what i was after.

I then run the export driver commands and set to my preferred destination.

 

Dism /image:D:\ /Export-Driver /Destination:<drive letter>:\<pre-existing folder name>

I have a total of 198 drivers in my list, and on offline RE screen does not allow to scroll from 0 to 198.

So i did the extraction on an external drive and was really hoping it would extract it as listed (oem0, oem1 etc).

I know my BSOD/STOP message with PNP DETECTED FATAL ERROR, is from a bad driver.

As this started only after i installed two different versions of the same software that one ouputs data to TCP and the other imports data from TCP.

So i am sure that the computer is being messed up at this point as its trying to load drivers to import and export data from TCP, at the same time, ending to STOP message.

Makes sense?

Is there a way to save the drivers as listed with oem0, oem1 names?

Again, i cant scroll through the full list, rather seeing a part of it.

Or maybe possible to see the list in a way similar to dir/p ??

Thanks,

the metalhead.

You can execute command as below to scroll through all of them.

Dism /image:D:\ /Get-Drivers | more

Thank you freebooter.

This was much better and was able to detect all drivers and uninstall. Though the PC still will not boot.

I will open a separate new topic in the forum with my findings so far.

Really do appreciate though the great info here.

You are very welcome!