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How to restore drivers with the Driver Genius driver auto-installer

If you’ve used Driver Genius to create a driver auto-installer, you can use it to restore individual drivers.

And it only takes few simple steps to do.

Here’s how you do it…

Step 1 — Launch the driver auto-installer

Open My Computer (or wherever the folder is you saved the driver auto-installer to).

Driver Genius driver auto-installer in folder

Double click the icon to launch it.

Step 2 — Select the driver to restore

All the drivers will be selected by default.

selecting a driver to restore with the Driver Genius driver auto-installer

Uncheck all but the driver you want to restore.

I’m going to restore my modem driver.

Click Start Restore.

Step 3 — Restore your driver

You’ll now get a pop-up message asking if you want to restore the driver.

confirm you want the Driver Genius driver auto-installer to restore your driver

Click Yes to confirm.

The window will be greyed-out while your driver is restored.

the greyed out Driver Genius driver auto-installer window

After a few seconds the window will become active again.

Driver Genius driver auto-installer window active again

Click Finish.

Step 4 — Restart your computer

You’ll now be prompted to restart your computer for the restore process to take effect.

Driver Genius driver auto-installer restart your computer message

It’s up to you whether you restart it now or later.

Click Yes or No — either way, the auto-installer will close.

And that’s it. Done.

Any questions?

Please use the comments form below or contact me if you have any questions about using Driver Genius.

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