If you try to uninstall the driver using the Conexant uninstaller, it just disables the driver but it doesn’t uninstall it. And no guide mentions this.īy default, Windows prefers the Conexant driver over the default one from Microsoft, making Windows Update to download and install it automatically. There, Windows has a local catalog of all the drivers that have been installed on your machine as well as a copy of them, and one of its uses is to provide the user with the ability to swap between certain drivers without having to reinstall them (the list of drivers that appears when you use the “Choose from a list of drivers available on your PC” option on the Device Manager is a mirror of the Driver Store).
Windows has sort of a local driver archive on each PC named “Driver Store”.