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When and how to restore your local driver backups

Posted on October 28, 2019 at 01:10 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

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By Fred Langa

In a recent column, I showed how to make local backup copies of all your system’s installed drivers.

That article prompted a number of readers to ask for the reciprocal story: how to reinstall those previously saved drivers.

So, here’s when and how — and how not — to put those backup copies to good use!

Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.39.0 (2019-10-28).

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