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If Dolby Digital Theater is built into Windows 10 should I delete my old Dolby Digital Plus Home Theater program on my PC?

Anonymous
2017-10-21T23:46:21+00:00

If Dolby Digital Theater is built into window 10 should I delete my old Dolby Digital Plus Home Theater program on my PC?

After updating to the new Windows 10 1709 update I am getting an error from my PC program (Dolby Digital Plus Home Theater) saying that the driver expected is version 7.5.1.1 but version 7.6.4.9 is installed

Since Windows 10 includes a built-in Dolby Digital Theater can I delete my PC program. When I checked my PC program it thinks it has the correct driver but Windows 10 must have updated the driver it uses. ????

Any opinions?

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[Original title: If Dolby Digital Theater in built into window 10 should I delete my old Dolby Digital Plus Home Theater program on my PC?]

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-10-29T19:26:57+00:00

    Hello Tom,

    These errors normally appear due to driver incompatibility. To answer your question, you may uninstall the old driver and get the latest/updated compatible driver for your Windows 10 version from the program developer's website.

    Thank you.

    Thanks for the reply but as mentioned in other questions about this same question. I don't want to remove a driver just to go back to an older version.

    My PC came with "Dolby Digital Plus Home Theater" software installed. This PC is several years old and until I installed the Windows 10 1709 update I didn't get the message "driver expected is version 7.5.1.1 but version 7.6.4.9 is installed".

    If Window 10 update 1709 includes a driver for its Dolby Home Theater software then I may be able to uninstall my old PC's "Dolby Digital Plus Home Theater" and just run the software included with Windows 10.

    Window 10 now includes a PDF reader. So I uninstalled my PC copy of Adobe's PDF reader software. Since I don't need or use Adobe's software for anything else it is best for me to uninstall it and just use the PDF reader in Windows 10.

    If this is true for a PDF reader the same may be true for the Dolby Home Theater software.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-10-22T01:43:04+00:00

    Hello Tom,

    These errors normally appear due to driver incompatibility. To answer your question, you may uninstall the old driver and get the latest/updated compatible driver for your Windows 10 version from the program developer's website.

    Thank you.

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