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When you uninstall driver and other programs, most of the time you have to restart your PC.
Is there any reason you don't want to restart your PC?
You may complete your works and then restart your PC.
uninstall xbox controller driver
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yan yin
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HI
I have some USB audio devices, it can be enumerated as a xbox controller HID device，and can be usd as a audio device；But I found that with the increase of the number of equipments， the number of driver is increasing，I want to uninsatll the xbox driver,
but after uninstall the driver I have to reboot the PC，is there any way to remove the driver and
there is no need to reboot the PC？？Is there any buffer need to be removed?
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Reza-Ameri 17,341 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2022-05-12T15:52:09.007+00:00 -
yan yin 1 Reputation point
2022-05-13T01:12:41.58+00:00 Restart PC will take some time, I think if I find the driver in the PC，I can remove it instead of restart PC.
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Reza-Ameri 17,341 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2022-05-13T16:17:24.263+00:00 Normally even if you remove it, normally you need to restart your PC.
I advise you to perform this action when you have some free time, and you won't use your PC.
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yan yin 1 Reputation point
2022-05-14T01:07:58.16+00:00 can you help to find the xbox driver，I want to try it,thanks.
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yan yin 1 Reputation point
2022-05-14T06:37:16.43+00:00 Why this audio device will increase when I plug in a new product?
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yan yin 1 Reputation point
2022-05-14T06:37:53.303+00:00 Is there any way to lock the number?
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Reza-Ameri 17,341 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2022-05-14T16:12:48.327+00:00 Normally it should be installed through the Windows Update and when you update the Windows.
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S.Sengupta 24,476 Reputation points MVP2022-05-14T14:51:40.65+00:00 I shall suggest you to post here:
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Limitless Technology 39,921 Reputation points2022-05-17T07:51:34.707+00:00 Hello
Thank you for your question and reaching out.
I can understand you are having some queries related to avoid Reboot of PC after removing of Drivers.Minimizing restarts when updating file-backed drivers :
Prior to Windows 10, all kernel-mode drivers were backed by the system's paging file. As a result, a driver binary could be overwritten on disk even while the driver was running.To improve performance, starting with Windows 10, most non-boot-start drivers are instead backed by the driver binary on disk.
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