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We are now ready to being the uninstall process.

1) Go to your control panel and go to programs and features or add/remove progra ms 2) Uninstall the NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D Driver 3) Uninstall the NVIDIA PhysX STOP! - do not uninstall anything else. close the applications window.

Next navigate to your device manager. This can also be found in your control pan el.

In your device manager, navigate to the display adapters. Click on the little + button next to dispaly adapters and you should now see your graphics card listed . Right click on your graphics card and click uninstall. At this point a you'll get a pop up window- NOTE: be sure to put a check mark in the box to "delete the driver software for this device"

Now that your driver is uninstalled we need to delete the driver folders. These can be located in the following locations - C:/NVIDIA/ Delete the "DisplayDriver" folder

- C:/Program Files/ Delete the entire "NVIDIA Corporation" folder

Go to this folder c:/Windows/System32/DriverStore/FileRepository. Delete any fol der that begins with nv_disp.inf (make sure you are deleting the correct folder here) If you are unable to delete this folder, please see the bottom of this thr ead.

For 64bit OS users - C/Program Files (x86) Delete the entire "NVIDIA Corporation" folder

Optional step- you will lose any 3D game/program settings you may have altered i n the control panel - C/ProgramData Delete both the "NVIDIA" and "NVIDIA" Corporation folder

If for some reason you don't find some of these folders, that's ok.

Now before you do ANYTHING else, read these next steps until your are instructed to re-boot your pc.

1) You are going to reboot your pc in safe mode (press F8 as your computer boots up)(DON"T DO THIS NOW) 2) When options come up for safe mode, choose the first option on the list that only says "Safe Mode" (The one without networking)

*Note* Windows will install a generic VGA driver once you boot. That is totally fine and will not affect your install. There is no need to remove it.

Once your computer has booted and you now in windows safe mode

3) Open up Driver Sweeper application. 4) Put check marks in the boxes next to the following items - NVIDIA Display - NVIDIA PhysX 5) Click the Analyze button Once the program is done analyzing you should see a list of items with check mar ks next to all of them. If for some reason all the items do not have checkmarks, you can click the * button, then select and then all.

6) Now click the clean button 7) Once that has completed. Close the application and reboot your machine as nor mal.

If you do not think you can remember these steps then I suggest you copy and pas te this info into a word or text doc and save it on your desktop so you can refe rence it. Remember, you will not have internet access while you are performing t hese steps.

Once you have completed steps 1-7 you can proceed with the driver installation.

You may now go ahead and do steps 1-7 and then install your new drivers.

Happy New Drivers!!!

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Instructions on how to take ownership of file/folder so you can delete it.

1) Right click on the folder and go to properties. 2) A window will pop up and you need to go the "security" tab. 3) At the bottom next to where it says "For special permissions....." click the "advanced" button. 4) Another window will pop up and you need to go the "owner" tab. 5) At the bottom of this window, click the "edit" button and another window will pop up. 6) You will see a box in this window that says "Change owner to:" at the top. In this box, click/highlight the name that has "Administrators" in it. 7) Cick "Apply" and then "OK" to close that window. 8) Click "OK" to close the Advanced Security Settings window. 9) Click "OK" to close the properties window 10) Now, again right click on the folder and go to properties. 11) Again, a window will pop up and you need to go to the "security" tab. 12) Cick the "Edit" button next to where it says "To change permissions, click E dit." and another window will pop up. 13) In this new window, in the box under where it says "Group or user names:" cl ick/highlight "Everyone"

14) Now, in the box that says "Permissions for Everyone", click the box in the " Allow" Column next to "Full Control" 15) Cilck "Apply" and then ok to close the window. 16) Click "OK" to close the properties window.

You should now have permission to delete this folder.