Need help cleaning ATI drivers !

[Psychosomatic]

I have a graphics driver cleaner but im not to sure if i should do what it asks me to do. Ive tryed to make things better in the past and just f**ked things um.

In the readme.txt that came with the driver cleaner it says...................

ATI:
1. Unplug nic card or modem from net or disconnect
2. Remove ATI driver from add/remove programs then remove the control panel from add/remove programs
3. Reboot into safe mode (F8 during boot up)
4. On reboot into safe mode WinXP SP1/SP2 will auto detect and install drivers. Just let it do its thing. If you can cancel out of the auto install hardware wizard then skip the rest and run Driver Cleaner! If you can NOT cancel out of auto detect wizard then...
5. Navigate to device mgr->display adapter->uninstall and/or remove ATI display adapter but do not reboot
6. Disable any AntiVirus Software (If you don't disable is than it could give trouble)
7. Run Cab Cleaner (not needed, but recommended)
8. Run Driver Cleaner
9. Empty recycle bin and reboot
10. Install the new drivers and control panel

Im not sure if i should do what it ask me to do !

Is it right ? Will it work ? & is it safe to do ?

[megawhompertoo]

Re: Need help cleaning ATI drivers !

Until recently, ATI had a driver cleaner utility on their website. Unfortunately, they've taken it down since 6.4. For my last driver update, (6.7) I just uninstalled the old ones, rebooted, and installed the new ones after closing all programs.

Never have understood all the extra steps. I do reinstall windows every six-eight months, though, so I could see where not "cleaning" old drivers and registry entries could get to be a little bit of a syshog if you're running the same windows install that was originally put on the hd.

Sounds to me like you may be making things a little tough on yourself.