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If you really want to know I'll tell you, but if you do this, whatever happens is not my fault...you did it, not me.

Now, I did this with SP1 installed; not SP2. So what differences are now, I don't know because I haven't looked into it. Good Luck. Just don't come whinning to me if you don't read the instructions carefully and something goes wrong...or, even if anything goes wrong.

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers

Ah. This is a tricky one, and will require some effort on your part.

This is a list of what I believe are universal drivers used on most systems...and which I keep on my system...usually because my system won't reboot if I don't...which seems like a fairly good reason, don't you think?

If you want to know which drivers YOUR system needs outside of the universal drivers I have listed below, you will need to look inside your Layout.ini file in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers.

ACPI.sys

AEC.SYS

AFD.SYS

atapi.sys

AUDSTUB.SYS

BEEP.SYS

CDAUDIO.SYS

Cdfs.sys

CDROM.SYS

CLASSPNP.SYS

disk.sys

DMUSIC.SYS

DRMK.SYS

DRMKAUD.SYS

DXAPI.SYS

DXG.SYS

DXGTHK.SYS

FDC.SYS

FIPS.SYS

FLPYDISK.SYS

FS_REC.SYS

GAMEENUM.SYS

IMAPI.SYS

IPSEC.SYS

isapnp.sys

KBDCLASS.SYS

KMIXER.SYS

KS.SYS

MNMDD.SYS

MODEM.SYS

MODEMCSA.SYS

MOUCLASS.SYS

MountMgr.sys

Msfs.sys

MSGPC.SYS

Mup.sys

NDIS.sys

NDISTAPI.SYS

NDISWAN.SYS

NDPROXY.SYS

NETBT.SYS

Npfs.sys

Ntfs.sys

NULL.SYS

PARPORT.SYS

PartMgr.sys

PARVDM.SYS

pci.sys

PCIIDEX.SYS

PTILINK.SYS

RASACD.SYS

RASL2TP.SYS

RASPPPOE.SYS

RASPPTP.SYS

RASPTI.SYS

RDPCDD.SYS

REDBOOK.SYS

SCSIPORT.SYS

SERENUM.SYS

SERIAL.SYS

SFLOPPY.SYS

SPLITTER.SYS

SWENUM.SYS

SWMIDI.SYS

SYSAUDIO.SYS

TCPIP.SYS

TDI.SYS

TERMDD.SYS

UPDATE.SYS

USBD.SYS

USBHUB.SYS

USBPORT.SYS

USBUHCI.SYS

VGA.SYS

VIDEOPRT.SYS

VolSnap.sys

WANARP.SYS

WDMAUD.SYS

WMILIB.SYS

Thanks to precjedniks for leading me to conclude that I also need these drivers, and I am fairly certain that these, too, we almost all need on our systems:

asyncmac.sys

ctlfacem.sys

ctljystk.sys

dmio.sys

dmload.sys

emu10k1m.sys

mrxsmb.sys

MSPCLOCK.sys

MSPQM.sys

netbios.sys

processr.sys

psched.sys

rdbss.sys

rdpdr.sys

sfmanm.sys

stream.sys

Now here's the tricky part. These are MY individual drivers that I need in addition to the ones listed above:

agp440.sys

ASPI32.SYS

CTAC32K.SYS

CTAUD2K.SYS

CTPRXY2K.SYS

CTOSS2K.SYS

CTSFM2K.SYS

Defrag32.sys

Defrag32b.sys

ELBYCDFL.SYS

ELBYCDIO.SYS

ELBYDELAY.SYS

ElbyVCD.sys

EMUPIA2K.SYS

Fastfat.sys

ftdisk.sys

HA10KX2K.SYS

I8042PRT.SYS

intelide.sys

KSecDD.sys

NV4_MINI.SYS

P3.SYS

PORTCLS.SYS

RAMDISK.SYS

SAVRT.SYS

SAVRTPEL.SYS

SYMREDRV.SYS

SYMTDI.SYS

Teefer.sys

ultra.sys

USR1806V.SYS

WG3N.SYS

WPSDRVNT.SYS

This is where YOUR effort comes in. If you want to know which drivers YOUR system needs outside of the universal drivers I have listed above, you will need to look inside your Layout.ini file in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers.

Please be careful with this one, it really can cause you unnecessary grief when you delete the wrong drivers.

I myself delete these drivers below...and they seem fairly benign..but again, check your Layout.ini file to see if you need any of them:

acpiec.sys

amdk6.sys

amdk7.sys

arp1394.sys

ati2mtaa.sys

ati2mtag.sys

atinbtxx.sys

atinmdxx.sys

atinpdxx.sys

atinraxx.sys

atinrvxx.sys

atinsnxx.sys

atinttxx.sys

atintuxx.sys

atinxbxx.sys

atinxsxx.sys

atmarpc.sys

atmepvc.sys

atmlane.sys

atmuni.sys

bridge.sys

cbidf2k.sys

cinemst2.sys

cpqdap01.sys

crusoe.sys

diskdump.sys

dmboot.sys

el90Xbc5.SYS

fsvga.sys

gm.dls

hidclass.sys

hidir.sys

hidparse.sys

imagedrv.sys

ipfltdrv.sys

ipinip.sys

ipnat.sys

ipvnmon.sys

irenum.sys

mcd.sys

mf.sys

mrxdav.sys

mskssrv.sys

msscript.ocx

mutohpen.sys

ndisuio.sys

netwlan5.img

nic1394.sys

nikedrv.sys

nmnt.sys

nv4.sys

nwlnkflt.sys

nwlnkfwd.sys

nwlnkipx.sys

nwlnknb.sys

nwlnkspx.sys

oprghdlr.sys

pcmcia.sys

PQNTDRV.sys

rawwan.sys

rdpwd.sys

rio8drv.sys

riodrv.sys

RMCast.sys

rndismp.sys

rootmdm.sys

Savrt.cat

Savrt.inf

Savrtpel.cat

Savrtpel.inf

secdrv.sys

smbali.sys

smclib.sys

sonydcam.sys

sr.sys

srv.sys

symdns.sys

SYMEVENT.SYS

symfw.sys

symids.sys

symndis.sys

SymRedir.cat

SymRedir.inf

tape.sys

tcpip6.sys

tdpipe.sys

tdtcp.sys

tosdvd.sys

tsbvcap.sys

tunmp.sys

udfs.sys

usb8023.sys

usbcamd.sys

usbcamd2.sys

usbehci.sys

usbintel.sys

usbprint.sys

vdmindvd.sys

wacompen.sys

ws2ifsl.sys

I don't care about removing of what I don't use. I just don't want to have to reinstall once I upgrade my CPU or motherboard

Then shouldn't your question have been, do I have to re-install Windows after hooking up my new stuff?

Maybe I'm reading this wrong...which is usually the case.

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