How to Roll Back a Driver in Windows
The Roll Back Driver feature is used to uninstall the current driver for a hardware device and then automatically install the previously installed driver. The most common reason to use the driver roll back feature is to “reverse” a driver update that didn’t go well. Think of rolling back a driver as a quick and easy way to uninstall the latest driver, and then reinstall the previous one. The process is the same no matter what driver you need to roll back. When Windows starts again, it will load with the device driver for this hardware you had previously installed. If this message is hidden, closing the Control Panel window might help. You won’t be able to close Device Manager.
More About the Driver Roll Back Feature
Unfortunately, the Driver Roll Back feature is not available for printer drivers, as handy as that would be. It works only for hardware managed within Device Manager. Additionally, this only allows you to roll back a driver once. In other words, Windows only keeps a copy of the very last driver installed. It doesn’t store an archive of all the previously installed drivers for the device. If there’s no driver to roll back to, but you know there’s a previous version available you’d like to install, just “update” the driver with the older version. See How to Update Drivers in Windows if you need help doing that.
