Is it possibe to restart the display driver during a normal desktop session ?
In the driver section of "Computer Management" there is no option.
But possibly there is some tool or command line to do so?
Is it possibe to restart the display driver during a normal desktop session ?
In the driver section of "Computer Management" there is no option.
But possibly there is some tool or command line to do so?
I did a lot of research to derive my answer. Hope this helps! A display driver is just a driver for your graphics card. You can find out exactly where it is (if you don't know already) by going [Search > Device Manager > Display Adapters > (Your Graphics Card) > Properties > Driver > Driver Details]. Now download Device Console, or DevCon for short. Run it in Administrator mode, then use the restart command to reset your driver! You will need to find the driver's hardware ID in order to do so.
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, and this basically works; I just need to setup out a command line version. As for devcon
, there seems to be a more updated version, which is included in the windows 8.1 driver development kit. I will give it try.