Open a command prompt window as an administrator. What we can do is rename the driver file in question, which will force Windows to either load a default driver or to ignore the hardware until you can download a fresh driver. If for some reason your system won’t allow you to uninstall the driver in the traditional manner, we can perform some command line magic to address the issue. Although, given that Windows 10 has been out over a year now, there really is no excuse for any relatively recent hardware to not have a compatible driver. Even if the driver isn’t natively Windows 10 compatible, Windows 10 should play nicely with it. In the vast majority of cases, replacing the driver with the newest Windows 10 release will fix the issue.
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Download and install the latest Windows 10 compatible driver from the manufacture’s website and install.Find the driver in question and uninstall it completely.Select ‘Uninstall a Program’ underneath Programs.Right click on the Windows Start button and select Control Panel.Identify the driver file mentioned in the brackets in the error.To quickly fix DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL errors in Windows 10, we should remove and replace the driver in question.
If your computer BSODs during boot, you will have to load into Safe Mode from the installation media before trying it. If it’s the latter, you can perform these steps from the desktop. Depending on what driver is erroring depends on whether you get a BSOD during boot or just when you load the app that calls the driver. There are a couple of ways to handle this error.