DriverStoreExplorer VS 0install

When asking questions like this, consider using something like DriverStoreExplorer. It can help you deduce what version is lower then the one you are currently seeing in updates. Also, to clean out any unwanted, unused and old driver versions.

You can try manually uninstalling the outdated driver with the open source project Driver Store Explorer from GitHub.

- Remove all past sound drivers using (the installer sometimes does not remove all drivers): DriverStore Explorer or Uninstall Nahimic Realtek

Driver Store Explorer

1. Download Driver Explorer.

Remove A-volute/Sonic studio from your computer. By uninstalling it from device manager under the Audio tab then completely remove all related files by using DriverStore Explorer and select any driver related to sonic studio and delete it.

I did find several mentions of the Synapse 3 software and issues with THX and that, but I'm not installing Synapse 3 as I have no devices that need it. In the instructions tho, I found the Razer Driver Clean Up Tool: https://rzr.to/Tf53xj and I tried using that and it says that it cleaned the driver files out. Turns out it didn't remove the rxthxspatial.inf which I found out by running the DriverStoreExplorer from here: https://github.com/lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer/releases

Checking for processes to terminate: * C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\0install.net\implementations\sha256new_WNVUT4A7COIHUPNX3HWQQZD5BU3GEPFRMM3BLVJW4ICRXIJEKBJQ\CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess.exe (PID: 3484) [UP-HEUR] * C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\0install.net\implementations\sha256new_WNVUT4A7COIHUPNX3HWQQZD5BU3GEPFRMM3BLVJW4ICRXIJEKBJQ\CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess.exe (PID: 13500) [UP-HEUR] * C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\0install.net\implementations\sha256new_WNVUT4A7COIHUPNX3HWQQZD5BU3GEPFRMM3BLVJW4ICRXIJEKBJQ\CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess.exe (PID: 13464) [UP-HEUR] * C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\0install.net\implementations\sha256new_WNVUT4A7COIHUPNX3HWQQZD5BU3GEPFRMM3BLVJW4ICRXIJEKBJQ\CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess.exe (PID: 13972) [UP-HEUR] * C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\0install.net\implementations\sha256new_WNVUT4A7COIHUPNX3HWQQZD5BU3GEPFRMM3BLVJW4ICRXIJEKBJQ\CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess.exe (PID: 3352) [UP-HEUR]

Sounds like https://0install.net which has been around for a while.

Personally I prefer to avoid 'installing' anything: if something's written in Java, its launcher should reference some specific java binary; if something's written in Python, it should reference some specific python3 binary; etc.

For example, my job is mostly writing Scala and building it with Maven; yet I have neither installed system-wide. Instead, they're just dependencies of the build script.

It seems more like a package manager. https://0install.net/

The article mentions Snap, AppImage and FlatPak, but there is also a much older system called 0install (zero install) that was started in 2003 or so [1].

I wonder why that never took off.

[1] https://zero-install.sourceforge.net/roadmap.html (note this is the old website; the new website is https://0install.net - looks like it's still getting releases in October this year)

Zero Install (GitHub)