Hardware & Driver Notes

What JarvisOS removes from the driver store and how to manage hardware on a clean install.

Hardware & Driver Notes

JarvisOS removes legacy driver packages that modern developer workstations will never use. This reduces the driver store footprint, shrinks non-paged pool memory usage, and keeps the boot process lean.

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What Gets Removed

Legacy Print Drivers

Hundreds of megabytes of bundled HP, Canon, Brother, and Epson printer driver packages are removed. The Print Spooler service is disabled by default.

Obsolete Network Drivers

Legacy dial-up modem, ISDN adapter, and outdated 10/100 Ethernet card support is stripped. Modern NIC drivers are unaffected.

Unused Bluetooth Profiles

Legacy Bluetooth stacks and older profile handlers not relevant to modern developer hardware.

Legacy Storage Controllers

Obsolete IDE and SCSI controller drivers removed. NVMe, SATA, and USB storage are fully preserved.

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Installing Your Own Drivers

JarvisOS does not fetch drivers via Windows Update by default. Get them directly from your hardware manufacturer — cleaner, faster, no bundled software.

Hardware	Recommended Source
NVIDIA GPU	nvidia.com/drivers
AMD GPU	amd.com/support
Intel GPU	intel.com/content/www/us/en/support
AMD Chipset	AMD’s chipset driver page directly
Intel Chipset	Intel’s DSA (Driver & Support Assistant)
Audio	Realtek, Creative, etc. — bare driver INF preferred
Network	Intel / Realtek NIC drivers — skip management software

For NVIDIA: Use NVCleanstall to install GPU drivers without GeForce Experience, telemetry modules, or the control panel bloat.

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Using Windows Update for Drivers (One-Time)

If you need Windows Update to fetch a driver that is not available directly:

1. Open AtlasOS Toolbox from your desktop
2. Go to Windows Update → Enable
3. Run Windows Update — install only what you need
4. Go back to Windows Update → Disable

Do not leave Windows Update permanently enabled. Microsoft may push updates that restore mitigated components or re-enable telemetry services.

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Memory Impact

By removing legacy driver packages from the Windows Driver Store:

• Non-paged pool memory freed: ~150MB
• Boot time reduction on NVMe: ~2–3 seconds
• Driver Store size reduction: 400MB+

These are not gaming-focused optimizations — they are general system hygiene that benefits compile times, VM startup, and terminal responsiveness.

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Peripheral Hardware

If you use specialized hardware (drawing tablets, audio interfaces, custom peripherals), install drivers manually from the manufacturer’s website. JarvisOS will not auto-fetch them.

# Check what drivers are currently installed
Get-WmiObject Win32_PnPSignedDriver | Select-Object DeviceName, DriverVersion, Manufacturer

For generic printer support without OEM bloat:

app-fetch drivers --generic-printers