Integrated drivers consuming space, how to delete them?

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I've made a customised Windows 10 ISO with integrating all of the drivers for all of my systems, the problem is the ISO size has increased, which is, quite obviously, & I can bear with that. But the real problem that I am facing, & writing this query here, s that, all the driver files that I've added is now also placed in the System (C) drive after installing windows via that customised made ISO, & taking up 60gb of my C drive after a fresh install, so the C drive is now literally out of space & showing Red bar (As usual by default Windows settings) for low space,

So I just wanna know the path where all those drives are being stored in C drive, I believe it's somewhere in the C:\Windows location but don't know the exact DIR so if anyone know, kindly let me know about the correct path/DIR of those drivers & also how to delete all/some of those driver files, can I just manually delete them from Windows interface or I need to do any special kind of tricks via NTLite or anything?

I hope to get some help in here, tagging nuhi so that you can shade some light in this regard. Thanks.
 
Sometimes you should integrate only the driver but exclude video and audio, sometimes WLAN installer takes 200 MB - 300 MB and some installers installs to C:\"brand" or C:\Drivers
 
Kasual said:
Sometimes you should integrate only the driver but exclude video and audio, sometimes WLAN installer takes 200 MB - 300 MB and some installers installs to C:\"brand" or C:\Drivers
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thanks for replying, but unfortunately there is no C:\"brand" or C:\Drivers folder as you mentioned, I suspect all those drivers are deeply buried under the C:\Windows folder, somewhere under system32 or something similar, but don't know exactly the path hence asked here, hope someone can help.
 
SM03 64bit windows -
C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository - the main driver repository.
C:\Windows\System32\DRVSTORE - AMD chipset installer puts the USB Filter driver here.
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\DriverStore\FileRepository
Set the folder view to Details, sort by Date Modified in ascending order. These are the main storage folders, once the os installs a driver the sys cat and inf files get put into other places and i forget where. When ntlite removes drivers its from those folders and winsxs(possibly).

AMD and Nvidia installers extract to C:\AMD and C:\Nvidia and the os puts those files where it wants them. Realtek doesnt, it puts its files into Program Files.
 
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SM03 64bit windows -
C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository - the main driver repository.
C:\Windows\System32\DRVSTORE - AMD chipset installer puts the USB Filter driver here.
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\DriverStore\FileRepository
Set the folder view to Details, sort by Date Modified in ascending order. These are the main storage folders, once the os installs a driver the sys cat and inf files get put into other places and i forget where. When ntlite removes drivers its from those folders and winsxs(possibly).

AMD and Nvidia installers extract to C:\AMD and C:\Nvidia and the os puts those files where it wants them. Realtek doesnt, it puts its files into Program Files.
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thanks, I will try to find out in those DIR, BTW< one thing to clear, here I am talking about all the integrated drivers that I've added while customising the Win ISO via NTLite, not the installed driver, I think both of you assumed my query in another way around, so just to clarify that.
 
Manually installing drivers in Device Manager puts them there too because thats how i install drivers.

Where does nuhi put them into a wim? Dont know, he would tell ya.
 
Clanger said:
Manually installing drivers in Device Manager puts them there too because thats how i install drivers.

Where does nuhi put them into a wim? Dont know, he would tell ya.
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That's why I tagged him in my OP, but as we can see, didn't get any reply from him so far, let's see.
 
Clanger said:
Manually installing drivers in Device Manager puts them there too because thats how i install drivers.

Where does nuhi put them into a wim? Dont know, he would tell ya.
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Well, today, I dig further, & found it, just thought to share with you, it's the C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository that's consuming the space (60GB) & where all the driver files are being stored that I've added via NTLite. Guess, I've to make another clean reinstallation of the Windows to get rid of this.

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