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Is there a way to manually restart the graphics drivers in Windows XP?

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Mar 15, 20263400 views

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When graphics drivers crash in XP, but don't cause a blue screen, windows starts a fallback driver (I think it's 640x480 in 4-bit color). When that happens, is there any way to cause the original drivers to reload without having to restart the system? (I know Win7 does it for me automatically)

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I don't think so, I think this was something new added in Vista or 7.

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Is there a way to manually restart the graphics drivers in Windows XP?

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