Besides, if manufacturers really wanted to help their users, they would be using WCID in their devices to make the need to manually install the WinUSB driver obsolete, be it through Zadig or other means. I'd really like to have the opportunity to provide a dumbed down version of Zadig, that adds a lot of hand holding and driver restoration, but that's just too much effort. Yes, unfortunately, Zadig has been victim of its own success, and is now being used by people who don't understand its interface (you are supposed to be able to recognize and select the one device you want to install the driver for in the dropdown list, and only ever apply changes for that device!), and therefore end up doing things they shouldn't be doing.

What is did was follow what was at not one but few times recommended approach for using zadig.

Then again, this project is Open Source, so if anybody wants to invest the time required to do so, they are very welcome to send a patch. Considering that Zadig/libwdi is targeted at people who have a minimum knowledge of what they are doing, I have no plans to add such a feature. I'd love zadig to have a 'remove changes' button so it returns the system to a clean state.Īs indicated here, the time I can spend on Zadig/libwdi is very limited (this is only one of the many Open Source projects I am involved with), and adding extensive hand holding and reverting features to an application such as Zadig would be very time consuming (a lot more than people imagine). If you choose to ignore the big warning it produces when doing so, the responsibility is entirely yours. Zadig is designed to be able to replace HID drivers if this is what you want (because, if you know what you are doing, there do exist cases where this is what you want). A driver installation is NOT a benign operation, and as much as some people may think otherwise, Zadig is a powerful tool, that you can use to shoot yourself in the foot, so you are expected to have a minimum knowledge about driver installation operation. If you choose to ignore warnings such as these, and try things at random (such as installing the WCID driver, which is unlikely to help), then it's up to you to fix the issues you created. Also, PLEASE pay attention to the big warning Zadig shows when you are about to replace an HID driver:

How to uninstall zadig driver