Windows – How to remove”simatic shell” from the pc

You can remove the old drivers with the inbox tool pnputil.exe

• run pnputil -e > C:\drivers.txt

  

• open the file drivers.txt and look which .inf file is associated with the driver you want to remove

• run pnputil.exe -d oem<NUMBER>.inf

This removes the driver correctly. If this is too complicated, you can use the tool DriverStore Explorer [RAPR]

Click on enumerate, select the 215 driver and click on Delete Package.

Here are the steps to prevent that windows installs the driver again.

From: Remove 3D Objects Folder from This PC in Windows 10

Copy these lines to Notepad and save the file with .REG extension (3dobjects.reg)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{0DB7E03F-FC29-4DC6-9020-FF41B59E513A}]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{0DB7E03F-FC29-4DC6-9020-FF41B59E513A}]

Double-click the REG file to run it.

This removes 3D Objects shell folder from This PC.