So at this point I seemed to recall that there was a way to back-up third party drivers on a Windows 10 based device using PowerShell. Like many of you I did not save those downloads so they are not available as a backup even on my own network storage drive where I keep things like that for posterity. No driver downloads means no clean installs because several of the drivers on each device are not included in the box with Windows 10. While all of this is great there is now an issue for owners of these two popular tablets. When the Windows 10 April 2018 Update was released back in early April I was able to easily do in place upgrades on both of those tablets thanks to updates made during the Redstone 4 development process. That is unfortunate because there is a lot of life left in these devices. A lot of folks bought them but now it appears support is being deprecated by their manufacturer. The TM101W610L Solo Draw 10 inch tablet and the TM800W610L 8 inch tablet were sold at significant discounts through the Microsoft Store a couple of holiday seasons ago. This is disappointing because I imagine there are a lot of folks with these two specific tablet models. I went and checked things out and this was in fact the case. However, in recent days I have been getting emails from readers stating that the updated download page is still there but any attempt to download drivers from the included links is now failing to find those drivers. I added the updated link to the drivers and moved on from that challenge.
That updated address did allow me to access those drivers and I was able to document and perform that clean install last fall without issue.
At least that is what a company rep told me via phone support when I called looking for the drivers because my articles link were showing them as not being found on their original page. The manufacturer had relocated the driver downloads for their older Windows tablets because they were in the process of updating their download center for those drivers. I recently added an update to one of my most popular articles here at WindowsObserver concerning the clean install process for two NuVision Windows 10 based tablets.
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