I think i deleted a critical windows folder, how to get it back?

[rmarshall292]

I went in my program files on my main drive and saw a folder called DIFX, I thought it was part of a program I deleted long ago so I quickly deleted it without thinking. After being unsure after deleting it I looked it up and saw that it has to do with driver downloads. Is this a program I need or not? If I do how do I go about re-obtaining the program?

thankyou

 

[ava3a13]

If you have Windows 10, It's not a big deal. But if Windows 8.1you can just download WDK (Windows Driver Kit) https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/windows-driver-kit From here, And nothing to worry about, or you can just update your windows, which will redownload it.

 

[Rexper]

"The DIFx driver store is a repository for driver packages that is located on the computer's hard disk drive and is managed by Microsoft Windows Driver Install Frameworks (DIFx). DIFxApp, DPInst, and other DIFx tools use the driver store to store and retrieve driver packages."
- Microsoft's answer

Just go to your recycle bin. It will be located there, and you are able to restore it.

 

[rmarshall292]

If you have Windows 10, It's not a big deal. But if Windows 8.1you can just download WDK (Windows Driver Kit) https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/windows-driver-kit From here, And nothing to worry about, or you can just update your windows, which will redownload it.

Yeah I have windows 10, so I understand it's not important to have on it then?

 

[ava3a13]

If you have Windows 10, It's not a big deal. But if Windows 8.1you can just download WDK (Windows Driver Kit) https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/windows-driver-kit From here, And nothing to worry about, or you can just update your windows, which will redownload it.

Yeah I have windows 10, so I understand it's not important to have on it then?

No it's not, If you have all updates, they removed it from the system, so no worries my friend.