Sentinel Runtime Drivers: how to remove components for system upgrade?

As a rule, with the problem that the system asks for the removal of Sentinel Runtime Drivers, users of the standard eighth version of Windows are faced when trying to update to version 8.1. Let's see why this is necessary and how to make similar operations or update in general with the help of some standard techniques.

Sentinel Runtime Drivers: Problems with Windows 8 Upgrade

The saddest thing is that even when downloading the update package from the "Store" service, which occupies 3.63 GB, many users do not want to update.

In this case, as already mentioned above, a message is displayed on the need to uninstall the components of Sentinel Runtime Drivers. How to remove them, while we will not consider. First, let's pay attention to the state of the system in terms of automatic update. Sometimes the reason can be precisely in these settings.

Check for automatic updates

In the simplest version, enter the "Update Center" section and check whether the automatic update is enabled.

The point here is that to install an upgrade to 8.1 you must first install the missing updates. Because of their absence in the "Store", the link to the upgrade package may simply be absent.

In the corresponding section, even with the automatic update enabled, you must specify the search for available updates in the manual mode. Once they are found, you should use a link pointing to the available important updates and the button below for immediate installation. At the end of the process, the computer will be completely rebooted, and then the upgrade will go in automatic mode. Again, it is possible that the system will be overloaded several times.

Here we should also pay attention to the fact that corporate or professional versions of the G8, in which the KMS activator was used, do not support a free upgrade. Equally, this applies to the use of so-called multiple activation keys.

Sentinel Runtime Drivers: how to remove components using the official utility

Now directly about uninstalling. If you receive a message with a request about Sentinel Runtime Drivers, how to remove them will be clear if you use the simple Command Line Run-Time Installer utility, which can be downloaded as an archive from the official Microsoft resource.

Finally, proceed to uninstall Sentinel Runtime Drivers. How do I delete them? As easy as pie! After downloading the distribution you need to open the archive and find the haspdinst file in it with the extension .exe and transfer it to the root of the system partition (drive C).

Now start the command line with admin rights, then register the command with: \ haspdinst.exe -purge and press the enter key. Note that the line must be written manually, and not copied from some text fragment. In case of copying with subsequent insertion, the command does not work. Then you just have to wait for the script to finish execution, and after that it will be possible to upgrade the system to 8.1 without any problems.

Conclusion

This is the case with the components of Sentinel Runtime Drivers. How to remove them, if it really is needed, is probably already understandable. In principle, no difficulties in the process of using the official utility should arise. But once again I want to emphasize that, firstly, the command line should be launched exclusively at the administrator level, and secondly, the command must be entered manually from the keyboard. Otherwise, it has no effect. Well, the script works completely automatically, so the user will only have to sit and watch. As you can see, everything is incredibly simple, and special knowledge and skills are not needed here.

Finally it remains to add that you can not delete these components in the form of system files of the SYS format in any case, because in this situation the system may be completely inoperable.