As a rule, users of the standard eighth version of Windows are faced with the problem that the system asks to remove Sentinel Runtime Drivers when they try to update to version 8.1. Let's see why this is necessary and how to perform similar operations or updates in general using some standard techniques.
Sentinel Runtime Drivers: Problems Updating Windows 8
The saddest thing is that even when downloading the update package from the "Shop" service, which occupies 3.63 GB, the update for many users does not want to be installed.
At the same time, as already mentioned above, a message is issued about the need to uninstall the components of the 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 may be precisely in these settings.
Check for automatic updates
In the simplest case, you should go to the "Update Center" section and check whether the automatic update is enabled.
The point here is that to install the upgrade to 8.1, you first need to install the missing updates. Due to their absence in the “Store”, a link to the upgrade package may simply be absent.
In the corresponding section, even when the automatic update is enabled, you need to set the search for available updates in manual mode. Once they are found, you should use the 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 restarted, and then the upgrade will go automatically. Again, perhaps the system will be overloaded several times.
Here it is worth paying attention also to the fact that corporate or professional versions of the G8, which used the KMS activator, do not support a free upgrade. This applies equally to cases of using the so-called multiple activation keys.
Sentinel Runtime Drivers: How to Remove Components Using the Official Utility
Now directly about uninstalling. If you get a message asking about Sentinel Runtime Drivers how to remove them, it 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, move on to uninstalling the Sentinel Runtime Drivers. How to remove them? Easy peasy! After downloading the distribution package, you need to open the archive and find the haspdinst file with the .exe extension in it and transfer it to the root of the system partition (drive C).
Now you should run the command line with administrator rights, then register the command with: \ haspdinst.exe –purge and press the enter key. Note that the line must be registered manually, and not copied from some text fragment. In the case of copying with subsequent paste, the command will not work. Then you just have to wait until the script is completed, and after that it will be possible to upgrade the system to version 8.1 without any problems.
Conclusion
This is the case with the components of the Sentinel Runtime Drivers. How to remove them, if you really need it, is probably already clear. 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 should be entered manually from the keyboard. Otherwise, it will not take effect. Well, the script is fully automatic, 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 required here.
Finally, it remains to add that it is impossible to remove these components in the form of SYS system files in any case, since in this situation the system may turn out to be completely inoperative.