You will have to be logged on to the system as a User with ‘Administrator’ permissions in order to perform these stepsġ. If you do not wish to take this risk, please do not follow this procedure Plugable will not be able to help restore any data or return a system to a working state should things not work as expected. (This problem does not occur on Apple Mac systems.)īefore proceeding with this or any other procedure that makes changes to your system, please ensure you have a full system backup of any and all important data and create a fresh System Restore Point as a precaution. This prevents proper management of Thunderbolt devices on the host system. Synopsis – If your Thunderbolt 3 driver or utility version types are mismatched within a Windows host system, you may receive an error message stating, “Application Cannot run – This Thunderbolt application is not in use anymore and can be safely uninstalled” when attempting to run the Intel Thunderbolt Software management utility or the Intel Thunderbolt Control Center utility.