Remove Hardware Profiles from the registry

[cornell]

Can anyone advise the right way to remove a hardware profile from the registry? (Control panel / system / hardware /hardware profiles / delete doesn't work)

More info:

I've a Dell Laptop, I used hardware profiles to distinquish replicator ports or undocked, etc. I observed a growing discrepancy between that which is listed in the system / hardware / hardware profiles window, and that in the boot menu.

So, cleaning up, I went to hardware profiles and deleted all but the current. Boot menu still shows previous list. Further investigation indicates that the "delete" is basically some kind of "lose the name, keep everything else" function. After copying the current profile, and noting that it is several lines below the current, I discovered that the blank lines are undeleted profiles that I'd deleted.

I've tried to remove them (except the current) from the registry, and apparently there are other keys referencing them. I can no longer create copies, it complains of being out of space. When exiting, I get: "An exception occurred while trying to run "C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\WINDOWS\system32\sysdm.cpl",System" All other things seem normal

Thanks in advance

Cornell

[JedMeister]

I have no experience with hardware profiles but when you speak of the boot menu do you mean boot.ini menu? (Assuming we're talking XP here? If not just ignore me!) If you are then you could just remove them from boot.ini leaving only the one you want? Make sure you back it up in case you delete the wrong one and need to recover it using recovery console!

[cornell]

I have no experience with hardware profiles but when you speak of the boot menu do you mean boot.ini menu? (Assuming we're talking XP here? If not just ignore me!) If you are then you could just remove them from boot.ini leaving only the one you want? Make sure you back it up in case you delete the wrong one and need to recover it using recovery console!

No, I don't think so... I looked at that and it has no list. (Of course, now that I have only one, I'm no longer offered a list, so maybe it is the boot.ini ;-) )

Anyway, yes, Windows XP... when I would turn the machine on, and before windows started, I was offered a list of hardware configurations from which to choose. NOw, since I've only one hardware profile, I"m no longer offered a list.