betamax Posted October 11, 2005 Posted October 11, 2005 Hello,I'm trying to completely wipe out any remnants of a device driver I installed for an FA312 ethernet card. Going to device manager, right clicking the device, and clicking uninstall is not enough. You see, the computer crashed while installing the driver initially, when it restarted, it installed the driver again. Now my ethernet card is always listed as "NETGEAR Ethernet Deivce #2". I went into the registry to search for FA312 and I found quite a few things related to the Netgear card. Alot of the keys were named numerically (000, 001, 002, 003). The netgear stuff was located in 001.Would it be safe to remove an 001 key and leave the rest, or will that screw up some sort of indexing? I'll post the actual locations of the keys later if you need them. I'm just trying to find out what keys I can get rid of.
betamax Posted October 12, 2005 Author Posted October 12, 2005 bump.some applications are actually detecting these stail registry keys.
rjz Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 In device manger details tab they will list the drivers files. I would uninstall from the device managerr then delete the files. Have you tried that?
betamax Posted October 13, 2005 Author Posted October 13, 2005 I deleted the files. It still leaves keys in the registry that reference those file.
rjz Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 I would backup the registru and delete the references to these files. See if that works. You could also email the company support and ask for a cleaner.How about a sys restore?
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