CANNOT remove "Network Monitor Driver"

[marcolopes]

CANNOT remove "Network Monitor Driver"

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This is really annoying! Windows has so many things that seem hard to control, but I go really

mad when I cannot remove a single program / service.

Since windows installed the "Network Monitor Driver", I cannot remove it.

When I try to remove it, the Network properties window simply HANGS.

I must kill the process, as it stays in the HANG state for minutes, without any change.

After that, NETWORK MONITOR DRIVER still remains on the network properties.

RECENTLY I had an "improvement" on this problem!

I installed the new "NETWORK MONITOR 3" from Microsoft.

After I REMOVED this one (network monitor 3), I get the error:

"Cannot uninstall the Network Monitor Driver component. Network monitor driver is still

required by the following components and cannot be uninstalled until those components are

uninstalled: NETWORK MONITOR3"

SO, now I have 2 annoyances!!!!!!!!!!!

I only have 3 registry keys that relate to "network monitor 3", and removing those will CHANGE

the above error message to the SAME message without the "NETWORK MONITOR3" name on it, so it

seems the registry is just a name reference.

Any help on this one?

Thanks.

P.S.: "netcap /remove" gives me "No instances of the Network Monitor driver installed by Netcap.exe were found."

Edited March 31, 2007 by marcolopes

[thakurlokesh]

First, install network monitor driver again. then go to control panel>network connections and then right click on network connection and click properties then disable network monitor driver by unchecking the check box then uninstall it.

[khookie]

Thanks for the tip Thakurlokesh - I went into console and ran nmconfig /uninstall

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Network Monitor 3.0>nmconfig /uninstall

That did the trick, and then I uninstalled it.

Chris