Uninstalled Driver keeps reinstalling on startup

[Leeno]

How do you prevent the pop up balloon in windows XP from
reinstalling the same driver that you just uninstalled.
I want to put in a newer driver but the computer needs to
be restarted to complete the uninstall of the old
driver. Then on restart the baloon pops up and installs
the old driver. What do I uncheck or check to prevent
this baloon from finding new hardware? I want to install
my new driver manually but I first have to uninstall the
old driver which keeps reinstalling automatically. In
other words I want to disable this ballon on startup.

 

[tallyman]

*How do you prevent the pop up balloon in windows XP from
reinstalling the same driver that you just uninstalled.
I want to put in a newer driver but the computer needs to
be restarted to complete the uninstall of the old
driver. Then on restart the baloon pops up and installs
the old driver. What do I uncheck or check to prevent
this baloon from finding new hardware? I want to install
my new driver manually but I first have to uninstall the
old driver which keeps reinstalling automatically. In
other words I want to disable this ballon on startup. *

Do you definitely need to uninstall the old driver before installin
the new one? - you can usually let Windows update to the more recen
one automatically. Also, if the hardware is detected upon startup yo
cannot normally remove the driver as its being used. Only way is t
identify the driver - usually a .sys file - by right clicking on th
hardware item in device manager and choosing driver/driver details
remember the location - usually it's c:\windows\system32\drivers, the
re-start in Safe Mode (so no drivers are loaded) and delete, or re-nam
the driver. Restart as normal and you should get the usual prompt fo
driver disk/location.

regards

Joh


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tallyma