Cannot remove Legacy Device Drivers for non-existing devices.

[Guest]

Under my Sound card devices, there are additional devices, which are not installed in the system. I have a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 installed with onboard Audio disabled, but I show a Legacy Audio card and a video capture driver along with the SB. I'm unable to disable or unstalled the devices since the option does not show up for them, unlike all the other devices i have installed such as my NIC or graphics card. I've verified that all motherboard onboard devices were disabled in the BIOS, and I know there are no additional sound cards installed. How do I remove these Legacy devices that do not give me the option to disable or uninstall them?

 

[R. McCarty]

Those components are a normal part of the Windows.
You don't need to remove anything from the Sounds
category. If you uninstall them, on the next reboot XP
will re-install them.

Under my Sound card devices, there are additional devices, which are not

installed in the system. I have a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 installed with
onboard Audio disabled, but I show a Legacy Audio card and a video capture
driver along with the SB. I'm unable to disable or unstalled the devices
since the option does not show up for them, unlike all the other devices i
have installed such as my NIC or graphics card. I've verified that all
motherboard onboard devices were disabled in the BIOS, and I know there are
no additional sound cards installed. How do I remove these Legacy devices
that do not give me the option to disable or uninstall them?

 

[Guest]

I'm trying to improve my boot up time from 40+ secs by
updating device drivers and disabling devices that I do
not use. I don't have many apps loaded yet, and the
bootvis tool shows that device driver initiation is the
primary cause for slow bootup, which is why I wanted to
disable those legacy components.
THX 4 the reply.