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How can I get rid of an old driver entry which is causing my Windows
Explorer to run slowly?
This is the background ... some time ago I put a (Hauppage) PCI
Television card into my PC but I later took it out.
More recently I noticed that Windows Explorer was running slow and
when I used Regmon (by System Internals) I saw Explorer was
repeatedly calling to a device number (8CAF7FD9-A83D-4D52-89F1-
D7F1D7E81CD) which turned out to refer to the old TV card.
By using Show Hidden Devices in Device Manager I saw the driver is
called "Microsoft TV/Video Connection". But my XP Pro (SP1) won't
let me uninstall it. Even in Safe Mode it prevents me and says:
"Failed to uninstall the device. The device may be
required to boot up the computer."
Device Manager points to C:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\NdisIP.sys
version 5.03.0000.0900. As soon as I delete this file, XP
immediately creates a new one.
How can I uninstall the driver entry from XP?
Explorer to run slowly?
This is the background ... some time ago I put a (Hauppage) PCI
Television card into my PC but I later took it out.
More recently I noticed that Windows Explorer was running slow and
when I used Regmon (by System Internals) I saw Explorer was
repeatedly calling to a device number (8CAF7FD9-A83D-4D52-89F1-
D7F1D7E81CD) which turned out to refer to the old TV card.
By using Show Hidden Devices in Device Manager I saw the driver is
called "Microsoft TV/Video Connection". But my XP Pro (SP1) won't
let me uninstall it. Even in Safe Mode it prevents me and says:
"Failed to uninstall the device. The device may be
required to boot up the computer."
Device Manager points to C:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\NdisIP.sys
version 5.03.0000.0900. As soon as I delete this file, XP
immediately creates a new one.
How can I uninstall the driver entry from XP?