Removing old drivers.

[joe]

I had a wireless network connected for a short time that
did not work well. I uninstalled it and now am having
difficulties with my computer.

It seems that the network drivers still remain and cannot
be uninstalled. When I try, an error message says they
cannot be removed because they are needed in the boot
process. I have searched the registry, gone through the
device manager for every possible link and cannot find
how to get rid of these files. It is causing my computer
to take an extra long time (10 - 20 minutes) to start
because it is looking to connect to a network that no
longer exists.

Any input will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Joe

 

[Arclight]

If you had a network card, go into control panel/device manager/click on
your network card. You should see a "driver tab". Clik it open and there
should be a delete driver tab in there.

 

[Joe]

There was no network card as such. The network used the
powerlines, so that any system in the house could use the
network. Each unit had a hub connected via USB.
Thx.

 

[T.C.]

If you still have the Network Adapter listed in Device Manager, and no
longer network, right click it, and left click: Disable. It will cut down
on your boot up time, because Windows XP won't look for networks.

 

[joe]

That has already been done. After further investigating,
I found that it is holding on to the packet schedulers
for these drivers. I tried to delete them from the
registry, but the registry will not allow them to be
deleted, saying that they are predefined values.

That is confusing to me, because these are MS keys, but
outside software values.

-----Original Message-----
If you still have the Network Adapter listed in Device Manager, and no
longer network, right click it, and left click: Disable. It will cut down
on your boot up time, because Windows XP won't look for networks.
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If you had a network card, go into control panel/device manager/click on
your network card. You should see a "driver tab". Clik it open and there
should be a delete driver tab in there.

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