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Can't uninstall driver...
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Old Jun 25, 2008, 04:51 PM Local time: Jun 25, 2008, 02:51 PM #1 (permalink) of 5
Can't uninstall driver...

Okay... I bought a wireless internet card for my computer like last year. Worked fine until somebody dropped my antenna while I was moving things with my family from one house to another. Ran over the antenna, broke it, etc. Bought a new card! New antenna and everything.

Now I uninstall the old card. Cool. Restart computer. Put CD in. Install files. Cool. Turn off computer, put new card in. Computer starts up and says "Nah you already have one of those in here. Sorry." Not cool.

I uninstall the piece of shit and repeat the process. When I come back, My computer is calling it card #3. Which is impossible because I uninstalled the last 2. My computer shouldn't even know they existed. What really boggles me is that I tried a different PCI slot in my motherboard each time!

How do you solve this kind of problem? How can I convince my computer that the shit's uninstalled?
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Old Jun 28, 2008, 10:20 AM Local time: Jun 28, 2008, 11:20 PM #2 (permalink) of 5
You positive it can't be removed via device manager?

Run > devmgmt.msc
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Old Jun 29, 2008, 07:04 PM Local time: Jun 29, 2008, 05:04 PM #3 (permalink) of 5
Oh, sure, I can remove it from there. I have already done that, in fact. Yet my computer still retains the memory of it.
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Old Jun 29, 2008, 10:34 PM Local time: Jun 30, 2008, 11:34 AM #4 (permalink) of 5
Post screenshots of

1. Startup tab in System Configuration Utility (Run -> msconfig)
2. Running Services (Run -> services.msc)
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Old Jul 3, 2008, 09:36 PM Local time: Jul 3, 2008, 07:36 PM #5 (permalink) of 5
Drivers for the most part are not uninstalled from Windows, ever. Exceptions are most graphics card drivers. When you install most drivers, Windows makes a copy of it in the system driver cache and when you uninstall the device all you are really doing is removing the device and freeing the hardware resources it was using. The drivers will remain on your system to be used by Windows plug-and-play if the device is added to the system again.

You can manually remove the driver files, if you know what files are being used by the device and know your way around the Windows system files.
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