Fool's design wrote:Drugwash wrote:...[url="http://www.fileden.com/files/2012/10/20/3358834/apps/HDDB/HDDB0007.7z"]this utility[/url]...
(What the heck is wrong with the URL command????)[/i]
You need to lose the quote characters, only [url=<url here directly without quotes>]...
The only thing I hadn't tried at the time...
Wasn't there a standard for those things? When I look just above while typing this, the quote sequence uses double quotes for all tags - why the double standards, it's confusing?! Maybe I'm getting too old for this.
Anyway, could you please do it for me, seeing that one can't edit their previous posts? Thank you.
I'll try again here though, just to make sure. Download [url=http://www.fileden.com/files/2012/10/20/3358834/apps/HDDB/HDDB0007.7z]
HDDB 0.0.0.7[/url] ... and here's a sample of a fool's design: it doesn't work, even without quotes.
PROBLEMCHYLD wrote:The .SYS files needs to be deleted also. One will either have to use Microsoft drivers or their manufacturer drivers. You can't use both. I would guess this is why Tihiy and maximus-decim says remove all drivers/controllers etc....
I'll have to test and see if the actual driver files are being deleted when devices are removed from Device Manager. Maybe only the inf files should be removed (or, better, backed up somewhere along with the pertaining driver files - sys, vxd, etc), since the driver files (sys or whatever) wouldn't be loaded unless they're being referenced to in inf/registry. And overwriting them shouldn't be a problem either.
It would be very easy for me to delete all the subkeys under USB and USBSTOR, but there may be other USB devices installed that have no truck with the hubs. One problem though would be combo devices such as printer + scanner (as my Lexmark X1130/X1150) which spawns its own hub; if I were to delete all the hub subkeys, the printer may malfunction when the hub is redetected and given a different subkey name.
Therefore removing USB subkeys programmatically may not be an easy task, if we wanna do it by the book. I'll have to poke around deeper.