Comments on: How to uninstall hidden devices, drivers, and services

By: A Good Guy

A Good Guy — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:31:36 +0000

Thanks a ton! This helped so much! An HP Printer driver was corrupted on install and there wasn’t a log in the Program Files to uninstall. So this worked wonders! Had to uninstall each shown driver manually, but as long as it stops the DEP from flagging the driver we’re good.

By: gsi

gsi — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:32:27 +0000

does anyone ever experience with Windows Multipoint Server? I’m having trouble installing my barcode reader. But if I run on safe mode the device works fine. Something to do with USB device mapping or something.

By: Hector

Hector — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:09:45 +0000

When I type in devmgmt.msc it says not recognized as an internal or external command.

By: moey

moey — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 02:11:51 +0000

hello ive been having an issue i want to remove my nokia e71 driver from the PC running win 7 x86 (32bit) but i dont know what the driver is called

ive done the show unused drivers command and all that aswell but i dunno where the Nokia e71 driver is located in Device manager

i would really appreicate help
thanks in advance

moey

By: Vegard

Vegard — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:12:00 +0000

i got a problem here i dont know what too remove and anyone add me on skype : Vegaboa and help me please , cuz i got weird disorted laggs and i belive its a hidden device in my computer that makes the lagg
so please help

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:06:00 +0000

If you right-click My Computer or Computer, select Properties, Advanced, or Advanced System Settings, click on environment variables, system variables play in the bottom under the “New” button, input variables and the value 1 DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES. This way you will always have hidden value.

By: Sawbona

Sawbona — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:14:00 +0000

Hello:

Thanks a lot …
Please ‘do’ keep this article around, it has been very usefull to me.

In my third W200Pro SP4 transplant to yet another mobo/chipset/cpu things started getting a bit complicated.

When I seached for a solution and finally came across this post, I undertsood why.

Can’t begin to tell you just how much old/not present hardware was piled up within ‘hidden devices’, with multiple instances of storage volumes, USB controllers, SCSI drives, CD and DVD Rom units, monitors, IDE and SCSI controllers, etc.

Now, it’s all squeaky clean … =-)

Once again, thanks a lot for sharing the knowledge.
Best regards,

CIV
Buenos Aires
Argentina

By: Jaggu Da

Jaggu Da — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:55:00 +0000

good

By: Bubak

Bubak — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:30:00 +0000

Helps me not… I uninstall driver shown but when I connect device it is detected and driver is installed again. I want to delete newer driver and install older. It is not possible because Windows says “no better driver found for device” or something similar (I’m using WXP in czech).

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:23:00 +0000

Dont forget to run as Admin