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Re: How to uninstall hidden devices, drivers, and services | Windows installation | Tech-Recipes

TechMasterJoe — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:35:26 -0000

save the following in a notepad - quotes
"echo
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
devmgmt.msc
pause >nul
"
save as hidden.bat
.bat not .text
then dbl click on the bat file to run cmd and open devmgmt.msc
all on auto

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Martha — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:11:31 -0000

Have Windows XP - have lost sound - get msg that there is no audio
device installed (multimedia audio controller) and that it is being used
by another source. Anyone have any solutions?

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donovan — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:01:23 -0000

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Re: How to uninstall hidden devices, drivers, and services | Windows installation | Tech-Recipes

grace — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:39:40 -0000

thanks for this little recipe. but what i need is what should i do in order to show my hidden drive. e.g. "drive d". please help me. tanxc

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MARS666 — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:04:26 -0000

very goooooooooooooooooooooood
this helped me to uninstal lots of old drivers on XP
thx man

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Xiotion — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:55:55 -0000

THX FOR THIS!!!!! REALLY HELPFULL

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Jan — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:15:12 -0000

Steve, your suggestion will show hidden devices, but not the non-present devices. And the reason you get the message "failed to uninstall the device. The device may be needed to boot up the computer" may be due to dependency on a non-present device. For me, setting the environment variable before starting the device manager enabled me to uninstall the non-present device first, and then I was also able to uninstall the hidden devices that before refused to uninstall (at least most of them ...)

Re: How to uninstall hidden devices, drivers, and services | Windows installation | Tech-Recipes

Steve — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:12:58 -0000

These instructions are an unnecessarily complicated way to do something very simple. Just go to the device manager, click View, and select "show hidden devices". What you have not done is explain what to do when clicking "uninstall" results in a message "failed to uninstall the device. the device may be needed to boot up the computer."

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Anonymous — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:06:14 -0000

:evil: :evil: any other recipes to uninstall netgear drivers, the whole program,I've just been going around in circles and nothing seems to work!
THANKS!!!
joann

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Anonymous — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:52:10 -0000

<ul id="quote"><h6>larnc wrote:</h6>Great advice but why would you have people go through the trouble of getting to the Deviec Manager through the DOS prompt when they can get to it through the Control Panel?</ul> :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: the recipe didn't work for me, went through all the emotions but netgear is still installed in my computer!!! Any other suggestions out there??? thanks, joann

Re: How to uninstall hidden devices, drivers, and services | Windows installation | Tech-Recipes

ItaloVantore — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:25:13 -0000

A) from Start/Run Menu
1) Open the Start menu and choose Run...
2) Type in:

cmd /c set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1&devmgmt.msc

3) press Enter.
4) In the Device Manager Console, from the View menu,
select Show Hidden Devices.
(the command remain stored in the history and you can recall it when you need)

B) From batch file

1) Create a new text file
2) Type in:

cmd /c set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1&devmgmt.msc

3) press Enter.
4) Save as MYDEVMGR.BAT
5) every time you need
5a) double click on batck file
5b) In the Device Manager Console, from the View menu,
select Show Hidden Devices.

Re: How to uninstall hidden devices, drivers, and services | Windows installation | Tech-Recipes

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:17:41 -0000

How to uninstall Unused Drivers and Devices

Follow the steps below to display the hidden device information:

1. Right-click "My Computer" icon on the desktop and select Properties
2. In the System Properties windows click on the Advanced tab
3. Click on Environment Variables button in the right middle of the window
4. In the Environment Variables window, bottom pane (called System Variables), click on New
5. For Variable Name, enter devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices
6. For Variable Value, enter 1
7. Click OK to close New System Variables, OK to close the Environment Variables window and OK again to close System Properties

Form now on, when you open Device Manager, you click on View and then select Show hidden devices from the menu, you can identify the hidden devices by their grayed-out icons.

Remember to delete the Variable devmgr_show_nonpresent_device when finish.

1. Right-click My Computer and select Properties
2. Click on the Advanced tab
3. Click on Environment Variables
4. In the Below window pane (System Variables), select the variable name devmgr_show_nonpresent_device and click on Delete
5. Click OK to close the Environment Variables window and OK again to close System Properties.

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Anonymous — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:41:51 -0000

<ul id="quote"><h6>AHappyGuest wrote:</h6>Thanks for this a simple solution that stopped the past 4 hours of going round in circles</ul>

Re: How to uninstall hidden devices, drivers, and services | Windows installation | Tech-Recipes

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 14:30:43 -0000

Great advice but why would you have people go through the trouble of getting to the Deviec Manager through the DOS prompt when they can get to it through the Control Panel?

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Anonymous — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:41:52 -0000

good advice, my question is the hidden network drivers on my pc that give me conflicts wont uninstall. Says unable to uninstall might be needed for boot, and advice?

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www.blueonion.net — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:35:24 -0000

This is just exactly what the doctor ordered!!

Thanks!

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AHappyGuest — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 02:44:37 -0000

Thanks for this a simple solution that stopped the past 4 hours of going round in circles

Re: How to uninstall hidden devices, drivers, and services | Windows installation | Tech-Recipes

AlexTheBeast — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 00:43:51 -0000

<ul id="quote"><h6>VinDSL, Lenon.com wrote:</h6>This article rocks!!! Thanks!

I've been looking for a good way to 'clean house' on W2K. My install was a couple of years old and getting flakey. My 'system resources' was jammed with tons of useless 'hiden' devices.

This article gets 10/5 stars... :D</ul>

I agree... this is a sweet little recipe.

btw, sweet php-nuke site you have there!

AlexTheBeast

Re: How to uninstall hidden devices, drivers, and services | Windows installation | Tech-Recipes

VinDSL, Lenon.com — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:31:49 -0000

This article rocks!!! Thanks!

I've been looking for a good way to 'clean house' on W2K. My install was a couple of years old and getting flakey. My 'system resources' was jammed with tons of useless 'hiden' devices.

This article gets 10/5 stars... :D