RE: [Xen-users] unistalling gplpv from win7x64 gives BSOD

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> Am 27.05.2010 11:46, schrieb Florian Manschwetus:
> > Am 27.05.2010 11:42, schrieb Fajar A. Nugraha:
> >> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Florian Manschwetus
> >> <florianmanschwetus@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> Am 27.05.2010 11:23, schrieb Fajar A. Nugraha:
> >>>> What I did with 0.11.x:
> >>>> - get
http://www.meadowcourt.org/downloads/gplpv_uninstall_bat.zip
> >>>> - boot with NOGPLPV
> >>>> - use 0.10.x uninstaller
> >>>> - reboot
> >>>>
> >>> Ok, now the system boots without nogplpv, but the net driver
package
> >>> still is uninstallable.
> >>
> >>
> >> Odd. XenNet should depend on Xen PCI. If there's no driver for
XenPCI,
> >> there shouldn't even be a XenNet device. How did you determine that
> >> it's "uninstallable"? Which NIC does WIndows currently use,
> >> realtek/QEMU or XenNet?
> >>
> > The net device in devicemanager is gone of course.
> > But the driverpackage in programs etc is uninstallable (click
uninstall,
> > confirm uninstall anyway, nothing happens)
> > But before installing the newer version I would like to get rid of
all
> > of this.
> >
> > Florian
> 
> Even more evil, is that I have tried to install the newer version,
> resulting in having now two ununinstallable xen net driver packages
> installed. I need some help here, I have no ideas left.
> 

Did you run the uninstall bat file? That's a measure of last resort but
it sounds like you are there. If you've already done that it might make
the driver packages harder to uninstall.

Windows tries to be smart and prevents you removing a driver that it
thinks is critical to the system, eg because you booted off it. It can't
know that if you uninstall GPLPV and reboot then things will still be
okay.

Having the driver packages there, while messy, won't actually hurt
things. You can remove them from the registry directly if you really
want to.

James


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