Failed to uninstall the driver

Issue:

When you want to remove/uninstall a driver, for example, “BitDefender Firewall NDIS Filter Miniport", you get an error message “Failed to uninstall the device. The device may be required to boot up the computer". In mandarin, “無法解除安裝裝置。裝置可能是開機必需的裝置。" .

Solution:

1, run “devmgmt.msc" and browse to the device you want to remove/uninstall.

2, right click and pick “properties", go to “details" tab.

3, read the value assigned to “Device Instance Id", in my case for example, “ROOT\SW_BDFNDISFMP007″.

4, run “regiedit" and browse to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum

5, HERE, according to the value in step 4, further browse to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\SW_BDFNDISFMP007

6, right click the folder 0007, click “Permissions", and tick to allow Full Control for everyone. Click Apply and OK.

7, Now, you have the right to remove the folder. Right click the folder 0007 and click “delete".

8, Go back to Device Manager and you can see the driver had been removed.

That’s it and Good luck.

Reference: http://fastest963windows.blogspot.com/2008/01/windows-driver-uninstall-failed-to.html, Access Date : 11 April 2008