John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> hath wroth:

>Groan indeed! This kind of software "auto install" has proved to be a
>nightmare for many users. The first thing I do when encountering it is
>to completely erase it, which can be a bitch in some cases.

Well, actually I kinda like it for some things. I have a Sandisk USB
memory thing with the U3 auto install software installed. In the
past, every time I plug one of my dozen or so memory dongles into a
Windoze ME machine, I have to go fishing for the corresponding driver.
However, this device had the driver in the virtual cdrom and installed
it automagically. I was impressed with how neatly it worked. However,
installing a USB wireless driver in the same manner strikes me as a
far more complex and error prone process. Maybe after a few bug fixes
and updates...

>>Otherwise, try:
>> Control Panel -> Add/remove Hardware
>>and display a list of drivers. The Buffalo driver should be in there
>>along with literally every device that was ever plugged into the
>>computer.
>
>But may not be visible, even if you View Hidden drivers -- it could be a
>Phantom driver, which can only be viewed and removed with a special
>procedure. (I'll dig up the KB article if anyone asks.)

The driver is invariably a DLL so I use:
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/LoadOrder.mspx>
to list all the DLL's that get loaded. It's amazing how much junk
that I thought had been uninstalled shows up in the shopping list of
DLL's.

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