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Removing the Plug and Play Driver
November 2009 405
Removing the Plug and Play Driver
Installing a Brooktrout device using the Plug and Play Manager
(
Found New Hardware Wizard) creates some backup files and registry
entries. The Windows® Plug and Play Manager uses this
information to automatically install the device on rebooting.
To completely remove the Plug and Play driver from the system, you
must perform a complete cleanup after you remove the device from
the Device Manager.
Make sure you stop all your applications and the Boston Host Service
before uninstalling the device driver.
Note: The following instructions include steps to take when
removing the Plug and Play driver for versions earlier than 5.2
and for removing the Plug and Play driver for the 5.2 version.
For Earlier Versions (Prior to 5.2)
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To remove an earlier version of the Plug and Play driver:
1. Open Windows Device Manager.
2. Expand the Brooktrout Hardware node.
3. Right-click the board node and select Uninstall.
4. Uninstall all the Brooktrout boards listed under the Brooktrout
Hardware
node.
5. Open Command Prompt and type “net stop boston” to stop the
Boston driver that might still be running.
6. Delete the following files:
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\boston.sys
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\brktBdevpp.dll
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\brktBdevco.dll
7. Examine the registry value InfPath located under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\
Control\Class\{50CE2010-E61B-40EF-9EAA-
2BCDE74F8C6C}\0000.