Complete uninstall hardware driver from XP and driver cache

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Paul Kester

I want to do a video tutorial on how to install and configure a program that
uses a hardware USB lock for licensing.

I want the video to process as if the computer never had the USB key or
program installed.

All the machines that I have the video program on already have this
application and hardware key installed.

I have uninstalled the program and usb key driver but it maintains the
driver somewhere in a cache because instead of asking me for the driver (part
of the steps I want in the video) it skips and automatically installs the
driver. On a fresh install XP machine it will not find the driver and ask a
few questions that I want to show on my video tutorial.

How do I remove the usb key driver not only from device manager but the
internal driver store as well??

I really don't have the option to wipe my work machine so any advice will be
appreciated.
 
This does not remove the driver from the cache, if I plug in the usb key
after that it does not show the hardware installation screen, it uses the
previous chosen one. This is not the behavior I want. I want the whole
process to behave as it was never done before.
 
Did you look in

C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386

Paul said:
This does not remove the driver from the cache, if I plug in the usb key
after that it does not show the hardware installation screen, it uses the
previous chosen one. This is not the behavior I want. I want the whole
process to behave as it was never done before.


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Paul Kester said:
I want to do a video tutorial on how to install and configure a program that
uses a hardware USB lock for licensing.

I want the video to process as if the computer never had the USB key or
program installed.

All the machines that I have the video program on already have this
application and hardware key installed.

I have uninstalled the program and usb key driver but it maintains the
driver somewhere in a cache because instead of asking me for the driver (part
of the steps I want in the video) it skips and automatically installs the
driver. On a fresh install XP machine it will not find the driver and ask a
few questions that I want to show on my video tutorial.

How do I remove the usb key driver not only from device manager but the
internal driver store as well??

I really don't have the option to wipe my work machine so any advice will be
appreciated.
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