Uninstall a device

[Mac]

Hi folks,

As you all know, in DeviceManager you select a Device using right Mouseclick
and select Uninstall to remove this Device (no matter wich kind of device)..
My question is: Can someone give me a WORKING example on how to uninstall a
existing device from a Windows XP,2K or 2K3 Platform.

VB and VB.NET Sources welcome ;-)

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Regards,

Mac

[Chris]

Hi Mac,

I think you should be looking at the SetupDiRemoveDevice function that lives
in setupapi.dll.

Here is the newsgroup post, with code in C++, that led me there:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...23a91958887ed7

The Declaration should look something like this:

Private Declare Function SetupDiRemoveDevice Lib "setupapi.dll" ( _
ByRef DeviceInfoSet As Int32, _
ByRef DeviceInfoData As PSP_DEVINFO_DATA) As Int32

As far as the PSP_DEVINFO_DATA goes I'm not really sure

MSDN link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...0e3d25.xml.asp

I hope this is helpful as I'm just taking a guess here.

Chris

"Mac" <ma*@doc2lan.dewrote in message
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Hi folks,

As you all know, in DeviceManager you select a Device using right
Mouseclick
and select Uninstall to remove this Device (no matter wich kind of
device)..
My question is: Can someone give me a WORKING example on how to uninstall
a
existing device from a Windows XP,2K or 2K3 Platform.

VB and VB.NET Sources welcome ;-)

--
Regards,

Mac

[Mac]

Hi Chris,

thanks for your submission, have you tried this link:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272/EN-US/?

Regards,

Mac
"Chris" <co***********@nospam.yahoo.comwrote in message
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Hi Mac,

I think you should be looking at the SetupDiRemoveDevice function that
lives in setupapi.dll.

Here is the newsgroup post, with code in C++, that led me there:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...23a91958887ed7

The Declaration should look something like this:

Private Declare Function SetupDiRemoveDevice Lib "setupapi.dll" ( _
ByRef DeviceInfoSet As Int32, _
ByRef DeviceInfoData As PSP_DEVINFO_DATA) As Int32

As far as the PSP_DEVINFO_DATA goes I'm not really sure

MSDN link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...0e3d25.xml.asp

I hope this is helpful as I'm just taking a guess here.

Chris

"Mac" <ma*@doc2lan.dewrote in message
news:ey**************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>Hi folks,

As you all know, in DeviceManager you select a Device using right
Mouseclick
and select Uninstall to remove this Device (no matter wich kind of
device)..
My question is: Can someone give me a WORKING example on how to uninstall
a
existing device from a Windows XP,2K or 2K3 Platform.

VB and VB.NET Sources welcome ;-)

--
Regards,

Mac