how do you remove a driver from windows???

i upgraded from 98se to xp, had an old version of direct cd for my
cdrw drive. i don't use direct cd anymore but the driver still loads
at startup, it says 'windows did not start this device driver because
it can cause your computer to become unstable.' i went into 'device
manager', opened properties for the cdrw and under 'driver file
details' the driver is listed. but there's no way to remove it. any
ideas?

d.

 

DirectCD is not the main driver that controls the CD drive. It's a program
that enables packet writing. The CD drive itself uses a totally different
driver, which is the one you see in the device manager. DirectCD is simply a
program that runs at windows startup. You need to uninstall DirectCD, either
by using the add/remove programs in the control panel, or use MSConfig to
prevent it from loading at startup.

 

You could try to find what is causing it to load by running msconfig and
uncheck it.

 

The quick and dirty, but completely effective method would be to start in safe
mode and delete the file. That will generate a "failed to load" entry in the
boot log, but won't slow anything down.

This is not the "proper and neat" method, but it will solve your issue.

BB

 

tried that but it wasnt listed anywhere, so i went to the roxio site,
apparently *everyone* who had that program and then upgraded to xp had
the same problem so they posted a 'zap' file i could download, and
that fixed it.

 

that zap file MDesigns mentioned can found at http://tools.roxio.com/support/tools/roxizap.exe