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cventu
cventu

Reputation: 275

Cant remove oem.inf

I am trying to remove a USB controller, but I am facing the following problem:

I opened a windows console as administrator and run pnputil -e to get the complete list of controllers installed

The controller I want to uninstall showed up as oem38.inf

I executed: pnputil -f -d oem38.inf to remove it, but got an error saying that it cant be uninstalled because the specified filename is not an installed OEM INF.

Any idea on how can I fix this?

My O.S is: Windows 7 Ultimate - Service Pack 1

Thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 24334

Answers (2)

momoko
momoko

Reputation: 1

I'm in the same situation. And I think I might know why the "not an installed oem inf" shows. I think in the oemXX.inf part, output by pnputil /e, the XX must be a continuous number. And I installed same driver twice by accident. In my case, oem31.inf and oem32.inf are same driver.(one is certificated, one is not.) They have same DriverVer. When I try to delete oem32.inf, oem31.inf is deleted. (Because they have same DriverVer? the first one can be deleted?) Then when I try to delete oem32.inf again, the message shows.

Upvotes: 0

David Grayson
David Grayson

Reputation: 87376

The command pnputil -f -d oem46.inf worked for me on Windows 10 when I ran it as Administrator, resulting in this output:

Microsoft PnP Utility

Driver package deleted successfully.

You should run pnputil -enum-drivers and make sure oem38.inf shows up in the list. If it is not listed, maybe you already deleted it. If you continue to have trouble, please update your question with the output from pnputil -enum-drivers and the full output from pnputil -f -d oem38.inf.

Upvotes: 5

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