Daemon Tools Manual full uninstall Solution

Daemon Tools Manual full uninstall Solution

This article is said to be translated from official daemon materials, so it is an English-Chinese comparison. I made a small supplement based on my actual operations.
The method is as follows:

1. Open Device Manager (SCSI/raid controllers Section) and delete SCSI controller with name corresponding with name of daemon driver
(Miniport driver name). If you have problems doing it (eg. system crashes) then start from step 3 (skip steps 1 and 2 ).
Step 1. Open the Device Manager ("SCSI and RAID Controller") and delete the SCSI controller device with the corresponding daemon driver name (miniport driver name. If a problem occurs, this step cannot be performed (such as a system crash), start from step 3 (skip steps 1 and 2 ).

2. open Device Manager (system devices Section) and delete device with driver corresponding with Daemon Driver (bus driver name ). in current versions of daemon tools it is 'pnp BIOS extension' but most likely it may change in next versions. again, if you have some problems doing it, skip this step
Step 2. Open the Device Manager (system device) and delete the device with the corresponding daemon driver name (bus driver name. In the current version of daemon tools, the device name is "'pnp BIOS extension", but the device name may be changed in the next version. Again, if there is a problem with this step, skip this step.

3. Find daemon driver files in windows \ system32 \ drivers folder
(IN Win95/98/me also check WINDOWS \ SYSTEM \ iosubsys folder ).
Make sure your system is configured to display system files (controlpanel-> Tools-> folderoptions-> View) in order you can see them. Delete daemon driver files.
Default v3.46 driver file names are d1_bus. sys and d1_prt. sys
Default v3.47 driver file names are d1_bus. sys and d1_prt. sys
Step 3. Search for the daemon driver file in the windows \ system32 \ drivers folder (find the windows \ SYSTEM \ iosubsys folder in Win95/98/ME ).
To view these files, make sure that your system is configured with "display system files" (Control Panel-tools-Folder Options-view ). Delete the daemon driver file.
The default 3.46 driver file names are dsf-bus. sys and dsf-prt. sys.
The default 3.47 driver file names are dsf-bus. sys and dsf-prt. sys.

4. In winnt/2000/XP/2003 Open Registry Editor and Check HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services for entries with same names as Daemon driver files. Delete these keys.
Step 4. For WinNT/2000/XP/2003 systems, open the Registry Editor (start -- run -- Regedit) and check the entries with the same name as the daemon driver file in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services. Delete these items.

5. find d1_bus and d1_prt in registry and delete (347 is your daemon's version ). reboot your system. if you executed steps 1 and 2 then you don't need to do anything anymore. otherwise proceed to next step.
Step 5. Search for the d347bus and d347prt entries in the Registry and delete them (347 is the daemon version number you installed ). Restart your system. If steps 1 and 2 are executed, you do not need to do anything. Otherwise, proceed to the next step.

6. Go to Device Manager-you may see some device with yellow mark.
This is most likely daemon device which cannot start because it's drivers are deleted. Delete this device from Device Manager.
Step 6. Open the Device Manager. You may see some devices with a yellow exclamation mark.
This is probably because the daemon devices that cannot be started are deleted. Delete these devices from the Device Manager.

The same procedure may be used also for complete removal of alcohol drivers from system.
Similar steps may be used to completely remove the alcohol device from the system.

Finally, you must restart after clearing it. Do not log out of the user. Otherwise, the installation may fail.