This e-mail seeks detailed instructions on how to uninstall a device driver. I am reasonably competent with PCs, having been using them intensively for over ten years now, but cannot remove a specific driver from my system whatever I do. I need to do this in order to install a driver that should do the same job, but which is quite different (ie I can't do a simple replacement or update)
The driver: is for a Yamaha external synthesizer module that runs from the serial port of my PC. The driver was produced by Yamaha music specifically for that model (MU-10 synthesizer), and is freely available on their WWW site. It serves to pipe the output of my software MIDI sequencer through the COM2 port to the Yamaha MU-10 module using a To Host lead. It is installed via the 'Add New Hardware' setup procedure on my PC
Components: the driver seems to have two active component files, entitled: 1. Yamser.386 2. Yamser.drv
OpSys: Win 95
'Add/Remove Programs' dialogue box: I have tried removing the driver via this Win 95 function, but the driver does not appear there (and never has, as far as I remember)
I conclude: that there is no way of automatically uninstalling the software, and need some form of manual uninstall
Locked into the system: it seems that my PC installs the Yamser driver when it boots up. If I subsequently go to manually delete the Yamser files through Explorer, Win95 informs me (not unreasonably) that I can't delete them because they are being used by Win 95
Uninstall file?: there seems to be no uninstall file or procedure on the supplied Yam MU-10 install disk, and nothing about uninstallation in the README files, so no luck there
Present stage: I really am at a loss as to what to do now, and really need to get that new driver installed
Any suggestions gratefully received
The driver: is for a Yamaha external synthesizer module that runs from the serial port of my PC. The driver was produced by Yamaha music specifically for that model (MU-10 synthesizer), and is freely available on their WWW site. It serves to pipe the output of my software MIDI sequencer through the COM2 port to the Yamaha MU-10 module using a To Host lead. It is installed via the 'Add New Hardware' setup procedure on my PC
Components: the driver seems to have two active component files, entitled: 1. Yamser.386 2. Yamser.drv
OpSys: Win 95
'Add/Remove Programs' dialogue box: I have tried removing the driver via this Win 95 function, but the driver does not appear there (and never has, as far as I remember)
I conclude: that there is no way of automatically uninstalling the software, and need some form of manual uninstall
Locked into the system: it seems that my PC installs the Yamser driver when it boots up. If I subsequently go to manually delete the Yamser files through Explorer, Win95 informs me (not unreasonably) that I can't delete them because they are being used by Win 95
Uninstall file?: there seems to be no uninstall file or procedure on the supplied Yam MU-10 install disk, and nothing about uninstallation in the README files, so no luck there
Present stage: I really am at a loss as to what to do now, and really need to get that new driver installed
Any suggestions gratefully received