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[nrwe]

Can we add the pnputil commands to the uninstall process?

[nrwe]

How about adding it into the uninstaller then?

[nrwe]

It would be better if we can put these processes into uninstaller and have them automatically executed while uninstalling.

[nrwe]

Yes, it was removed (with the “pnputil /delete-driver oem57.inf -force” command).

[nrwe]

No, it’s not present in the network connection properties.

[nrwe]

The drivers in the Device Manager are gone, but there is this ndiswgc.sys file remains in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\ as well as in the registry.

[nrwe]

I just runned the above commands, here’s the results:

netcfg -v -u nt_ndiswgc

Trying to uninstall nt_ndiswgc …

… nt_ndiswgc is not installed.

… done.

 

devcon.exe remove wiresock
‘devcon.exe’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

 

After installing Windows Driver Kit:

devcon.exe remove wiresock
No devices were removed.

 

pnputil /delete-driver oem57.inf -force
Microsoft PnP Utility

Driver package deleted successfully.

 

pnputil /delete-driver oem35.inf -force
Microsoft PnP Utility

Driver package deleted successfully.

[nrwe]

I just tried uninstall, reboot, and reinstall WireSock, the problem still exists: uninstaller woundn’t remove the drivers.

To reproduce this: uninstall the WireSock VPN Client through Control Panel and reboot, after rebooting, open Device Manager, click on the “View” tab, and select “Device by driver”, and you can see there are 2 remaining drivers “wiresock.inf” and “ndiswgc_lwf.inf”, in my case it’s oem57.inf(wiresock.inf) and oem35.inf(ndiswgc_lwf.inf).

Although this time reinstalling didn’t throw an error. (maybe it’s because that I was reinstalling the same version I guess?)

[nrwe]

Yes, I did rebooted before checking, and it still has drivers (WireSock tun and Packet Filter driver) and registry keys remains, at least on my PC (Windows 11 22H2).

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