How do I remove the drivers from a Frontier Designs Tranzport on a windows machine?
Removing Drivers in Windows 2000/XP
1. Open the Windows Task Manager by simultaneously pressing Ctrl, Alt, and Delete.
2. Select the “Processes” tab, and select “TranzPortApplet.exe” in the list.
3. Click “End Process” and then “Yes”.
4. Close the “Windows Task Manager” window.
5. Navigate to your WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder, and delete the “TranzPortApplet.exe” file.
6. Navigate to your WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS folder, and delete the “TranzPort.sys” and “TranzPortWdm.sys” files.
7. In the WINDOWS\INF folder, search for all files containing the string “tranzport” In Windows Explorer, you can navigate to the WINDOWS\INF folder, click the Search button, and enter text in the dialog boxes as shown in this picture. You should find the
“tranzport” string within a file of the form “oem#.inf” where “#” is a number. Delete that file and also delete any “oem#.PNF” files that have the same “#” number.
8. Open the Start menu (in the bottom left of the desktop), and click “Run…” to open the “Run” dialog box.
9. In the “Open” field of the “Run” dialog box, type “regedit”and then click “OK” to start the Registry Editor.
10. Navigate to this entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\FDG_WDM\*FDG0009
11. Click on the *FDG0009 folder to select it.
12. Go to the Edit menu, and select Permissions.
13. In the “Permissions for Everyone” area, click to place a check mark in “Allow” for “Full Control”
and then click “OK.”
14. Make sure the *FDG0009 folder is still selected.
15. Go to the Edit menu again, and select Delete.
16. Repeat steps 9 through 14 to delete this entry also:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB\Vid_165b&Pid_8101
17. Restart the computer. The Windows driver has now been completely removed.
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