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there is really no need to do this IMHO

Thats true that there is no need, but I agree that those markings of older installations are really annoying. They tend to pile up with old Windows installations.
Maybe messing with the registry would help. I haven't tried that.

Me too <:-]

That post you referenced is from 2013. I can't delete those entries on Windows 10 Pro , I get a message window stating that the uninstallers are not available when I go to Programs & Features and try to uninstall from there. Is there somewhere else I'm supposed to delete them from?

Thanks.

I just used CCleaner->tools->uninstall to remove those entries, as windows can't find them anymore to uninstall via its own app.

I came to this forum for this (thread's) reason. Same error message as the original poster.

Just happened to see a bunch of older Windows Driver Packages for RME Fireface USB (my Babyface Pro) - still residing in Control Panel/Programs/Programs and Features.

All of the extras except for one would uninstall. No way to get it to complete uninstallation that I could find, and I also do not trust 3rd party "cleaners".

Although there seems to be no side effects of this, it is very irritating to have to leave old crap laying around in plain sight.

Is there any manual way to clear this? I have already uninstalled and reinstalled the whole package, that one entry (05/04/2018 1.1.14.0) remains...

Overwriting and disposing of the old driver by design would be great (as I and others thought actually happened), as there are pretty much no catastrophic effects with a USB audio device.

A few comments.

We have a public holiday today in germany and some ppl surely took 1d off on the bridge day

You do not need to remove drivers, simply install the latest.

You can only see a RME WDM driver in Windows Sound if you created WDM devices ...
You changed the driver from firewire to usb ?
Its a different driver so you need to create WDM devices again I would guess.

Its nice that you could validate with Laptop that the UFX is still running.
It seems to me that all you need is to perform a valid Win10 installation.

What type of installation did you choose ?
- upgrade installation from 7 to 10 ?
- new / clean installation with 10 ?

You didn't tell which drivers you have installed now, you wouldnt be the 1st who picket the wrong ones.
So could you kindly detail which drivers you installed (name of the file which contains the version number).

When using USB now .. did you try all USB ports, preferred those coming from chipset ?
There might be some incompatibilities with 3rd party drivers.
You can try USB2 and USB3 ports.

If you have a disk image as backup eventually consider to rollback to Win7 1st and to perform upgrade on another occasion, shall you be under any pressure now.

What you did there is a major release upgrade from an old Win7 to a new Win10.
If this is an important PC for you or your business, then you need to plan an upgrade with more care.
In a good case of luck this can be easy, but there is no guarantee for that.

Thanks a lot for your detailed reply, and sorry for my harsh words about the support. Living in Switzerland I wasn't aware of the German holiday.

I had written a long post with my latest findings, but when I pressed the Preview button, I lost everything apparently due to some malfunction of the forum page. There was a message saying that I didn't have the right to use this function. But I was logged in.

Trying to recap:

Fireface is not in CC mode.
Windows 10 was installed as an (official, i.e. paid) upgrade from 7 to 10 (maybe not such a great idea :-(

Driver versions installed after upgrade:
- driver_usb_win_1168
- driver_fw_win_3125
- Firmware: (Fireface UFX: USB 360, DSP 163, FireWire 344, Class Compliant 28).

"RME Fireface UFX" appears in Device Manager when switched on.
Connected via Firewire, Device status is shown as "working properly", although it doesn't produce any sound.
Connected via USB, Device status says:
"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)
Object Name not found."
Right before checking this I had done yet another installation of the USB driver which ended once more with a message saying that "The drivers were successfully installed on this computer"

I checked Windows Autostart and found that the following are launched from the System32 folder:
-  fireface.exe
-  TotalMixFX.exe

Shouldn't firefaceusb.exe also be autostarted? I tried running it manually before switching on the Fireface, but that didn't make any difference.

Should I try installing an older version of the drivers? Where can I download them?

Thanks again
Norbert Eichler

> There was a message saying that I didn't have the right to use this function. But I was logged in.
Try to completely logout and re-login.
I also had a rights issue not being able to visit "Neue Beiträge", which could be solved by this.

In regards to the Win 10 upgrade installation:
The usual recommendation is always to perform a clean installation.
On the other hand Microsoft spend much time on this topic and the Win10 upgrade installation is not that bad.
For me it works well, but maybe in another combination with HW/Driver/Software it might fail.

If you have weired problems after an upgrade installation, then I think its a clear indication,
to perform a clean new installation of Win10.

I would change the strategy
- restore Win7 from backup (I hope you have performed a backup)
- buy a 2nd SSD
- perform clean installation of Win10 of 2nd SSD
- implement dual boot, win7 for working, win10 for testing until its ready for use

In the IT normally nobody would change a productive system to another major OS release without
having tested the upgrade path before performing an OS upgrade.
And .. always perform backup, so that you are able to come back with least efforts.
Macrium Reflect Home could serve you very well in this regards.

My strategy:

I have so many applications, VSTs, VSTi's installed, that a clean installation of Win10 would last a long time.
Even worse, as I still have Win7 as primary system, an evaluation of every new Win10 would create a lot of efforts.
So I need to perform an upgrade installations to safe time and luckily they always worked for me.
By this I save a lot of time and after such an upgrade installation I have the same SW and drivers for evaluation.
I am using 2 disks to be able to dual-boot, either Win7 for working or Win10 for testing.

Prerequisite:
- 2 SSDs of equal size
- Macrium Reflect as backup system using disk images
- internal SATA (or external USB3) disk to store backups, fastest is USB3.2 gen2 with UASP supported on both sides
- EasyBCD to create a Boot Menue with the selection between Win7 and Win10 at boot (defaults after 5sec to Win7)

The procedure:
1. perform disk image of SSD1 / Win7 with Macrium reflect
2. perform upgrade installation to Win10 on SSD1
3. Use Macrium Reflect to clone upgraded Win10 to SSD2
4. Use Macrium Reflect to restore Win7 on SSD1

Now you have Win7 on SSD1 and Win10 on SSD2.
Bootmenue lets you choose between the one or the other OS installation.

Other advantage:
Once you work with Win10 and should something fail you can always use the 2nd SSD to restore the working Win10 version before upgrade and by dual-boot still work on the other Win10 to test fixes if there are some up to restoring Win7 if you think this is a must.

Congratulations. USB is preferable for other reasons, then you can also perform firmware upgrades, which is not possible through firewire.