Removing daemon tools. Proper removal of Daemon Tools
daemon tools not installing? Often, after removing DAEMON Tools, install more new version becomes impossible.
This is due to the fact that DAEMON Tools was not completely uninstalled, and if latest installation this program had errors, then there are definitely drivers left in the system virtual devices, registry entries and other garbage that prevents you from reinstalling the program.
Errors may be different, but they can be treated in one way - complete removal DT and thoroughly cleaning Windows from it.
We have two options for developing the scenario.
Option one - DAEMON Tools still somehow works.
- Disable virtual drives and emulation. For this:
1.1. Click on the tray icon (located next to the clock).
1.2. Select the item “Virtual CD\DVD ROM” (Virtual CD\DVD ROM)
1.3. Select the virtual drive and context menu remove the drive (Set number of devices, then Disable).
2. Click on the tray icon (located next to the clock).
2.1 “Emulation” item – turn everything off (Emulation – All options OFF).
If this does not work, you need to remove all virtual devices manually through the device manager.
To do this, open “Device Manager” (Start – Control Panel – System – Hardware – Device Manager or right click mouse over the My Computer icon - Properties - Hardware tab - Device Manager).
In Device Manager, select DVD and CD-ROM drives.
At this point, find and delete all devices whose names end with SCSI CdRom Device
If there are other emulators on the system, although it is not recommended to install several emulators together, make sure that you are removing CdRom Device from DAEMON Tools.
To do this, right-click on the DT icon in the tray – Virtual CD\DVD ROM and for each device look at its name – “Set device parameters” – Fields “Manufacturer” “Model” (Virtual CD\DVD ROM – DEVICE No. – Set device parameters). It should match the names in Device Manager.
3.Remove DAEMON Tools using the usual method.
To do this, open the “Add or Remove Programs” menu (Start – Control Panel – Add or Remove Programs), find DT and click the remove button. Or through the main menu (Start - all programs - DAEMON Tools - Uninstall). Or through third party program deletion ( Uninstall Tool or similar).
4. Clean the registry manually (), or with any program that has a registry search.
5. Restart your computer.
If you used to have a different version of the program, you can try installing it with a new one, and then uninstall it in the standard way. If during the installation process it is detected installed version DAEMON Tools, it can be immediately removed using the installer (in the window that appears, select “Delete” or “Uninstall”).
If the problem is not resolved by the method described above, move on to the second option.
We repeat the first point and go straight to 6.
Option 2 - Uninstall DAEMON Tools manually.
1. Delete the folder DAEMON installations Tools by default is - C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Pro (in a word, the folder where you put DT)
2. Clear the folders: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP, C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp,
3. delete the DAEMON Tools folder in this path C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\DAEMON Tools Pro
4. Check again that all virtual DT drives have been deleted (point No. 1 of the first option).
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5. Open the folder C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers and delete the virtual device driver files (they may be called like this: d347bus.sys, d347prt.sys, dtscsi.sys, up55bus.sys, up55prt.sys, st77bus.sys, st77prt.sys). Just in case, do it backup copy.
6. Open “Device Manager” - “System Devices”.
Start - control panel - system - hardware - device manager or right-click on the My Computer icon - properties - hardware tab - device manager.
Uninstall the Plug and Play Bios Extension driver (the driver file name may be vax347.sys, vax347p.sys).
Uninstalling the SPTD driver.
The process is far from the simplest, but quite realistic. All described actions are carried out in safe mode.
1. Reboot the computer as soon as the download has started (the very first screen), quickly press F8 many times. When the boot selection screen appears, select “Safe Mode” and boot into it. As soon as the message “Press ESC to cancel loading SPTD.Sys” appears at the bottom of the screen, press the ESC key to cancel loading. This needs to be done so that the system allows us to remove this driver.
2. Open the registry editor and find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
and delete the partition sptd.Delete the branch HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD.
To delete these branches, you must have administrator rights.
3. If you can’t delete sptd, download a clean distribution sptd version 1.50 and higher (installation file), put it on system disk(by default C:\).
4. Boot into Safe Mode.
5. Open the Start menu - Run. In the window that opens, enter C:\sptdinst_x86.exe remove and click OK ( sptdinst_x86.exe- this is the name installation file, which you downloaded in point No. 3, it may be different).
6. Reboot to normal mode.
7. Clean the registry manually (), or with any program that has a registry search.
Now DAEMON Tools should be completely removed and there should be no problems with installation and operation.
Modern information Technology impossible to imagine without virtualization. Fashion for creating electronic digital copies has reached its maximum: everything is being digitized, from natural phenomena to living beings. The computer components themselves did not go unnoticed: virtual disk, virtual audio cable - all this has long become commonplace and familiar. Many in daily work even face virtual computer, realizable VMware applications, Virtual Box, etc.
Despite this, for the majority of users, CD drive emulator programs are the most popular. Previously, there were quite a lot of them: Virtual Emulator from Paragon, Virtual Drive, Alcohol 120% and Daemon Tools. Currently, it can be argued that the invisible confrontation has won the application for Daemon emulation Tools (DT). But everything good has reverse side, so it’s understandable that novice users began to ask the question “how to disable a virtual disk.”
When installing DT, it creates a virtual drive in the operating system and assigns a drive letter to it. Then everything is simple: insert it into and work with the image as with a regular compact. Everything seems to be clear. But very often, newbies unknowingly create extra virtual drives in the system and begin to look for the answer to how to remove a virtual disk. This does not affect performance in any way, but if you logical partitions, a hardware drive is installed, and here a few more virtual ones are added - it’s time to get lost.
There are several ways to solve this problem. We will consider them, simultaneously answering the question “how to delete a virtual disk.” The easiest way is to use the tools of the program itself that created such a disk. In our case it is DT.
Click the “Start” button and look for Daemon Tools in the list. Let's launch the application. The main program window appears, divided into two: at the top is the image directory, and at the bottom are the created virtual drives. Click to select the extra one and press the right mouse button. How to delete virtual disk here? Very simple! In the menu that appears, there is an option “Delete drive”. That's all.
The second option differs in the choice of menu item. Go to “Options”. In the “Drive letter” drop-down list, select “Not installed”.
The third option to help you understand how to delete a virtual disk in Daemon Tools. Select the extra one by clicking the left mouse button and click on the icon with the image of the drive and the red cross (a hint appears - “Delete virtual drive”). We repeat the steps for all unnecessary devices. You can remove everything. It’s just as easy to add them later.
If for some reason it is impossible to use the program tools, then you can delete the virtual disk using the tools Windows systems. Right-click the properties of the “My Computer” desktop icon. If it is missing, go to “Start” - “My Computer” - “Properties”. Next, on the left, select the link to “Device Manager”. Open the list of drives and on the virtual drive select “Properties - Disable” (do not confuse with physical device). Everything can be returned at any time by clicking “Engage”.
Similar option:
Select the properties of “My Computer” and go to the “Manage” item. Here in storage devices we are looking for the ability to manage disks. Call up the menu (right button) of the virtual drive and go to “properties”. Next is the “Driver” tab and the “Disable” button. It's that simple.
As has already been stated many times, when in the indicated ways disconnection, you can (if necessary) very quickly return everything back. But if you completely uninstall from operating system DT, the virtual disk will disappear forever (until the program is reinstalled).
When uninstalling Daemon Tools, all components are often not completely removed (especially if errors occurred during installation) - undeleted virtual device driver files remain (in the C:\Windows\system32\drivers folder), as well as registry entries (including in autorun sections), which leads to errors when loading the system, errors when reinstalling/updating DT, and the inability to permanently remove the virtual drive.
1. Disable virtual drives and emulation (if DT still works somehow):
Right-click on the DT icon in the tray->Virtual CD/DVD-ROM->Set number of devices...->Disable.
- Right-click on the DT icon in the tray->Emulation->All options OFF
If that doesn't work, remove all virtual devices manually through Device Manager -
open Start->Control Panel->System->Hardware->Device Manager->DVD/CD-ROM drives
and delete there all devices whose name ends with...SCSI CdRom Device.
If there is an Alcohol 120% emulator in the system, you should check that the devices to be deleted belong to DT
(click on the DT icon in the tray->Virtual CD/DVD-ROM and for each device look at its name (DEVICE No.: ->Set device parameters), it should match the name in the Device Manager.
In general, it is not recommended to install both emulators on the system at once; in most cases (but not always) they conflict with each other (sometimes this can be cured by updating the motherboard drivers).
2. Removing Daemon Tools in the usual way
Open Start->Control Panel->Add or Remove Programs, find DT and click "Uninstall"
or through the main menu (Start->Programs->DAEMON Tools->Uninstall)
- Clean the registry (for example using jv16 power Tools 2008, thorough mode).
- Restart your computer and repeat the installation.
P.S: If you previously had an old Daemon version Tools, then try installing the old distribution, and then uninstalling it, and if during its installation an already installed version of Daemon Tools is detected, select Uninstall in the window that appears.
If the problem persists, repeat step 1, then go to step 3.
3. Removing Daemon Tools manually
If you can't remove DT using the usual method, try doing it manually.
- Delete the DT installation folder (in C:\Program files\...).
- Clear the folders C:\Windows\Temp, C:\Documents and Settings\your_username\Local settings\Temp,
delete the folder C:\Documents and Settings\your_username\Application Data\DAEMON Tools.
- Once again, make sure that virtual drives are removed from Device Manager (step 1).
- Open the C:\Windows\system32\drivers folder and delete the virtual device driver files. Depending on the DT version,
they can be called, for example, like this: d347bus.sys, d347prt.sys, dtscsi.sys, up55bus.sys, up55prt.sys, st77bus.sys, st77prt.sys.
(keep a backup copy just in case).
- Open Start->Control Panel->System->Hardware->Device Manager->System Devices
and uninstall the Plug and Play BIOS Extension driver (driver file name may be vax347b.sys, vax347p.sys).
- Open the registry editor, use the search, find and delete all branches whose names contain the words
daemon tools, daemon, dt, driver file names (dtscsi.sys, etc.), in short, any mention of Daemon Tools and drivers,
Pay special attention to the autorun and HKLM\system\CurrentControlSet\Services branches. Go to point 4.
4. Uninstalling the SPTD driver
(all operations are carried out in safe mode)
Restart your computer in safe mode (while booting, press and hold F8(or F5 or F12) and select Safe Mode).
When you see the message “Press ESC to cancel loading SPTD.sys” at the bottom of the screen, press the ESC key.
This way the SPTD driver will not be loaded and can be removed.
- Delete the file C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\sptd.sys
- Open the registry editor, go to the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services branch, find and delete the sptd key.
- Find and delete the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD branch.
Administrator rights are required to delete these branches.
- If you can’t remove SPTD, download a clean SPTD distribution version no lower than 1.50 (SPTDinst_x86.exe),
put it on the C:\ drive. Boot into safe mode, open Start->Run,
type c:\sptdinst_x86.exe remove and click ok.
- Reboot in normal mode, clean the registry.
P.S: If the system does not allow you to delete registry branches (an error window pops up), then right-click on the registry branch, select "Permissions", select your account and put a tick in the " Full access". To do this, you must have system administrator rights.
Daemon Tools and SPTD should now be removed.
The need to remove programs arises when different cases. Perhaps the program is no longer needed and you need to free up space on your hard drive. Alternatively, the program has stopped working or is working with errors. In this case, removing and reinstallation applications. Today we will talk about how to remove - popular program for working with disk images.
Let's consider two ways. The first is removal using the program. This application is designed to uninstall any software installed on your computer. Using it, you can even remove programs that cannot be removed using regular Windows tools.
How to uninstall DAEMON Tools using Revo Uninstaller
Run the program Revo Uninstaller. Main screen application looks like this.
The window shows installed applications. You need DAEMON Tools Lite. You can use the search bar to make it easier to find. Select the program and click the "Uninstall" button in the top menu.
The removal process will begin. Revo Uninstaller creates a restore point so you can return the data on your computer to the state before it was uninstalled.
Then the standard uninstall window will open Daimon Tools. Click the "Delete" button. The program will be removed from your computer.
Now you need to start scanning in Revo Uninstaller. This is needed to remove all registry entries and DAEMON files Tools that could remain even after uninstalling the program.
The scanning process will begin.
This process will take a few minutes. You can cancel it if you don't want to wait.
Once the scan is complete, Revo Uninstaller will display a list of undeleted registry entries associated with Diamond Tools. You can remove them by clicking the Select All button and the delete button. If deletion is not necessary, click the “Next” button and confirm your action.
Undeleted files associated with DAEMON Tools will now be shown. Similar to registry entries, you can either delete them or continue without deleting them by clicking the “Finish” button.
This completes the removal. If problems arise during removal, for example an error is displayed, then you can try forced deletion Daimon Tools.
Now let's consider standard way uninstalling DAEMON Tools using Windows.
How to remove DAEMON Tools using standard Windows tools
DAEMON Tools can be removed using regular tools Windows tools. To do this, open the computer menu (shortcut on the desktop “My Computer” or through Explorer). On it you need to click the “Delete or change a program” button.
A list of programs installed on your computer will open. Find Daimon Tools in the list and click the “Uninstall/Change” button.
The same uninstall menu will open as in the previous uninstallation option. Click the "Delete" button just like last time.
The program will be removed from the computer.
We hope that these instructions helped you remove DAEMON Tools from your computer.
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Daemon infection method
Daemon copies its file(s) to yours HDD. Typical name file (*.*) . Then it creates a startup key in the registry with the name Daemon and meaning (*.*) . You can also find it in the process list with the name (*.*) or Daemon.
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How to remove Daemon manually
This problem can be resolved manually by deleting registry keys and files associated with Daemon, removing it from the startup list and de-registering all related DLLs files. In addition, missing DLL files must be restored from the OS distribution if they were damaged Daemon.
In order to get rid of Daemon, You need:
1. Terminate the following processes and delete the corresponding files:
Warning: you need to delete only files whose checksums are in the list of malicious ones. Your system may have necessary files with the same names. We recommend using for safe solution Problems.
2. Delete the following folders:
3. Remove following keys and\or registry key values:
Warning: If registry key values are specified, you should delete only the specified values and leave the keys themselves intact. We recommend using this to solve the problem safely.
4. Reset browser settings
Daemon can sometimes affect your browser settings, such as changing search and home page. We recommend that you use free feature"Reset browser settings" in "Tools" in the program to reset all browsers at once. Please note that before this you need to delete all files, folders and registry keys belonging to Daemon. To reset browser settings manually, use these instructions:
If you are using Windows XP, click Start, And Open. Enter the following in the field Open without quotes and press Enter: "inetcpl.cpl".
If you are using Windows 7 or Windows Vista, click Start. Enter the following in the field Search without quotes and press Enter: "inetcpl.cpl".
Select a tab Additionally
Under Reset settings Internet browser Explorer, click Reset. And press Reset again in the window that opens.
Select checkbox Delete Personal settings to delete history, restore search and home page.
After Internet Explorer has completed the reset, click Close in the dialog box.
Warning: Reset browser settings V Tools
For Google Chrome
Find the folder Google installations Chrome at: C:\Users\"username"\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\User Data.
In folder User Data, find the file Default and rename it to DefaultBackup.
Launch Google Chrome and it will be created new file Default.
Google Chrome settings reset
Warning: In case this doesn't work use free option Reset browser settings V Tools V Stronghold program AntiMalware.
For Mozilla Firefox
Open Firefox
From the menu, select Help > Problem Solving Information.
Click the button Reset Firefox.
After Firefox finishes, it will show a window and create a folder on your desktop. Click Complete.
Warning: This way you will lose your passwords! We recommend using the free option Reset browser settings V Tools in the Stronghold AntiMalware program.