Microsoft eHome Infared Transceiver Problem

[the hacker]

A while ago I made a help topic saying my Apostrophe key didn't work, to which I was directed to the FAQ page and felt like an idiot. As much as uninstalling the driver worked, I'm having a new problem.

The driver automatically reinstalls itself.

Is there any way to prevent this? Having to uninstall a driver every time I start up Blockland gets really irritating really fast. /discuss

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[Mr Queeba]

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/disabling-microsoft-ehome-infrared-transceiver/22f18eeb-fae0-45f9-88a7-ed25e9777cbe

[the hacker]

-snip-

That link is a bit confusing, but I'll try disabling the driver instead of uninstalling it.

[the hacker]

noedit: Can't disable. Gonna look over the link again.

[the hacker]

Multi-post: I don't have an IR receiver.

[Truce]

This is from when I had the issue in 2010, but it should still work:

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Open your Start Menu, right-click on Computer, and select Properties.
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On the left side of the window, click on Advanced system settings.
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Click on the Hardware tab and click on Windows Update Driver Settings.
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Select Never check for drivers when I connect a device and press OK.
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Open your Start Menu and search for services.msc; click on the first result.
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Scroll down to SSDP Discovery, right-click on it, and select Properties.
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In the Startup type menu, select Disabled and click on Apply and OK.
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Open your Start Menu, right-click on Computer, and select Manage.
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Click on Device Manager on the left and select Uninstall on ITECIR driver.
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Make sure to check off the checkbox to take out the others and click OK.
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Open your Start Menu and choose to restart the computer normally.
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Upon restarting, select Don't show this message again for this device.
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Navigate to SDDP Discovery again and change Startup tpe to Manual.
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[the hacker]

-snip-

I don't have an ITECIR driver. I did everything else, though. Gonna check to see if this worked.

[the hacker]

Alright, it worked! Locking.

[the hacker]

One additional note: it didn't work, the driver still reinstalls itself, but it doesn't seem to affect Blockland now. Okay, NOW I'm locking.