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Last time I tried to uninstall virtualbox, it failed with a BSOD. Since then, I am unable to install any version of virtualbox. The uninstaller seem's to fail to. When i look in my network drivers list, the virtualbox driver's are still there ('VirtualBox Bridged Networking Driver Miniport'). I can do what ever I want, there is no way to uninstall them. I think there might be some registery that where not removed or something like that but I don't know how to remove them safely or what registery I should remove.

Thanks for your help.

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  • This question is confusing. From the way it is written, it would seem you have the VirtualBox virtual network driver installed in the physical (host) PC! If so, I would love to know how you did that.
    – CarlF
    Oct 6, 2011 at 14:45

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The registry keys for Oracle VirtualBox are located there:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\VBoxDrv
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\VBoxNetAdp
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\VBoxNetFlt
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\VBoxUSBMon

Corresponding files in the file system:

  • VBoxDrv VirtualBox Support Drive: c:\windows\system32\drivers\vboxdrv.sys

  • VBoxNetAdpVirtualBox Host-Only Network Adapter Driver" c:\windows\system32\drivers\vboxnetadp.sys

  • VBoxNetFltVirtualBox Bridged Networking Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\vboxnetflt.sys

  • VBoxUSBMonVirtualBox USB Monitor Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\vboxusbmon.sys

Suggested tool to finds these keys. disable, delete or access them in the file system or the registry:

MS TechNet Sysinternals Autoruns

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  • The problem is the auto runs. If you run the tool above, filter for VBox, remove the auto-running services, and reboot - you can then uninstall virtualbox using the default installer no problem.
    – nVentimiglia
    Aug 2, 2015 at 23:01
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Just go to your Device Manager, expand the network adapters, right click virtualbox related network adapters and uninstall them!

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  • This is the right answer, the right way to do it, and obvious once you think about it :) - you can also select delete to drivers when you choose to 'uninstall' the device.
    – Daniel Sokolowski
    May 22, 2015 at 18:25
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    I get BSOD just like uninstalling VirtualBox when uninstalling the drivers
    – Hong
    Jul 18, 2015 at 21:35
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Okay, this was really really a hard one. I've tried a felt 100 things.

My solution (Windows 8) was

  1. Uninstall VirtualBox and reboot
  2. Download RunAsSystem and start "C:\Windows\regedit.exe" with it (You can check with TaskManager that it really runs as "System")
  3. Remove "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\SUN_VBOXNETFLTMP"
  4. Remove the keys recommended by @climenole
  5. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\ROOT\NET and delete all "VirtualBo Host-Only ..." adapters.
  6. Reboot
  7. Use something like CCleaner to clean the registry
  8. Reinstall VirtualBox
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    sounds good, but for me, in Win8.1, RunAsSystem adds the context menu option (after crashing), but it fails to run RegEdit (or any other program)
    – Greg Woods
    May 7, 2014 at 11:16
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    I successfully used live.sysinternals.com/psexec.exe with the -s and -i options to run regedit as SYSTEM
    – Greg Woods
    May 7, 2014 at 11:28
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Download the version that you want to uninstall and execute it.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds

The installer will give you the option for Repair or Remove the Virtualbox version installed.

After the remove you will must reboot your computer.

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  • Tried, still got a Bsod
    – nVentimiglia
    Aug 2, 2015 at 22:51
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A System Restore to the date before the installation should sort it.

Failing that, export:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DIFxApp\Components

Open the .reg file in notepad and substitute the HKEY_CURRENT_USER with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

Import the .reg file and reboot.

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    I am very curious to know what it will do exactly?
    – Drahakar
    Feb 18, 2011 at 23:14

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