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I'm an unlucky owner of and Acer 7720G laptop which, like many in its category, has receiver for a proprietary infrared remote control device (which I did not receive with my laptop!) .
Now my problem is that the receiver is detected as Microsoft eHome MCIR Keyboard, Microsoft eHome MCIR 109 Keyboard and Microsoft eHome Remote Control Keyboard keys.
My problem is that this driver has incompatibilities with some programs I use like for example DosBox. When these devices are installed, they cause DosBox to incorrectly detect some keyboard buttons. The workaround is to remove or disable the 3 hardware devices. Unfortunately, I the disable option is grayed out and when I delete them, they are reinstalled on next restart. Is there any way to hack windows in order to prevent their installation? I was thinking about locating the drivers these devices use, but they are buried somewhere in windows installation and I don't have enough experience to find them, so I'm asking you for help.
EDIT: Using 64 bit version of windows.
1oh, and if the device isn't called circlass\irdevicev2 then go into device manager, select the eHome device, properties, then on the details tab change the dropdown to show Hardware Ids and use the value shown! – Mark Robinson – 2010-06-06T13:21:23.090
Seems to be close, but program says C:\devcon\i386>devcon remove circlass\irdevicev2 CIRCLASS\IRDEVICEV2\1&79F5D87&0&PORT1 : Remove failed No devices removed. Also, I have amd64 version of windows and this appears to be available only for i386 and IA64. Newer version of devcon seems to e available in windows driver kit. I'm going to get 7.1.0 and try with that version. – AndrejaKo – 2010-06-06T13:44:09.640
I was right. windows driver kit 7.1.0 does contain amd64 version of DevCon and it seems to be working. Thanks! – AndrejaKo – 2010-06-06T13:52:57.160
Great, I never saw Windows-7 in the tags (doh!) – Mark Robinson – 2010-06-06T16:00:16.597