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[ejs]

Has anyone been suckered into installing Network Magic (Shareware that came with your new Router)? Well I did, and during the 7 day trial I was sorta convinced this was a product I was willing to pay for. Until noticing a considerable amount of network latency after installing on 4 machines (HP 64-BIT Vista Laptop, XP PRO Home Grown Box, Compaq XP Home Edition Laptop & 2k3 Server). I know some may argue it wasn't meant to be installed on a server but no where in the lacking support docs did it mention not to, so I did. No worries! In a nutshell, behind the impressive GUI and tabs filled with fairly good information, I'm not willing to sacrifice network performance over looking at a pretty picture. So here comes the good part. Once you install this app it hunkers itself down so deep into your system, its nearly impossible to uninstall. Since no uninstall trigger came with the app, naturally you go into add/remove programs and its over right? WRONG!    At least not my Vista machine. Add/Remove programs pulled the core app from all machines except my Vista machine. However, once the app was uninstalled, I still found remnants of it everywhere. Some of which wouldn't delete with a right click and delete. When you install Network Magic, it also binds  two connections to your NIC (Pure Network Device Discovery Driver and Pure Networks Wireless Driver). I still haven't figured out how to unbind and uninstall these two features from the vista box. (XP Pro, XP Home and 2k3 svr no problem).  Thoughts?

[EddieZ]

Deinstall Network Magic
Delete the NIC from Device manager and reinstall a new instance of the device (you get LAN connection 7 or someting). This should unbind anything. After a reboot you should be able to delete the sys files (although they might stlll be loaded0. If not, get the utility Unlocker (http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/) to delete any locked files.

Simple as that.

[ejs]

I'll give it a shot and keep you posted.

[bananaman]

Has anyone been suckered into installing Network Magic (Shareware that came with your new Router)?

It's not shareware! Network Magic is a Cisco/Linksys product. No wonder it doesn't play well with other vendor's products!

When Network Magic was sold and supported by the independent Pure Networks, I occasionally found it useful for quickly solving Windows networking issues. Now that Pure Networks has been acquired it is clearly a Cisco/Linksys-oriented product. I guess D-Link made a deal to distribute Network Magic when Pure Networks was still independent.

[EddieZ]

They did. It is not included anymore with Dlink products.
And the basic version is still free, but the enhanced version is Shareware.

Although I really don't care 

[ejs]

Bananaman, thanks for the history lesson but I really don't give a hoot if its shareware, Ciscoware or Pureware... I just want it off my machines. Do you have any insight on that?

[EddieZ]

Have you tried the method I gave you? There really are no other options. On XP you could try to go into the NIC properties (right click->properties), you will see a list of binded protocols like Ipv4, servcies etc. If the Network magic things are there too, try uninstalling or unchecking them.

[ejs]

  Didn't work!

[EddieZ]

Didn't work!

OK...take it easy. Please post some pics or something on which we can see what is still installed and where/with what it is binded. And what the error message is when you perform the actions I described. If done correctly these methods cannot fail...

[ejs]

woohoo!!!!! i reinstalled network magic pro then ran the uninstall and like magic it's gone.  EddieZ, thanks for stinking around and providing support.