Boot XP in SAFE MODE and install the drivers, works every time.

and no its says adugy but read else were that these might work weith xfi cards???
but only got adugy cards listed so didnt want to try it but did find on here the old xfi drivers pack.but there is a new march 8th driver out for xfi and wanted to no if danny boy will be makeing a new pack from these????

seems these older cards have more support at mo than my new fatal1ty pro card?? but this card hasnt sounded better than with his drivers but is missing the bit software that goes in by clock to switch from music to games and controls all the options so dont ave to go in control panel which i used a lot but im sure that i cant use that with these as it says i have to wipe all my old creative software from my drive so can i use it maybe just try to install that as i could change all my settings from that panel control…like the doby i cant see that anywere apart from it sounding better i cant see any diff to my software options now but guess he made the adigy drivers better not xfi???

takeown /f C:\Windows\*.CDF

and

cacls C:\Windows\*.CDF /G User:F

you must press Win-R, type cmd and enter those commands. Its important that you do as I said and after you type cmd (and press enter of course:)), you’ll open command prompt and find yourself in your user folder: C:\Users\User (Instead of User there’s your name). You must enter the commands from there. This is because calcs.exe works in that folder only. Now you can safely remove left CDF files.

…as with every other time I have installed my drivers I went to add/remove programs uninstalled the control panel first, no problem, uninstalled the x-fi driver no problem, rebooted, canceled vista trying to install its own drivers, only to be welcomed by…

“Error: You have previously installed drivers without rebooting. Please reboot and try again”

…now, I can not install the new drivers, I can not install the old drivers (pretty much wont let me install anything that is creative software) I am not an expert with computers, but I know quite a lot, I built the thing and have done a lot of troubleshooting, I seem to have picked up a lot from dealing with problems -_-…

…anyhow I tried the most basic thing to see if it would work, system restore, sure enough it restores my computer with my card recognized and installed but the software is full of errors, for example I can not open the control panel because it does not think its there, and this applies to trying to get rid of it from add/remove programs…

…I have tried booting in safe mode, clean boot, and have tried to remove all traces of creative from my computer from the C: drive, windows folder, driver folders, temp folders, registry…etc, manually and with, ccleaner, driversweeper, drivercleanerpro and a few others but nothing works, I still get the same error message…

…I am pretty certain it is something to do with the creative software as there are a few others on the net I have looked at with this problem but theirs was fixed after the drivercleaner pro or ccleaner stage, everything else works in the computer, games even run when I system restored, but I can not make any changes to the sound settings, update/remove drivers, it is stuck…

…the final thing is that after I uninstalled and rebooted the first time, this appeared in my add/remove programs “Creative Soundblaster Properties x64 Edition” which when I try and remove says that the program did not uninstall properly, and I get an option of using recommended removal settings or selecting it did remove properly, however it was not there to remove in the first place…

…I really would appreciate some help, I am confident if I wipe everything to do with creative from my computer it will allow me to install the drivers again, sorry for the long post, and thanks