Remove Troubled, Hidden And Unused Devices (Ghosted Devices) From Your Computer For A Better Performance

When a new hardware inserted into computer, Windows will always try to install an appropriate driver for it to functioning. Sometimes, Windows has encountered a problems during the installations and this will leave the tail of the unfinished driver installation and that will turned that device to be a 'Ghosted Devices'.

Ghosted Devices also came from the old and the unused device that you've pulled-out from your computer and never use it again and also from the improperly disconnected devices and these devices are listed in Device Manager as a hidden devices. Maybe you think that these Ghosted Devices not going to give you any troubles and better to leave it as it is. But, it is better to know what Ghosted Devices can do that can scares you:

• Slow computer startup - Windows will loads all the installed device driver including for the Ghosted Devices and it'll make the loading time increased.
• Error on computer startup - You might get an error on each startup due to the Ghosted Devices from the unfinished driver installations and sometimes your computer always found a new hardware.
• Slow computer performance - This is due to a mixed up between the real hardware drivers and the drivers from Ghosted Devices that can caused your computer performance decreasing, lagging or sometimes not responding.
• Slow computer shutdown - Too many Ghosted Devices can make your computer shutdown takes longer than before due to Windows cannot kill the applications for properly shutdown.
• Error on computer shutdown - In some cases, Ghosted Devices can interrupt the shutdown process that sometimes causing the computer to improperly shutdown such as the monitor has been turn off but the power is still on.
• Hardware performance - Ghosted Devices can cause the hardware performance downgraded due to the duplicated and conflicted between the real hardware drivers and the Ghosted Devices driver.

GhostBuster from ghostbuster.codeplex.com can help you to get rid-off these Ghosted Devices. After installed GhostBuster, please read the developer says first:

Beware that windows has a fair number of devices that are ghosted but should not be uninistalled (like devices in the sound, video and game controller class or system and non plug-n-play devices). GhostBuster marks most of these as services.

Please do not touch anything on those mentioned sections. Before launching the program, please read this:

NOTE: For Vista and Windows 7 edit the properties of the shortcut so GhostBuster runs in WinXP compatibility mode.
NOTE: For Windows Home Server (and probably Windows 2003 Server too), the developer has encountered a registry access problems during a Remote Desktop Session and will look into it.

To remove the Ghosted Devices, right click on the listed devices that marked as 'Ghosted', then choose 'Add Device' and that device will be highlighted in yellow, click 'Remove Ghosts' to complete the procedure. If the 'OK' devices are highlighted among with the Ghosted Devices, don't worry, only the Ghosted will be uninstalled. All other devices remain untouched.



Restart your computer for changes to take effect.

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