Packet Schedular Miniport #3 Cannot remove it?

mobri09

Under my nic card in Device Manager "Packet Schedular Miniport #3" appears. It was never their before and i cannot remove it. I tried to remove it in safe mode and even remove the card physically. When i disable it and try to remove it, it saids failed to unistall, this device is required for boot up your computer"I ran all kind of spyware adaware programs and antivirus programs as well, nothing. As read articles, it discussed how this could be a trojan of some sort. Any info on this or on how to remove this would be great! Thanks

RussS

No it is not a trojan - it is very valid. I suggest that you download the latest drivers for the NIC and install them. I can't remember the exact reason for the miniport, but mostly when you update drivers it is no longer needed.

mobri09

I read that to and did update the drivers no success. I will try it again though. Thanks Russ

RussS

A question.

Has this machine been setup for broadband? If the ISP or ADSL router people have supplied and disk and that has been used it will add in all sorts of garbage into your system. I always just use the manufacturers driver for a NIC and self install it - never using any of the install progs and I then set the router up using the web interface and never ... ever use the supplied disks.

mobri09

XP finds the drivers automatically for it. I did download the driver for it off the web again and no luck....this is annoying. Plus their driver they gave me on disk is not digitally signed anyway...which - like you said is not a good idea to install

RussS

I don't worry about digitally signed drivers - that just means that they did not want to spend many thousands of dollars having MS OK them

mobri09

Well you were right. I just fixed it. I went to device manager and right clicked the mini packet schedular under the nic which had a question mark. I updated the driver, choose from a specific location, then i chose "dont search, i will choose a driver from a list".
I chose the minipacket schedular and it worked. Next thing i new, just the adapter was in device manager. I guess it was a part of the nic or something. Thanks for all your help RUss. Take it easy

RussS

Welcome dude - all in a days service