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pentagonik wrote:Please provide the "setupapi.dev.log" file if possible/present, or just the plain "setupapi.log" file if not. Before starting the VBox installation again make sure you deleted (as written in the article) the files to not have old lines in it.

[Device Install Log]
     OS Version = 6.0.6001
     Service Pack = 1.0
     Suite = 0x0100
     ProductType = 1
     Architecture = amd64

[BeginLog]

>>>  [Staging Package To Driver Store - phase 1 - VBoxUSB.inf]
>>>  Section start 2009/09/14 18:51:29.751
     sto: Inf Path = C:\Program Files\Sun\VirtualBox\drivers\USB\device\VBoxUSB.
inf
     sto: Flags = 0
     sto: Processor Architecture = 9
     inf: Opened INF: 'C:\Program Files\Sun\VirtualBox\drivers\USB\device\VBoxUSB.inf' ([strings] <src = normal>)
     inf: Opened INF: 'C:\Program Files\Sun\VirtualBox\drivers\USB\device\VBoxUSB.inf' ([strings] <src = normal>)
     inf: Opened INF: 'C:\Program Files\Sun\VirtualBox\drivers\USB\device\VBoxUSB.inf' ([strings] <src = normal>)
     inf: Opened INF: 'C:\Program Files\Sun\VirtualBox\drivers\USB\device\VBoxUSB.inf' ([strings] <src = normal>)
     inf: Opened INF: 'C:\Program Files\Sun\VirtualBox\drivers\USB\device\VBoxUSB.inf' ([strings] <src = normal>)
!!!  sto: Could not create temporary directory for driver package.
<<<  Section end 2009/09/14 18:51:29.820
<<<  [Exit status: FAILURE(0x80070005)]

To be able to uninstall you would need to copy the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion?\DIFxApp\Components registry key (and its sub-keys) from the HKEY_CURRENT_USER to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE branch.

Here are the steps for doing this:

1. run the registry editor (press windows + R , type regedit and press OK)
2. in the left pane browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion?\DIFxApp\Components -> there should be some sub-keys having GUID names located under the "Components"
3. export the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion?\DIFxApp\Components to some file (right-click the "Components" key, select "Export", type a file name where you want to export the settings (e.g. C:\foo.reg) )
4. open the exported .reg file (either with notepad or some other text editor or right-click it in explorer and select "Edit")
5. substitute the HKEY_CURRENT_USER with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in the file, save and close the ditor.
6. import the .reg file (either double-click it in the explorer or in the registry editor use menu File->Import-> browse to a file, select it and press "Open")

cosechador wrote:I was having the same problem installing 3.0.6 and thought that uninstalling 2.2.x would help but ran into problems uninstalling.