Unable to uninstall virtualbox network drivers

Last time I tried to uninstall virtualbox, it failed with a BSOD. Since then, I am unable to install any version of virtualbox. The uninstaller seem's to fail to. When i look in my network drivers list, the virtualbox driver's are still there ('VirtualBox Bridged Networking Driver Miniport'). I can do what ever I want, there is no way to uninstall them. I think there might be some registery that where not removed or something like that but I don't know how to remove them safely or what registery I should remove.

Thanks for your help.


The registry keys for Oracle VirtualBox are located there:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\VBoxDrv
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\VBoxNetAdp
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\VBoxNetFlt
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\VBoxUSBMon

Corresponding files in the file system:

  • VBoxDrv VirtualBox Support Drive: c:\windows\system32\drivers\vboxdrv.sys

  • VBoxNetAdpVirtualBox Host-Only Network Adapter Driver" c:\windows\system32\drivers\vboxnetadp.sys

  • VBoxNetFltVirtualBox Bridged Networking Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\vboxnetflt.sys

  • VBoxUSBMonVirtualBox USB Monitor Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\vboxusbmon.sys

Suggested tool to finds these keys. disable, delete or access them in the file system or the registry:

MS TechNet Sysinternals Autoruns


Just go to your Device Manager, expand the network adapters, right click virtualbox related network adapters and uninstall them!


Okay, this was really really a hard one. I've tried a felt 100 things.

My solution (Windows 8) was

  1. Uninstall VirtualBox and reboot
  2. Download RunAsSystem and start "C:\Windows\regedit.exe" with it (You can check with TaskManager that it really runs as "System")
  3. Remove "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\SUN_VBOXNETFLTMP"
  4. Remove the keys recommended by @climenole
  5. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\ROOT\NET and delete all "VirtualBo Host-Only ..." adapters.
  6. Reboot
  7. Use something like CCleaner to clean the registry
  8. Reinstall VirtualBox