How can I uninstall the most recent driver installation?

[Ross11]

Hi everyone, I have a weird driver problem with windows 7 that I hope someone can help me fix. I have a xbox 360 controller that I use with the computer via a wireless adapter I bought online like this one:
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Black-PC-Wireless-Controller-Gaming-Receiver-Adapter-For-Microsoft-XBOX-360-pc-/350845317861?pt=US_Other_Video_Game_Accessories&hash=item51b002b2e5
My controller is wireless but I have to keep it plugged in with the usb charger cable because the battery doesn't hold any charge anymore. I bought a replacement battery that arrived today so when I turned the controller on today that was the first time I used the controller completely wireless. I usually use headphones with my computer and when I turned on the controller today there was no difference today to my usual setup and hardware except that the charger cable for the controller was unplugged.

When I turned on the controller a very brief message came up saying installing xbox headset driver, installation successful. This was weird because my headphones are just normal headphones with no headset and a standard 3.5mm connection. Ever since, There is no sound from my headphones and everything is mute. I tried looking for xbox headset in devices and printers and in device manager so I could uninstall the driver but it isn't there. I can't find it anywhere.

Is there anyway I could bring up a list of all drivers in order of date intalled, or some other way to find the driver? I could do a system restore to early yesterday but I would rather not because I made a lot of progress with some computer programming projects I was working and backing them up and restoring them would take a long time.

 

[Eximo]

Windows system restore creates a restore point at every major installation, including drivers.

Right click "Computer" from the start menu, select properties.
Click "Advanced System Settings" from the left of the window.
Go to the 4th tab, "System Protection"
Click System Restore
You should be able to find the restore point from the time of that driver install and roll back to it.

All else fails, unplug everything soud related and uninstall all your sound drivers and re-install them.

 

[Ross11]

As I said, My earliest restore point is early yesterday. It seems it wasn't an important enough installation to create a restore point for. Also, I have tried using some speakers with same type of connection as my headphones and they won't work either. It seems to have redefined how windows should use any 3.5mm audio connection. Uninstalling sound drivers and reinstalling them won't work because that xbox headset driver will still be there and it isn't anywhere I can see it. That's why I am wandering if there is a way to make windows show drivers in order of date installed or even a software utility that can do this.

 

[MC_K7]

How come your earliest restore point is yesterday? You should have at least 10 restore points or more, unless your hard disk is full, Windows manages them based on free space available. Check System Restore options carefully, I think by default it's proposing you only 1 or 2 restore points at first, but you have an option to show more (some restore points might be hidden).

If you really can't use system restore, you could also go to the Control Panel, click on "Sound" and under "Playback" check all the options there and make sure the default playback device is the right one. If you don't see your sound card you can right-click and select "Show Disabled Device" it might be there.

 

[Ross11]

How come your earliest restore point is yesterday? You should have at least 10 restore points or more, unless your hard disk is full, Windows manages them based on free space available. Check System Restore options carefully, I think by default it's proposing you only 1 or 2 restore points at first, but you have an option to show more (some restore points might be hidden).

If you really can't use system restore, you could also go to the Control Panel, click on "Sound" and under "Playback" check all the options there and make sure the default playback device is the right one. If you don't see your sound card you can right-click and select "Show Disabled Device" it might be there.

Oops. Meant to say most recent restore point. My earliest is two day ago. I only have 2 restore points even though there is 950GB free space. Also I have already tried most of the obvious quick fixes like messing around with playback and sound settings in control panel but there has been no change to the default device or the enabled devices and messing around with different configurations hasn't fixed anything.

 

[Ross11]

how about going to the device manager and on the device click roll back driver.

It isn't an issue of rolling back a driver because the driver that was installed wasn't there before and I don't know where it is because it isn't named anything obvious like xbox headset driver. It could be one of the human interface devices but by the time I have tested all those I would be better off doing a restore because most of them require a restart after disabling and enabling.

 

[Ross11]

I've just manually checked every driver under the heading of human interface devices and sound,video and game controllers by right clicking on each driver and clicking properties>details>install date. None of them are my problem causer. So now it seems I have an invisible driver. Found another thread with this: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/118762-13-headset-stops-working-installing-wireless-receiver-controller but that was no help and I couldn't find any problems in msinfo32.exe . Also in msinfo32.exe I went to software enviroment>system drivers to get a full list of all drivers and I still couldn't find the driver. HELP PLEASE!
Also if I do a system restore which I am seriously considering at this point despite the fact that restoring my work will take over an hour, how will I prevent the computer from installing this driver again every time the controller is turned on?

 

[Ross11]

Done a system restore. Working now. Now to get back to restoring stuff I backed up.