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If you really need removing CardWare installation manually, then you have to:

1. Shut down PCCARD.EXE and MCVIEW.EXE (if open).
2. Stop CardWare Service:
   Select Start | Run and type
   net stop CWSERV
3. Remove the entire registry tree:
   HKLM\Software\APSoft\CardWare,
4. Remove the registry value:
   HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\PCCARD
5. Remove the entire registry tree:
   HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\CardWare
6. Remove the registry value: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E970-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\Installer32
7. Remove CardWare installation directory from PATH variable in
   HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment
8. Remove the entire registry trees:
   HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CWMEM2K
   HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CWSERV
   HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\PCCS
9. Delete CardWare hardware profile:
   1. In "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Hardware Profiles" registry key you should see several subkeys with names like: "0000", "0001", "0002", etc (please ignore "Current" subkey)
      1. One of above subkeys should contain subkey:
         "XXXX\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\ROOT\LEGACY_CW7MARK"
         Please find such subkey and write down it's number "XXXX" (e.g. 0001).
      2. Please remove above mentioned "XXXX" (e.g. 0001) subkey from the "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Hardware Profiles" and in the "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\IDConfigDB\HardwareProfiles\XXXX"
      3. In every remaining "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\HardwareProfiles\XXXX" subkeys, please locate subkey "XXXX\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\ROOT" and delete from it following subkeys: "LEGACY_CWMEM2K", "LEGACY_CWSERV", "LEGACY_GENCARD","LEGACY_PCCS".
   2. In "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\IDConfigDB\HardwareProfiles" registry key you should see several subkeys with names like: "0000", "0001", "0002", etc
      1. Please look at the PreferenceOrder value in every subkey. Please ignore PreferenceOrder values which are 0xFFFFFFFF. All other PreferenceOrder values should be changed in order to have enumeration from 0 to N without holes: (e.g. 0, 1, 2, ...)
      2. If any of subkey: "0000", "0001", "0002", etc. contain value FriendlyNameBeforeCW REG_SZ <text string> please copy <text string> from this value to "FriendlyName" value and remove value FriendlyNameBeforeCW.
      3. Delete subdirectory C:\Program Files\APSoft\CardWare.
      4. Remove following files from %SystemRoot%\system32
         CWSERV.EXE
         CSDLL.DLL
         CSDLLPR.DLL
         MCDLL.DLL
         CW2KINST.DLL
         MCUNINST.DLL
      5. Remove following files from %SystemRoot%\system32\Drivers
         PCCS.SYS
         CWMEM2K.SYS
         GENCARD.SYS