WinRing0 cleanup, after move to PawnIO

[SnoutBaron]

So with 1.36, ZenTimings moved over to a different driver, what clean-up should we do to get rid of whatever old driver ZenTimings was using?

I read the ReadMe, so is it just the InpOut64 driver that should be removed? I'm on a 64bit system, of course.

Thank you.

[irusanov]

Hello,

Unfortunately, the InpOut driver is still needed and used, only WinRing0 is removed and replaced with PawnIO. Previously, WinRing0 was extracted in the directory app as ZenStates-Core.sys and removed on each app close. If you still have it as a file, then you can safely remove it. You can also remove settings.enc, iv.bin, key.bin files which were used to store AGESA version and to prevent easy manipulation. You can also remove WinRing0.LICENSE.txt or any other file that starts with WinRing.

[irusanov]

You can also check if the service is still there. It can happen if more than one app is using it at the same time and the app that is closed last does not remove the service (legacy code).

Open a Command Prompt as Administrator

1. Check if service is still there

sc query WinRing0_1_2_0

2 Stop the service

sc stop WinRing0_1_2_0

3 Delete it

sc delete WinRing0_1_2_0

Some of these might fail if it is being used at the moment. Normally, if it had been properly cleaned up, you should not see any matches in step 1.

The specified service does not exist as an installed service.

If some of the steps fail, e.g. service can't be stopped, it is best to reboot the machine and then try again.