I've installed Update Service and MediaGo for my Sony Ericsson phone but one of the drivers that was installed along with the software is causing problems in Windows 7 x64.

Looking in the Event Log I see the following warning:

Detected unrecognized USB driver (\Driver\seehcri)

This is the driver corresponding to the Sony Ericsson seehcri Control Device. The failure to recognize the USB driver is causing problems with other services, namely the VMware USB Arbitration Service. It should normally start automatically but, due to the failure to recognize the seehcri USB driver, it fails with the following error:

Error 31: A device attached to the system is not functioning.

Disabling the driver has not helped at all. The VMWare service still refuses to start and I keep getting both warnings in the Event Log.

I would like to remove the Sony Ericsson driver but unfortunately, that's not possible. Uninstalling the Sony Ericsson seehcri Control Device from Device Manager causes Windows to almost completely freeze up while trying to look for drivers for unrecognized hardware. Windows tries over and over again to locate and install drivers for an Unknown device, failing every time. Looking in Device Manager, it simply fills up with hundreds of unknown devices, also using up the CPU to almost 85% in the process.

What should I do? How can I safely remove the driver without causing Windows to look for a new driver?