Ha, sorry to bring up an old topic, but I thought it was funny that someone else had a similiar issue that I had last night. What should've been a nice session of uninstalling a few programs turned into hours of me being frustrated at windows. Had an asus m5a97 r2.0 FX board and recently got an asus prime b550-plus. After coming down with the flu, what was supposed to be a 1 or 2 day system swap on my days off work turned into a week, so after moving my drives, power supply and video card to a new case, mobo, cpu and ram, I was ready to get back on my computer for sure. Used a 2 month old System Image I created when I moved windows from one drive to another, which was the first time I used that windows feature, and found it perfect for my needs. It's unfortunate that I had to use other software to restore the image 2 months ago due to no more support, so I figured I'd re-use the image again since I'm leaving 2 of my smaller ssd's (one of which has windows) in the old case that i'm giving to my friend.
Ok so to try and make a long story short (which I don't always do right lol..) the image included software for my old motherbboard obviously, including ai suite 2, which i forget why was installed cause I almost never use it. Uninstalling thru Windows proved to be a nono, windows didn't like the fact that the software was meant for an older board model, but instead of removing it from the system, it just said Wrong model for application and that's it. Can't uninstall it, and it was bugging me. So I ended up screwing up that restored windows installation by having fun trying to force remove it by deleting the program's folders (which kept regenerating itself), and finally by trying to remove the related Asus Services via registry. One of the services apparently involved handling the board's usb controller...which I assumed was for the old board. Whether it was or not, doing what I did cause my keyboard and mouse to stop working once it booted to windows, only worked in bios. And to top it off, I messed up the BCD on the usb drive that had Macrium Reflect 8 on it (Which was used to restore the windows System Image .vhdx) so my only choice ( i was about to slap my reconstructed pc at 5am when this all started at around midnight) was to install windows fresh, which I don't mind except I wasn't prepped for that. The amount of settings and programs to re-setup is a lot, I'm still not done with it all, which is why I loved the System Image idea. It's like a TWRP backup for your phone. I'm getting to the point to where I might get Macrium loaded on the usb drive and restore that image again, and try less aggressive ways to try to uninstall ai suite 2 ;p
P.S. I failed to make a long story short