How do I recover from a failed installition of driv

Hi, I have a problem with a failed installation of the soundblaster Extigy on my Toshiba Satellite P00-88 notebook PC. The problem is that it has only partially installed on my system and the processes listed below are running at startup;
RcMan.exe
RCenter.exe
Mediadet.exe
CTNotify.exe
CTsvcCDA.exe
I can't uninstall them as they don't show up in add/remove programs, but I can stop them running with msconfig and I can switch off the disc detector software, but I would rather get rid of them altogether. I've given up on installing the Extigy as it fails every time at 4% on the progress bar of the installation program with task manager reporting the installation wizard failing to respond, although it works fine on my desktop machine.
Would it be safe to make a backup of the registry, then search through it and delete all instances of creative? The sound card on the notebook is conexant, which is the reason for trying to install the Extigy to start with as it's total rubbish as a sound card, does it use any creative entries in the registry? I made a system restore point before installing the Extigy but it and previous other restore points don't work, reporting nothing changed on the system, even though the soundblaster installation events show up on the list after the restore point. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi jutapa thank's for pointing me to that piece of software, It seems to have done the trick! I use Process Explorer (a program by the same people), that's how I found which processes where related to Creative, I wonder why the "delete process" option isn't incorporated into that program? It would have saved me even posting here LOL.

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