Removing Boot Camp Components from Windows 7

Hi. I just got an Apple Keyboard with Numberpad. To make it fully work on my PC with Windows 7, I had to install Boot camp (I used my copy of OS X Snow Leopard). Once boot camp was installed, the media keys and volume keys started working perfectly as they would on a Mac, and the volume HUD also started displaying when I change the volume (looks good). But Boot camp also installed a bunch of other stuff, including drivers that I do not need, like iSight driver, bliuetooth, etc. It also replaced some of my own drivers, but that's not an issue yet. The question is, how can I remove boot camp assistant and its components that are useless to me? What to remove, and what not to remove? I just want full functionality of the keyboard, as I have it right now...
Thanks in advance.

Try restore to earlier would undo everything.
I'd go ahead and uninstall Boot Camp for sure.
Then Device Manager
You don't want Apple serivces and startup items - though Apple TimeServices checks the clock on every boot up.
MSCONFIG to disable any startupitem and services being loaded. But there should / might be one for keyboard.
From your OS X DVD, copy the contents to a folder on Windows and then look for kbmgr and move (copy and paste) to a new folder. You don't need any of the other things for motherboard, network, etc that you can rollback or uninstall in Device Manager.
Pick up Paragon Hard Drive Manager 2011 for an easy disk to disk OS clone for backup - you can boot from either hard drive w/o problem, just change the cable or the BIOS boot device.
Hard Disk Manager Suite 2011
I'm surprised that if Apple sells their keybaord for PCs that they don't include just a device driver, or that Windows didn't pick up on what to install automatically.

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Signature: 0xAA55
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