For some reason parallels has never worked with my boot camp partition, don't know why

But Examsoft's SofTest is still refusing to run because it still detects vmware fusion. Uploaded and attached is the image of the SofTest error window. It seems that it must be detecting some process that vmware fusion is still running. It seems you are an employee there, so I hope you can track down how to fix this, and feedback to your developers to not allow vmware fusion to run anything when vmware fusion is not being used. If I don't get this fixed in about 3 days, I'll have to wipe out my bootcamp image and reinstall Windows. Thanks.

It's possible that we're forgetting to uninstall something and SofTest is picking up on it, but I think Bob's response is more likely. There doesn't seem to be any trial version of SofTest available, and I don't think we can figure out what it's doing without getting our hands on it (or if someone with a copy helps out as Woody suggests).

I was going to suggest that maybe they saw some hidden devices left behind in the registry, but never mind, looks like you got the answer about what's happening...

A better way would be to delete any vmware-specific files at shutdown of the virtual machine and reinstall them upon startup of the virtual machine. That would ensure that a natively booted bootcamp volume is not affected by unneeded drivers.

Just because hardware is missing doesn't mean that the drivers should be deleted from disk, that's way too drastic. The driver should detect that there is no matching hardware and not do anything, if the OS bothers to load it at all. The problem is that Examsoft is looking for the files on disk, which doesn't have anything to do with whether you're running in a virtual environment. I think this is sloppy on their part.

I agree that we should uninstall the three files if you uninstall Tools, but that's very different from deleting Tools on every reboot.

This seems to be the approach that Parallels (2.x) takes. At every startup of the virtual machine, there is a short pause where it installs its specific drivers. There is no trace of Parallels when booted in native mode, but for a network protocol for the virtual network interface in each network connection (probably would take too long to delete and reinstall this every time).

I doubt they actually reinstall their Tools each time (rather, it's probably what they do with Windows activation or something).