Delete ghost network adapters in Windows VM

By Cèbe, . Permalink Network

When migrating some VM from vmware to HyperV, I noticed some strange behaviors that were confirmed by running the bginfo tool: some network adapters were hidden in the background, waiting to cause some weird errors someday (especially because of the MAC address cloning...)

Therefore, I found some articles to clean up and remove ghost network adapters:

Or manually like this:

  1. Open a command prompt
  2. Type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1, and then press Enter.
  3. Type Start DEVMGMT.MSC, and then press Enter.
  4. Click View, and then click Show Hidden Devices.
  5. Expand the Network Adapters tree.
  6. Right-click the dimmed network adapter, and then click Uninstall.

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