As you may have knowledge of, if you are reading my blog. I am currently migrating off of VMWare to Hyper-V. Now, as I convert my machines to Hyper-V, it uses a totally different driver for the Network Card. I am having to rebuild the NIC settings within windows to setup the NIC for the Hyper-V VM to get the machines on the network properly again. The VMWare NIC disables and hides the NIC from the VMWare driver in Device Manager.
What this does is make Windows think it has two active network cards, even though one is disabled and removed/hidden in device manager. So, to clean things within Windows, I have to perform the following procedure to remove the hidden device:
Open PowerShell as Administrator
Next, type the following cmdlet and press Enter:
1 | set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 |
Next, open Device Manager from the PowerShell Session:
1 | devmgmt.msc |
When the Device Manager GUI opens, click the View menu
Click Show Hidden Devices
Go to the Device that is hidden, in my case the Network Adapter
Right-Click the Device and select Uninstall
Close the Device Manager GUI and PowerShell session
This cleaned the old hardware drivers off the system and allowed the current Hyper-V NIC to be the only one installed.
