{"id":308,"date":"2019-03-11T20:18:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T01:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itblog.ldlnet.net\/?p=308"},"modified":"2019-03-11T20:18:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T01:18:18","slug":"removing-hidden-devices-in-device-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itblog.ldlnet.net\/index.php\/2019\/03\/11\/removing-hidden-devices-in-device-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing Hidden Devices in Device Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#0caa09\" class=\"has-text-color has-small-font-size\"><strong>Open <em>PowerShell<\/em> as Administrator<br>Next, type the following cmdlet and press <em>Enter<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"lang:PowerShell nums:False\">set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#0caa09\" class=\"has-text-color has-small-font-size\"><strong>Next, open <em>Device Manager<\/em> from the <em>PowerShell<\/em> Session:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"lang:PowerShell nums:False\">devmgmt.msc<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#0caa09\" class=\"has-text-color has-small-font-size\"><strong>When the D<\/strong><em><strong>evice Manager GUI<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0opens, click the\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>View<\/strong><\/em><strong> menu<br>Click\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>Show Hidden Devices<\/strong><\/em><br><strong>Go to the <em>Device that is hidden<\/em>, in my case the Network Adapter<br><em>Right-Click<\/em> the Device and select <em>Uninstall<\/em><\/strong><br><strong>Close the <\/strong><em><strong>Device Manager GUI<\/strong><\/em><strong> and <\/strong><em><strong>PowerShell<\/strong><\/em><strong> session<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This cleaned the old hardware drivers off the system and allowed the current Hyper-V NIC to be the only one installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\">HAPPY TROUBLESHOOTING!<br>PLEASE COMMENT!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have knowledge of, if you are reading my blog. I am currently migrating off of VMWare to Hyper-V. Now,<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/itblog.ldlnet.net\/index.php\/2019\/03\/11\/removing-hidden-devices-in-device-manager\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,140,3,16],"tags":[15,141,142,143,144,8,145,100,146,20],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-hyper-v","category-powershell","category-windows","tag-cmdlet","tag-device-manager","tag-devmgmt","tag-hidden-device","tag-nic","tag-powershell","tag-virtual-machine","tag-vm","tag-vmware","tag-windows","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itblog.ldlnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itblog.ldlnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itblog.ldlnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itblog.ldlnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itblog.ldlnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itblog.ldlnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/itblog.ldlnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itblog.ldlnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itblog.ldlnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itblog.ldlnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itblog.ldlnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}