re: Removing unremoveable devices
Monday, February 11, 2002 at 11:57 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Lazerus
(284 messages posted)
Try uninstalling the actual network adapter from device manager, rather than the
miniports, also, try uninstall all your network protocols and reinstall those, might
want to check the registry for mention of miniports as well.
Just my 2 cents
Best of Luck
Lazerus
On Monday, February 11, 2002 at 11:21 am, Pentoman wrote:
>Hi people.
>
>I'm having trouble with win2k. I have a program which wants to use a microsoft WAN
>driver for my (crappy) D-Link/Realtek network card. So, i tried to change the driver,
>rather stupidly, to 'WAN Miniport Driver', and ignored the message saying the driver
>may not work.
>
>Well, it thinks it worked okay, but because of this, it thinks my network card is
>a WAN miniport. The card is not in my Network & Dial up connections, nor can I add
>it in add/rem hardware. I've moved it to another slot, and now it's re-installed
>itself, but I still have another WAN miniport driver (IP), and other programs still
>identify the other network adapter.. but the name is always garbage. It won't remove
>because I get 'Failed to uninstall the device, it may be required to boot up'
>
>
>any ideas ?
>
>Thanks v much,
>
>Russ
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