Deleting "Bogus" multiple entered Devices

[Guest]

I have a Linksys 54G wireless adapter in my wife's Dell 4300 PC. I purchased
a second HDD for her and installed it and the adapter failed to start (Code
10). I repositioned the adapter into other PCI slots as suggested by
Linksys. I noticed that the adapter name incremented numerically each time I
changed PCI slots meaning that the device is in the registry multiple times.
If I display all "hidden" devices, I can see the multiple device entries but
I can not uninstall or delete them (the response prompt says it can't be
deleted because it's need to boot the machine which just ain't so). Any
suggestions as to how to get rid of these entries?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

You delete the Connection keys in the registry.

Mine are at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\{95C2218F-0B0D-487E-AAAE-AB3CAC5EDC5F}

remove the Network device in Device Manager, to restart and find it automatically, renumbered. (Export the key for safety)

 

[Guest]

Thanks...
JD

You delete the Connection keys in the registry.

Mine are at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\{95C2218F-0B0D-487E-AAAE-AB3CAC5EDC5F}

remove the Network device in Device Manager, to restart and find it automatically, renumbered. (Export the key for safety)