BonzaiDuck
Lifer
I'm still getting acquainted with Windows 10.
Through much blood, sweat and tears, I have set up a dual-boot system of Win 7 with Win 10.
I have eliminated all the red-bang Event Log errors in both OSes, and any yellow-bang warnings that I can. Anything that remains is just a "benign warning."
I discovered in this learning process, after installing and removing, or simply swapping an SATA or NVMe drive, that I had "ghost disks" reported in Device Manager under "disk drives." With the kind advice and assistance of another member, I removed these. They had been "hidden drives" -- revealed by choosing "Show hidden devices" in DM "View." They unmistakably indicated drives that had been in the system, but had been physically removed.
Now I also discover that I have "ghost" network adapters. Here are the ones that are not hidden or "grayed out:"
Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V
Kaspersky Security Data Escort Adapter
Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
Microsoft Kernel Debug Network Adapter
Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Here are the ones which were "hidden" and appear as grayed-out "ghosts:"
WAN Miniport (IKEv2)
WAN Miniport (IP)
WAN Miniport (IPv6)
WAN Miniport (L2TP)
WAN Miniport (Network Monitor)
WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
WAN Miniport (PPTP)
WAN Miniport (SSTP)
[Bold versus not-bold is "analog" to the icon appearances.]
I might feel comfortable deleting "ghost drives." Now I'm wondering what to do with these eight "ghost" network "adapters." I did nothing to put them in DM -- they were just "always there" before I checked "Show hidden devices."
Should I just leave them alone? Could someone offer a decent explanation as to what they "do?"
[also posted in the "Network" Forum]
Through much blood, sweat and tears, I have set up a dual-boot system of Win 7 with Win 10.
I have eliminated all the red-bang Event Log errors in both OSes, and any yellow-bang warnings that I can. Anything that remains is just a "benign warning."
I discovered in this learning process, after installing and removing, or simply swapping an SATA or NVMe drive, that I had "ghost disks" reported in Device Manager under "disk drives." With the kind advice and assistance of another member, I removed these. They had been "hidden drives" -- revealed by choosing "Show hidden devices" in DM "View." They unmistakably indicated drives that had been in the system, but had been physically removed.
Now I also discover that I have "ghost" network adapters. Here are the ones that are not hidden or "grayed out:"
Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V
Kaspersky Security Data Escort Adapter
Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
Microsoft Kernel Debug Network Adapter
Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Here are the ones which were "hidden" and appear as grayed-out "ghosts:"
WAN Miniport (IKEv2)
WAN Miniport (IP)
WAN Miniport (IPv6)
WAN Miniport (L2TP)
WAN Miniport (Network Monitor)
WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
WAN Miniport (PPTP)
WAN Miniport (SSTP)
[Bold versus not-bold is "analog" to the icon appearances.]
I might feel comfortable deleting "ghost drives." Now I'm wondering what to do with these eight "ghost" network "adapters." I did nothing to put them in DM -- they were just "always there" before I checked "Show hidden devices."
Should I just leave them alone? Could someone offer a decent explanation as to what they "do?"
[also posted in the "Network" Forum]
