How to really uninstall a network adapter/network connection?

[Peter Hanke]

When I go to START->Settings->Network Connection then I have a lot of unused, outdated
network connection entries which might interfere with/disturb other network configurations.

I would like to permanently get rid of them.

The only way I found so far is to disable them.

Is there a way to completely uninstall them?

Is there a way to uninstall whole network adapters without uninstalling
the software which create them originally?

Peter

 

[smlunatick]

When I go to START->Settings->Network Connection then I have a lot of unused, outdated
network connection entries which might interfere with/disturb other network configurations.

I would like to permanently get rid of them.

The only way I found so far is to disable them.

Is there a way to completely uninstall them?

Is there a way to uninstall whole network adapters without uninstalling
the software which create them originally?

Peter

An example would be required in order to give you a more complete
answer.

In general, you should only have a few network connections:

Local Area Connection
Wireless Area ???
Bluetooth Network


and few Virtual Private Network "icons."

 

[Jack [MVP-Networking]]

Hi
If you have only one Network Card only one connection is real, otherwise
there would not be connection at all.
Delete all the other icons.
If the remained connection has a high number it does not mean that the other
connections exist. The number is an Id number and Not a sign to how many
connections are really functioning.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking).