jake said:
I have 6 local area connections in windowsxp/my network places/.i only need
one.Could you help please?
A new network connection is created for each physical network device
installed in the machine.
For example, if there's onboard LAN on the motherboard, then that will
create an entry.
Firewire devices create an entry.
To remove these, un-install them in device manager, shut down and physically
remove them from the machine.
If it's a device on the motherboard which you can't remove, then disable it
in BIOS. This will prevent windows re-detecting it and re-installin ig at
boot-time.
Do some of these connections belong to devices which are no longer in the
machine, preventing removal of the device from Device Manager?
Then use this...
Device Manager Does Not Display Devices That Are Not
Connected to the Windows XP-Based Computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315539
to force Device Manager to show the nonpresent devices.
The nonpresent ghosts should now reveal themselves.
You could then delete the nonpresent network adapter from device manager,
and re-boot.
The network connection should be gone.
