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duplicate hardware devices in control panel
Hello. In the Safe Mode, when looking in Control Panel
and going further into the Device Manager, many of my hardware devices (maybe 10 or so) show exact duplicate hardware devices - mostly these 10 or so have two duplicates - but one or two even have three duplicates. If I try to remove one (usually I try the top one of the pair or triplet) - in most cases when I reboot the operating system does a reinstall on what I had just removed. A.) Is there any way to tell which of the two (or three) might be redundant and unnecessary; B.) is there a simple way to let the system take these out? Also, I did find something on the internet that I tried, which was running Dxdiag -ghost and that ended up showing no "ghost" drivers. Although I did run that from a normal Windows reboot and not in the Safe Mode. When I went back to the Safe Mode after that, all those duplicates were still there. Thanks for you help. Bob |
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duplicate hardware devices in control panel
In safe mode, delete all of the multiple devices, and let the system install
a new one. Note that multiple devices probably isn't causing a problem, although in some cases cleaning out multiple devices does help for particular issues. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (DTS) "bob" wrote in message ... Hello. In the Safe Mode, when looking in Control Panel and going further into the Device Manager, many of my hardware devices (maybe 10 or so) show exact duplicate hardware devices - mostly these 10 or so have two duplicates - but one or two even have three duplicates. If I try to remove one (usually I try the top one of the pair or triplet) - in most cases when I reboot the operating system does a reinstall on what I had just removed. A.) Is there any way to tell which of the two (or three) might be redundant and unnecessary; B.) is there a simple way to let the system take these out? Also, I did find something on the internet that I tried, which was running Dxdiag -ghost and that ended up showing no "ghost" drivers. Although I did run that from a normal Windows reboot and not in the Safe Mode. When I went back to the Safe Mode after that, all those duplicates were still there. Thanks for you help. Bob |
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