
Opening up Device Manager through another method will clear the devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 preset. Note: You must execute Device Manager from the same command prompt. Next, open up Device Manager in the same command prompt by typing: Open up a command prompt in administrative mode.įirst, we need to show all nonpresent devices. This article examples how to show hidden devices on the system. Specify a different name.”Īfter checking the Device Manager and checking show hidden devices, no additional devices would display under the network adapters. A connection with the name you specified already exists. When trying to reconfigure the IP address on the system, the following message appeared:Īdditionally, I had tried to rename the “Local Area Connection 2” to “Local Area Connection” and got a warning displaying: When trying to assign an IP address to a virtual machine that was recently migrated to another vCenter instance, I noticed that the IP address had swapped to DHCP.
