Device null under devices hidden in Device Manager

Hello

I installed Windows 7 Professional on my system which is about 3 years old. He has a mother M2N32-SLI Asus with a processor AMD 6400 +.

The machine works well, but during the installation of Windows 7, the Null device under the devices hidden in Device Manager has an exclamation point. I right-click on it and click on uninstall and it went away but not coming back. I did it about 4 months ago and the machine seems to go well.

My questions are - that must be the Null device? Do I need to reinstall and if yes how can I do?

Any help or information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.

The Null device is an average ticket in the Twilight Zone... thinking that it is a basket or a door to nowhere.  The 'device' is a convenient place to send things you don't want to appear on the screen or anywhere else.  It is not something you need to worry with, that you will probably never use, it is mostly a convenience and test programs and programmers.  A test, you can open a command window and copy a file to the Null device:

Copy (filename) .txt Null

Copy the files. If they do, the device is present and functional, the Copy command sent a copy to her and these copies disappeared, just as they should.

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