How to remove old network cards in XP guest upgrade?

I had difficulties to install VMware Tools and found with three (3)! unusable old AMD PCnet etc cards network after having put in the vmxnet driver 3.

XP will not let me delete these network adapters in the Device Manager, I've currently disabled them.

Guest XP rpet "failed to uninstall the device. The device may be required to start the computer.

How can I remove them? Can I remove the vmxnet and start all over again?

I need to know the right way to remove the old NIC because I have a lot of virtual machines to upgrade.

Thank you, Tom

Hello.

Remove the old network interface cards is usually done via the Device Manager.  From the command prompt, type the following:

Set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices = 1

devmgmt.msc

When the Device Manager opens, select the view menu and choose "Show Hidden devices."

If you can not remove this way, you may need to enter in the registry.  Search HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Class the NIC name (as it appears in Device Manager).  The Characteristics field will probably have a value similar to 0 x 00000029 - change this value to 0 x 00000009 will be the NIC user removable.

As with all things related registry, have good backups and be careful.

Good luck!

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