Way too many network adapters.
I'm running the 3-month trial of Windows 7 x64, and I've got way too many network adapters when I run ipconfig, yet when I go into the device manager I only see the defaults and the ones that I've installed (Hamachi, VMWare). How do I get rid of these extra adapters, or at least get them to not show in ipconfig? C:\Users\Wean7t>ipconfig Windows IP Configuration Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : *** Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : *::*:*:*:* IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.121.240.110 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.248.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.121.240.1 Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : *** Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : *::*:*:*:* IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.121.70.10 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.121.70.1 Ethernet adapter Hamachi: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 5.167.18.15 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.0.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 5.0.0.1 Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::143f:52ca:2704:17da%17 IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.0.16 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::711c:c590:8b0:7e19%18 IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.0.32 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : Tunnel adapter isatap.{35886EC0-12FD-49C4-8F97-FE6B1E23DF9E}: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Tunnel adapter Reusable Microsoft 6To4 Adapter: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 9: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Tunnel adapter 6TO4 Adapter: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 11: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Tunnel adapter isatap.{425D7640-FE60-490D-AB0F-894F513A527F}: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Tunnel adapter isatap.oncampus.local: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 12: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : *:*:*::*:* Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : *:*:*::*:* Tunnel adapter isatap.{3D754C96-1A46-4A9D-BA62-5D3C443141CB}: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : C:\Users\Wean7t>
November 10th, 2009 4:04pm

Isn't it something like yours: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general/browse_thread/thread/1724c85c35779a08?pli=1 ? --- Paul Svirin StarWind Software developer ( http://www.starwindsoftware.com )
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November 10th, 2009 4:45pm

Hi Jids, if you dont use IPv6, you can try to disable IPv6 and check the result. Disable IPv6 ======== 1) Go to Control Panel - Network Connections. 2) Right-Click on the connection and click Properties. 3) Uncheck the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Version 6 in the list and click OK. 4) Please reboot the computer to see if it works. Hope this helps!Sean Zhu - MSFT
November 12th, 2009 10:20am

This did not help for me. There are 130 "Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection", ipv6 is disabled, unkown network device removed. What are they caused by, we cannot see essential ip info
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August 13th, 2010 10:38am

What are they caused by, Microsoft Doesn`t know too , please look at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistanetworking/thread/32b0c129-fa2d-431a-a275-4288c729605a/#44b774cf-3030-41a5-929e-56ef891be156
December 11th, 2010 12:15pm

To remove the problem tunnel adapters download DEVCON.exe and run the following command: devcon remove *6TO4MP Ensure IP6 is disabled... Not sure why this is happening, but that gets things up and running... Robert
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May 11th, 2011 11:44am

On W7 & WS08 6to4 Tunnel adapter are created if you have an IPv4 on a IPv4 private range. This 6to4 tunnel interface is not created on IPv4 range like : 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16, and 169.254.0.0/16. One way to prevent 6to4 to be autoamtically created is to use the following command netsh interface ipv6 6to4 set state disabled It may be necessary to perform similar action on the teredo interface netsh interface teredo set state disabled
May 31st, 2011 11:54am

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