I noticed this awhile back, and was worried about it and didn't know what to do, but let it go because I had other things to worry about. Now, I kind of want answers as to why this happened.
Awhile back I noticed that my network adapters section in Device Manager had grown from Realtek PCIe BGE Family Controller and Realtek RTL wi-fi adapter (I'm not sure if these were the only two at the time, but I know there didn't use to be quite so many listed here) to include WAN miniports, and as I'm looking at it right now, there are 8 of them. I want to know which I can delete, and if possible, what they might do, so I'll leave a list of what they are, as well as what possible problems they might cause.
WAN Miniport (IKEv2)
WAN Miniport (IP)
WAN Miniport (IPv6)
WAN Miniport (L2TP)
WAN Miniport (Network Monitor)
WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
WAN Miniport (PPTP)
WAN Miniport (SSTP)
I have a functioning knowledge of computers, but nothing extreme, and most of the harder things I have to do I find step-by-step guides online, but haven't found anything that seems helps with this situation, if help is even needed.
In case its needed, I run a HP EVNY 15 notebook, Intel core i7 processor, on windows 10.
Awhile back I noticed that my network adapters section in Device Manager had grown from Realtek PCIe BGE Family Controller and Realtek RTL wi-fi adapter (I'm not sure if these were the only two at the time, but I know there didn't use to be quite so many listed here) to include WAN miniports, and as I'm looking at it right now, there are 8 of them. I want to know which I can delete, and if possible, what they might do, so I'll leave a list of what they are, as well as what possible problems they might cause.
WAN Miniport (IKEv2)
WAN Miniport (IP)
WAN Miniport (IPv6)
WAN Miniport (L2TP)
WAN Miniport (Network Monitor)
WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
WAN Miniport (PPTP)
WAN Miniport (SSTP)
I have a functioning knowledge of computers, but nothing extreme, and most of the harder things I have to do I find step-by-step guides online, but haven't found anything that seems helps with this situation, if help is even needed.
In case its needed, I run a HP EVNY 15 notebook, Intel core i7 processor, on windows 10.
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