Network devices in registry that do not show up in Devices..

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I was changing the IP on my one and only NIC, and XP prompted that the IP
was already assigned to another device! Sure enough, there was another
device with that IP in my registry in current control set - but it WON'T let
me delete it!! It is probably a left over from another NIC I had installed
for testing/troubleshooting. When it asked if I wanted to change the IP, I
said no, and it works fine, but how do I get rid of these phantom devices?
(this is not the first time I have seen this - seems to be a particular
problem with NICs)

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Mike Matheny