Hidden devices in windows 2003

Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support. Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. Device Manager lists the devices that are installed in the computer. By default, certain devices are not shown in the list. These hidden devices include:. There is a devnode for each device on a machine and the devnodes are organized into a hierarchical Device Tree.

The PnP manager creates a devnode for a device when the device is configured. A devnode contains the device stack the device objects for the device's drivers and information about the device such as whether the device has been started and which drivers have registered for notification on the device.

In Device Manager, there are two types of hidden devices in addition to the devices that are displayed:. Typical, hidden devices that are not displayed non-Plug and Play drivers, printers, and so on -and-. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help.

Can you help us improve? Are there some other ways to show hidden network interfaces? If bginfo shows me I suppose that Windows is reading this information somewhere ;- Do you know where can I find these ghost interfaces? Thanks a lot. Regards, Michele. Michele, I tried in my notebook Windows with Hyper-V, I have Tunnel adapter but the information is hidden in bginfo.

Interface index 1 is a pseudo-interface that is used for loopback named the Loopback Pseudo-Interface. Interface index 3 is a pseudo-interface that is used for 6to4 tunneling named the 6to4 Tunneling Pseudo-Interface.

Other interfaces are numbered sequentially in the order in which they are created. This order varies among computers. With the exception of the Loopback Pseudo-Interface, your interfaces might be different. This method disables IPv6 on all your LAN interfaces, connections, and tunnel interfaces but does not disable the IPv6 loopback interface.

You must restart the computer for this registry value to take effect. Mmmm, it's very difficult for me to understand why I have only one ethernet connection in bginfo in all VM with WinSrv2k8 except of this I don't think that it's something about ipv6 because I disabled it on all our VM.

I really think that it's caused by some of my wrong configurations but I don't know what. Obviously with the custom parameter WMI query , bginfo shows me the correct informations I knew this tip and I used it for teaming network interfaces ;- but in this situation I cannot understand where OS reads these ghost parameters.

I repeat: all seems to work good, it's only a "visual" problem, but I'm very curious to understand what is causing this behavior Thanks again. Friday, July 31, AM. Best regards, Vincent Hu. Thursday, August 6, AM. Hello Vincent, I have the same problem. The Bginfo. The Divice Manager is clean; no hidden network adapters. The registry appears to be clean. Yet, Bginfo reads a ghost adapter and its MAC address from somewhere.

It is definitely not from the relevant WMI classes. I also used the Devcon. If you can find out from where the Bginfo. Please let me know. Monday, August 17, AM.