Vista - Uninstalled network adapter immediately re-installs

Can anyone explain why, when uninstalling a network adapter class device, the
OS immediately reinstalls it. Sometimes even while the uninstall is still in
progress?

Furthermore, does anyone know how to stop this from happening?

It doesn't appear to happen with any other device class - just network
adapters. Uninstalling any other class makes it's instance disappear from
Device Manager. With network adapters though, it looks like there is a PnP
refresh and it re-detects the hardware.

Remove the network adapter or turn it off in the bios.

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"Dougal" <Dougal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:02247868-1E30-4A0C-8B3A-0F5007B28451@microsoft.com...
> Can anyone explain why, when uninstalling a network adapter class device,
> the
> OS immediately reinstalls it. Sometimes even while the uninstall is still
> in
> progress?
>
> Furthermore, does anyone know how to stop this from happening?
>
> It doesn't appear to happen with any other device class - just network
> adapters. Uninstalling any other class makes it's instance disappear from
> Device Manager. With network adapters though, it looks like there is a PnP
> refresh and it re-detects the hardware.

"Dougal" wrote:
> Can anyone explain why, when uninstalling a network adapter class device, the
> OS immediately reinstalls it. Sometimes even while the uninstall is still in
> progress?
>
> Furthermore, does anyone know how to stop this from happening?
>
> It doesn't appear to happen with any other device class - just network
> adapters. Uninstalling any other class makes it's instance disappear from
> Device Manager. With network adapters though, it looks like there is a PnP
> refresh and it re-detects the hardware.

This seems to be a Vista bug.
Please ask in microsoft.public.development.device.drivers if you need more
details or workarounds.

Regards,
--PA

Thanks Pavel. I've posted in the other forum.

"Pavel A." wrote:

> "Dougal" wrote:
> > Can anyone explain why, when uninstalling a network adapter class device, the
> > OS immediately reinstalls it. Sometimes even while the uninstall is still in
> > progress?
> >
> > Furthermore, does anyone know how to stop this from happening?
> >
> > It doesn't appear to happen with any other device class - just network
> > adapters. Uninstalling any other class makes it's instance disappear from
> > Device Manager. With network adapters though, it looks like there is a PnP
> > refresh and it re-detects the hardware.
>
> This seems to be a Vista bug.
> Please ask in microsoft.public.development.device.drivers if you need more
> details or workarounds.
>
> Regards,
> --PA
>