Method 1: Enter Regedit in the run, open the Registry Editor, find "HKEY-LOCAL-MACHINE \ System \ controlset001 \ coontrol \ Session manage \ environment, create" DWORD "under it ", name it "devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices". Double-click this key to set "data value" to "1 ". Close the registry, restart Windows XP, or log on again. In the Device Manager, click View-> hide devices, and expand "network adapter" to unmount the old network adapter, when you reset the IP address, it does not show that the IP address is occupied.
Method 2: To delete the hidden NICs in the system, Run regedit to open the Registry Editor and find the hkey_local_mchine \ System \ currentcontrolsetcontrol \ Network \ {4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318} key value. Information about local connections is saved under the sub-key. There is one or more sub-keys here. The first sub-key corresponds to "Local Connection", and the second sub-key corresponds to "local connection 2, we can also expand the subkey and then select the "connection" subkey below. In the right window, we will see the connection corresponding to it, delete the entire sub-key corresponding to the old connection.
Method 3: click "run" in the "Start" menu, enter the "cmd" command in the "run" dialog box to open the Command Prompt window, and enter the command "set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices = 1 ", press enter and enter the command "Start devmgmt. MSC to open the Device Manager. Now, select "View> display hidden devices" on the menu bar of the "Device Manager" to see the hidden "shadow" Nic (2 ), double-click the "shadow" Nic to open the "properties" dialog box of the NIC and switch to "driver ".Program"Tab, click" Uninstall ", and the" shadow "Nic will be permanently deleted from your computer.
Method 4: Search for the occupied IP address in the Registry and delete the IP address until it is exhausted.