Windows 7 How to delete or reset adapters

Typically, a few minutes after posting this, it occurred to me I could try deleting them from the registry. I'll give that a go.

Hmm.. bit too tricky for me doing it in the registry. Back to the original question.

There is a few different things you can do that may get rid of any pre-existing information regarding the network connection names, but they all seem to me like using a machete when a scapel would be a better tool.
Why don't you just rename the connections to something a bit more intuitive like wired and wireless, or perhaps, RealTekPrimary and RealTekSecondary?
If you are looking to doing something a little more drastic you could try
Device manager, uninstall the adapters and reboot....or
Rebuilt the TCP/IP stack
command prompt type netsh int ip reset C:\IpStackReset.txt ....or
Reset Winsock
command prompt type netsh winsock reset
All three seem a little drastic if I understand correctly what you are attempting to accomplish.

Hi, Thanks for the reply. It's not really the names that is bothering me. More the fact that I can't rename one of them to 2 since it tells me 2 already exists. This implies that everything is not clean. And since my real objective is to get teaming working, I do need a clean setup since the teaming software from realtek creates a new virtual adapter. I'm happy to do the ip reset - will that just give me a the default LAN1 and LAN2?

thanks
Dave

Thanks, uninstalling the two devices worked fine.

I still can't get the teaming to work though. It's a longshot, but has anyone got realtek teaming working with Windows 7. I'm using a Shuttle X58 board.

I heard realtek have stopped making/supporting their teaming software, so maybe that was because of Windows 7....

thanks
Dave