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I have a laptop with an ethernet and a Wifi connection. The names of these interfaces were "ethernet connection" and "Wifi connection". Suddenly i realized that these names have changed to "Ethernet connection 2" and "Wifi connection 2" correspondingly. I tried to remove "2" from both but i am getting an error message that an interface with this name exists without showing other interfaces listed. My problem is that i want to remove the "2". I would appreciate for your help.

My OS is windows 10 and my computer is an dell 2 years old model.

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  • What is the issue? Is something not working? Otherwise I do not think this is anything to be concerned about.
    – anon
    Commented Mar 9, 2022 at 17:38
  • I want to remove the "2".
    – Nikolao
    Commented Mar 9, 2022 at 17:38
  • Windows numbers adapters and if something changed / updated then the number changes.
    – anon
    Commented Mar 9, 2022 at 17:41
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    Open the Windows device manager, enable Show hidden devices and delete the two grayed-out network interfaces. Then the names should be free again. I assume you have installed some driver update for a system component that caused the network devices to be found again.
    – Robert
    Commented Mar 9, 2022 at 17:52
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    Windows has been doing this for a decade at least. Glance at it the wrong way & it re-enumerates the connections. It will even do this when running in VM with no physical ports to enumerate. Learn to live with it, it doesn't actually hurt anything.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Mar 9, 2022 at 17:58

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