1000+ Unknown Devices!!  

Are you running Hyper-V with virtual machines? You may have a bad driver on the switch.


https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...6-27ab0ba0c6c4

If you cannot easily identify the cause, I would recommend an in-place repair of your system.. You won't lose a thing. Takes about 30-45 minutes.

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade

morgo1968 said:

Thanks,

No I'm not running virtual machines. I checked and I did have Hyper-V enabled. I'm not sure it needed to be.

I will look into the in place upgrade....sounds scary!

In Features, disable Hyper-V if you're not using it. Reboot and see if all that clears up. Try that before the in-place.


be back shortly..............

Can you post a screenshot of part of that so we can see what you are seeing. Thanks.

I'm assuming all of this is un-checked and you have restarted the machine.

morgo1968 said:

Screen shot below. Yes, I have re-booted the machine.



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Thanks for the help.....much appreciated.

I'm signing off for the night, it's late here in Western Australia.

Good night. When you get a chance, could you do a screenshot of Device Manager showing the Unknowns you are seeing. Just the first part, not a thousand! Thanks.

morgo1968 said:

Morning, I have just installed the latest Windows Updates and rebooted.....screenshot of Device Manager below.

Would simply uninstalling the unknown devices work? Although manually uninstalling that many would take forever. Is there a way to remove multiple devices?

There is no option in Device Manager to do that, but someone may be able to write a batch script to recursively remove/uninstall those devices based on the commonality of "Root\VMS_*************".

I've asked for more help for you. More help requested