

You’ll see several items listed with a long series of random numbers. To remove the settings, open the registry editor (click on Start and type in regedit.msc), and navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - SYSTEM - CurrentControlSet - Services - Tcpip - Parameters - Interfaces After you remove the settings, you can go back to method 1 and try to remove the adapter. In addition to deleting the network profile, you can also try to remove the adapter settings via the registry. Method 3 – Remove Adapter Settings via Registry Once the profile has been deleted, restart your computer and try Method 1 again. The interface name is listed at the top of each heading ( Profile on interface name) when you ran the show profiles command. netsh lan delete profile interface="InterfaceName"Īgain, if it’s a wireless interface, use wlan instead of lan. Next, type in the following command, which will delete the desired interface. In my case, I only have one profile on this computer. Now when you run the command, you should see a list of profiles. If you get some error message about the Wired or WLAN AutoConfig service not running, then click on Start, type in services.msc, right-click on the appropriate service and choose Start.

If you need to remove a wireless adapter, type this command: netsh wlan show profiles Now type in the following command to see all wired (Ethernet) adapters: netsh lan show profiles First, you have to open an elevated command prompt by clicking on Start, typing in CMD and then right-clicking on command prompt and choosing Run as Administrator. We can also try to delete the network profile via the command line and then try Method 1 again. If you don’t see the device listed here, you can try to click on View and then Show hidden devices. If all goes well, you should see that the adapter has been removed from both Device Manager and the list of network adapters in Control Panel.
Realtek network adapters for windows 10 driver#
If you want to completely remove the network adapter, I suggest selecting this option to remove the driver also.
Realtek network adapters for windows 10 software#
You’ll also see an option to delete the driver software for the device. When you select uninstall device, another window will appear asking to confirm the uninstall. Here, you will see an option called Uninstall device. The first thing you can try to do is open Device Manager (click on start and type device manager), expand Network Adapters, and then right-click on the network adapter you want to remove.
