I'll be damned, even mo' bettah, thanks! Dave
-----Original Message----- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 5:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Neat tip of the week Just to amplify what you said....you need to start devmgmt.msc from the same command prompt that you issue the set command from, so it picks it up. -----Original Message----- From: Anders Blomgren [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 4:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Neat tip of the week Start cmd.exe Type: set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1 Type: devmgmt.msc Same thing without the reboot. -Anders Sent from my iPhone On 3 jan 2012, at 07:22, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok so this is an oooold tip, but I just recently had a need for it. > > Ever have a VM that when you assigned it an IP address it complained that > (and I am paraphrasing) "a hidden network device also has this IP address > and if it becomes active there will be a conflict" but when you go to device > manager and have it show hidden devices there's only one NIC listed? I see > this usually when I P2V a machine, but also moving a VM from one environment > to another (just copying the VHD's and using the copy to create a new VM) > will generate this as well. In any case, here's how you can remedy that > little issue: > > Add in your system environment variables the variable > DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES set it's value to: 1 reboot your > machine goto your device manager show all hidden devices > > Works for 2003 Server and later Windows OS's. Sweet! > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
