3 | | * Click File->Preferences... |
| 3 | * Click File->Preferences... |
| 4 | * Select Network page |
| 5 | * Click the "Add host-only network" button |
| 6 | * When the "Hardware Installation" dialog for "!VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adaptor" appears, click the "STOP Installation" button. |
| 7 | * If you then look at the Windows Device Manager, under Network Adaptors, there is an "Unknown device" entry that cannot be uninstalled. |
| 8 | * When Windows is rebooted, it starts the "Found New Hardware Wizard" for the unknown device called "Net". It keeps doing this every time Windows is rebooted. |
5 | | * Select Network page |
6 | | |
7 | | * Click the "Add host-only network" button |
8 | | |
9 | | * When the "Hardware Installation" dialog for "VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adaptor" appears, click the "STOP Installation" button. |
10 | | |
11 | | * If you then look at the Windows Device Manager, under Network Adaptors, there is an "Unknown device" entry that cannot be uninstalled. |
12 | | |
13 | | * When Windows is rebooted, it starts the "Found New Hardware Wizard" for the unknown device called "Net". It keeps doing this every time Windows is rebooted. |
14 | | |
15 | | VirtualBox should really detect that the installation of the network driver was stopped by the user, and clean-up the Unknown device. |
| 10 | !VirtualBox should really detect that the installation of the network driver was stopped by the user, and clean-up the Unknown device. |