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This is especially useful if you have migrated virtual machines to a new hosting platform of done P2V or vice versa. You end up with a lot of unused hardware components left over that may have a negative impact on other things

Step 1: Enable the Setting and Launch MMC

Open cmd as administrator

set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
start devmgmt.msc

Click Show hidden devices on the View menu in Device Manager before you can see devices that are not connected to the computer.

Step 2: Cleaning out the Redundant Stuff

Any device that is not a solid colour is no longer present on the current server and can be removed.

Reboot the machine and you are done!

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This will definitely come in handy, a well written quick how to.

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Short, sweet, and right to the point. I like that.