How to remove all the vEthernet (Default Switch) once and for all?

As in the screenshot above, I don't know why the vEthernet (Default Switch) on my Windows 10 laptop keeps reproducing itself and auto connecting to it everytime I shut down and switch on the laptop.

Worst is if I switch Wi-Fi networks, it auto connects to the vEthernet (Default Switch) even when i have pre-disabled it before

Please help me find out the root cause of this problem? E.g. :

Why this strange occurrence keeps happening (I suspect it is because I installed Docker?)
Why I can't seem to delete the vEthernet (Default Switch) from Network Connections
Why does it keep auto connecting to vEthernet (Default Switch) and how to permanently disable it?

compski

Posted 2018-01-03T02:50:18.533

Reputation: 427

Answers

I just found out that I could easily remove all the vEthernet switches by simply going to:

"Control Panel" > "Programs" > "Programs and Features" > "Turn Windows features on or off" on your Windows 10 machine Find the name of the feature/s you would like to disable--in this case, "Containers" and (optionally) "Hyper-V"

Which is stated in this article https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/manage-docker/configure-docker-daemon

compski

Posted 2018-01-03T02:50:18.533

Reputation: 427

6Its not possible do use Docker then anymore, i assume? – BNT – 2018-09-18T08:40:51.320

@BNT Do ask that in another question - I'd like to read the answer to that =p – compski – 2018-12-28T06:31:37.320

For me this didn't delete the existing vEthernet's. I had to then go into device manager and uninstall them. And yes... this will disable the ability to use Docker. It requires HyperV on Windows. Unless you want to get creative.

– GollyJer – 2019-06-06T22:17:40.250

3Considering I actively use Hyper V to manage some VMs. This answer is not helpful. – Colm – 2019-06-25T15:49:30.947

After removed Hyper-V, my laptop crashed and cannot load Windows successfully. Need to use System Recovery. – Jerry Chong – 2019-08-28T01:33:38.893

Just go to device manager, network adapters, right click and uninstall

Andre L.A.C Bittencourt

Posted 2018-01-03T02:50:18.533

Reputation: 39

4The question asks how to remove the devices and prevent them repeatedly reappearing. Can you explain how your answer does that? – Blackwood – 2018-08-23T22:38:00.310

I was getting too fancy, going to the registry and such. This answer actually helped me even though I know it's not a 100% answer for the OP. – Craig Silver – 2018-11-18T01:23:01.650

I have 160 of these devices, and I don't feel like uninstalling them all by hand.

I've used the; https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Device-Management-7fad2388 to disable them like so;

get-device | Where-Object -Property Name -Like hyper-v* | disable-device

But that's only a disable;

(Get-WmiObject Win32_Networkadapter | Where-Object -Property Name -Like hyper-v*).delete()

This gets an error message...

Lectere

Posted 2018-01-03T02:50:18.533

Reputation: 101

I used the tool Device Remover to successfully remove all my 150+ vEthernet devices quickly.

Other than that, only the suggestion to remove each device manually worked. However, that takes a lot of time for 150+ devices. Fortunately I found the above tool.

Regarding the re-creation of new devices on reboot I have no solution other than disabling/removing Hyper-V.

mplattner

Posted 2018-01-03T02:50:18.533

Reputation: 1

In my case removing - uninstalling the disabled VEthernet connections in device manager crashed the network on reboot. The only way I've found is to remove then re-install HyperV which deletes the old ones but still doesn't stop W10 recreating on reboot. Possible alternative is Win8.1 that doesn't do this :-)

Jon Root

Posted 2018-01-03T02:50:18.533

Reputation: 1