Windows vista has a peculiar issue which surfaces only after you change hardware. It retains information about older hardware even when it does not exist. This could result in a problem in giving a name to your network connection, since it detects an old connection with the same name, but you won’t see anything on the network connections window. To fix this, follow the steps below:

  1. Launch “Command Prompt” with Administrator rights. To launch this, click on “Start” –> “All Programs“–> ”Accessories” and right click on “Command Prompt”. On the pop up menu, click on “Run as Administrator”
  2. On the command prompt window, type “SET DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1“, without the quotes
  3. It will take you back to the prompt
  4. Now type “START DEVMGMT.MSC“. This will launch a familiar “Device Manager” screen.
  5. On Device Manager window, click on “View” and select “View hidden devices“

Now look for network adaptors that you don’t have on your computer and remove them from the list.

Once you delete the required entries and close out of all the windows, you should be able to rename the network connections in Microsoft Windows Vista.

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