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Hello guys! Got this problem lately and this one is very annoying. So everytime I am connected to my internet it shows in the notification that I am connected already but I can't, because I have 2 network which wasn't appearing before. Just now, I need to disable and re-enable again so that the Unidentified network will be disappear. So I already googled it for possible solutions but I was hesitant to follow those because I've read many different solutions and confuse which one to follow. That is why I posted it here because I trust members here. Tnx

BTW. I have VMware before which I already uninstalled using a FREE revo uninstaller. So I think its not the VMware that causes this problem.

Hello Mike, I already look on the adapter settings. But there's no spooky thing out there. I have the two legit connection which is normal
I remember that there is a workaround to solve this by using powershell and paste the code. I just forgot what was that ;(

Yes I do DISABLE it and my whole network will disable too. I then RE-Enable it so that I can use the internet again, BTW if that would be the case, how would I remove the Bridge network by VMware?

You mean the network drivers?

This has been a problem since the beginning. I found the powershell script below to fix. You have to run it after every Vbox update. It removes the unidentified network.

# tell windows that VirtualBox Host-Only Network Adapter
# is not a true network interface that connects to a network
# see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff557037(VS.85).aspx
pushd
echo 'Marking VirtualBox Host-Only Network Adapter as a virtual device.'
cd 'HKLM:\system\CurrentControlSet\control\class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}'
ls ???? | where { ($_ | get-itemproperty -name driverdesc).driverdesc `
-eq 'VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter' } |`
new-itemproperty -name '*NdisDeviceType' -PropertyType dword -value 1
echo 'After you reboot the VirtualBox Host-Only Network unidentified public network should be gone.'
popd

This will fix it.

Sarris

That is a pain for sure, did you try Sarris's suggestion above?

@Sarris I tried but still the problem persist ;(