XP Home: Registry tidy up for WLAN card
Background:
Eee PC netbook 1000H
XP Home SP3
Atheros 5008 WLAN card
After upgrading the Atheros WLAN driver to gain some new functionality, the netbook encountered a bug whenever it was resumed from hibernate. I successfully fixed it, but to do so was a process of logical trial and error that required rollback and reinstall of the Atheros driver a number of times.
I then noticed that the Atheros' Device Name in Network Connections is now suffixed with #2 and (before I renamed the connection) the "WLAN successfully connected" balloon message was suffixed with #9.
I know that the latter is because I have installed and re-installed the drivers nine times and guess that the former will be because something I did during debugging caused XP to think that the original Atheros card is no longer in use and has been replaced by another.
Question:
The netbook works perfectly and is as sprightly to boot and to run as it was when new, but other than that I have some unwanted clutter in the registry is there anything I can do (the purist in me) or should do (the preventative maintainer in me) to tidy up?
TVM
Last edited by The late XV105; 1st August 2009 at 15:32.
Reason: Typo correction