new WAN

I just checked in my device manager and found and new device installed that I didn't install. It's a WAN miniport (Network Monitor) #2, which has the yellow triangle and exclamation point in it. Windows can't laod drivers required for this device. (code31)

I don't have any wireless hardware on my PC. This was installed on 5/15 and I believe it came with the last the 8 auto updates (18 of them I think) because the dates match. It wont update through device manager, it wont uninstall.

Any body else with this problem...generally I'm pretty good a tracking stuff like this down...not this time.

Wow...nobody....anybody?

See if you can find it under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root

If it is there, delete it and see if it comes back after reboot

Thanks for the reply SIW2...found it and it wont allow me to delete it. "ERROR" can not delete root: Error while deleting key.

Inside that key there is a bunch of other stuff, about 25 others. There are 3 that relate to the miniport...MS_PPPOEMINIPORT, MS_PPTPMINIPORT, MS_SSTPMINIPORT. Have a look....