VirtualBox reinstalling & updating has left me with Too Many Network Adapters. How Do i remove them?

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Published on 2012-08-23T04:12:20Z Indexed on 2012/09/23 3:40 UTC
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I have too many network adapters. I have had to reinstall, repair VirtualBox a few times, and I have three NICs in my laptop.

I definitely don't need to have 14 bridged networking drivers though, and I cannot uninstall them. I only want to keep the new ones that came with VirtualBox 4.1.20.

When I go into the registry there are tons of places with these adapters. I have searched online up to 10 pages of Google, and VirtualBox forums, and no one has mentioned this problem nor explained how to delete these annoying extra network adapters.

Please offer some assistance or at least tell me how anybody else has dealt with this. I only need 1 host-only network adapter, 1 bridged networking adapter for each of my network cards. Take a look:

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