From: John Cuccia 

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:20:17 +0000, Ad
 wrote:

>Geo. wrote:
>> and you think the registry is nasty?
>>
>Yup.
>
>I had a devil of a time on windows a while back with basically the same
>thing i.e. it would not let me (re)create an eth0 i.e. it kept creating
>"Local Area Connection 2", 3, 4 etc & no way to get back
to just "Local
>Area Connection".
>
>I can't remember what the fix was but it involved even more digging &
>tweaking & what have you.

The fix is to right-click on "Local Area Connection 2" and select
"Rename".

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