I had installed the free vmplayer, then i uninstalled it. However, in the device manager, there are several instances of something called "Wan Miniport blah". I am not sure if vmplayer was responsible ...

Ok, please forgive the ignorant and help me out if you know. <P>What is a "WAN Miniport (Network Monitor)"? It shows up with an exclamation point in device manager. It's property sheet says, "This ...