How to Remove old hardware after performing P2V in Windows environment

When performing P2V action on a Windows machines, the virtual machine still holds a lot of hardware components of physical machine. These components might be hidden, but still they are there and drivers are loaded for them. They might comsume resources or create issues on your virtual machine.

Which is generally not a good thing. So, how to detect those unused hardware components and drivers. All you need to do is to open the command prompt:

Enter set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

Then, open the device manager by entering the command of:

devmgmt.msc

Finally, Select View ----> Show hidden devices

You should delete all the grayed-out hardware which is not in use anymore.

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