Hi,

Good to hear that it is working now! Possibly one of the bits we've
flipped in tap-windows6 since the previous release caused this
misbehavior (for you). So far nobody else has reported this problem.

Samuli

Il 04/11/19 00:04, Ton van Vliet ha scritto:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> Thanks for the additional tips.
> 
> I already replied to Samuli yesterday, but only now noticed that I did not 
> reply to the list.
> 
> I did play around with pnputil (Samuli is using it in his script as well), 
> but was not able to remove all drivers with it: some were 'in use', while 
> others were listed but somehow 'invalid'.
> 
> Only after I uninstalled tap-windows6, I was able to remove the 'in use' 
> ones. The other ones were leftover oem<x>.inf files from earlier failing 
> installs.
> 
> I had to re-instantiate all TAP-devices after this, but all is fine now.
> 
> Normally I would prefer to troubleshoot, however, since I apparently am the 
> only one with the problem, I took Samuli's shortcut and uninstalled 
> tap-windows6
> 
> Best regards,
> Ton
> 
> On 03-11-19 17:18, Simon Rozman wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ton,
>>
>> You can also use pnputil.exe (in an elevated command prompt) to check 
>> version, uninstall, and/or install TAP driver manually. The pnputil is a 
>> stock command line utility for driver management on all Windows.
>>
>> I advise you use pnputil to list all your installed TAP-Windows6 drivers - 
>> yes, there may be more than one version installed.  Carefully uninstall all 
>> TAP-Windows6 drivers. "Carefully" in a sense that you pay extra attention to 
>> delete oem<nn>.inf entries corresponding to the TAP-Windows6, and not your 
>> graphics card or disk controller.  Note that network interface settings are 
>> stored elsewhere in registry and uninstalling the driver will not delete 
>> them. Your TAP interfaces will just disappear for a while. You already 
>> noticed that phenomena before.
>>
>> Next, install the latest driver - you can use the official installer. Or - 
>> if you already have it installed - find a copy of the driver in C:\Program 
>> Files\TAP-Windows6\driver (your path may vary) and use pnputil to install 
>> the driver. Or - right click on the .inf file and select Install. Your TAP 
>> interfaces should reappear.
>>
>> Also, since you're troubleshooting, I'd strongly advise you to reboot in 
>> between.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Simon
> 
> 
> 
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