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#Network driver for wan miniport sstp how to#
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DO NOT run all of them or run the command twice, as that will create second version of the existing miniport, which can cause problems again.

Go to command prompt, go to the directory where you extracted devcon.exeįor each miniport that you have previously uninstalled, execute the command outlined below.

#Network driver for wan miniport sstp iso#

(It involved getting an ISO image of a developer CD and extracting the devcon.exe file out of there.)

#Network driver for wan miniport sstp how to#

The easiest way to do this is to follow the steps outlined in “ How to Obtain the Current Version of Device Console Utility (DevCon.exe)” on Microsoft’s TechNet wiki. Old (XP/2000) versions don’t work well wither. 32-bit version won’t work on 64-bit systems. inf files (which in lot of cases are protected and not easily editable), we’ll do it the long way…

#Network driver for wan miniport sstp drivers#

You’ll need to do a few extra steps, as the miniport drivers aren’t meant to be installed by users and are not visible.

Otherwise there is a change things will go bad again. Once done removing the bad miniports, reboot.

Back in the device manager, delete the device that just turned into the “MAC Bridge Miniport” device.

(It can be any device the user is allowed to uninstall.) From the “Manufacturer” list, choose “Microsoft”, and from the “Network Adapter” list, choose “MAC Bridge Miniport”.

In the next window, choose “Let me pick driver from a list”.

Right click on the non-working miniport, choose “Update Driver”.

So, to remove each non-working miniport, do the following: (If you did this already, let’s hope your system has restore points – you can restore to previous snapshot and try doing it the non-registry way outlined there.) When doing this, take a note of the miniports that you are removing, you’ll need to know this later when reinstalling. There are number of other registry keys that depend on the miniports being present, and it is super easy to completely break the network stack, to a point where the base network card driver won’t work.

Having read number of forum posts, some KBs, and a bit of intuition and guessing, I’ve pieced together the following guide to uninstall and re-install the network miniports: Uninstall the non-working miniports There are a lot of outdated posts that no longer work in Windows 7 (and probably Vista), and some that are just plain wrong. Trying to avoid OS reinstall, I hunted around for a while and could not find a decent guide to fixing the problem. Miniports can’t be deleted/uninstalled, and their drivers are hidden from the user, so even re-installing them isn’t easy. (The miniports are typically hidden too, so if they aren’t broken, they won’t show up at all.) To me, this problem manifested when I was creating a VPN, and despite choosing connection over network, the connection would try to dial the modem.Īll it takes to fix them is uninstalling and re-installing the non-working miniport, but unfortunately there is no easy way to do it. Usually you can tell a miniport is not working when it has an exclamation sign icon next to it in the device manager. These can sometimes “break” and cause VPN and possibly other network level services to not work properly. Windows network stack uses “miniports” to handle different layers of the network.