Windows 10 - No Tap Adapters found
1.2 What is the TAP? The TAP is a Virtual Ethernet network device. TAP driver was designed as low level kernel support for Ethernet tunneling. It provides to userland application two interfaces: - /dev/tapX - character device; - tapX - virtual Ethernet interface. Userland application can write Ethernet frame to /dev/tapX. How to Remove Windows Adapter V9? Go to Program Files. Find Tap-Windows. Double-click exe and follow the on-screen instructions until you finally remove the driver. If you stop here, the Tap Windows driver will reappear. TAP-Windows Adapter V9 is a network driver that allows VPN to connect to its servers. The default installation location is C:/Program Files/Tap-Windows, and it appears in Device Manager under Network Adapters category. Unfortunately, some users reported that they have connection problems when TAP Windows Adapter V9 is enabled, and even if the device is disabled, it does enable itself after the reboot of the computer.
Last updated by Shayne M on February 25, 2019 21:25
The TAP is a Virtual Ethernet network device. TAP driver was designed as low level kernel support for Ethernet tunneling. It provides to userland application two interfaces: - /dev/tapX - character device; - tapX - virtual Ethernet interface. Userland application can write Ethernet frame to /dev/tapX. Feb 10, 2017 Remove all installed tap-windows drivers. Note that many of these are not called tap-windows at all Remove tap-windows drivers from the driver store. Remove-Tapwindows.ps1 script in tap-windows-scripts repository can delete all standard tap-windows drivers from the driverstore Reboot Try installing OpenVPN using the official installer.
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Some builds of Windows 10 has broken OpenVPN TAP Adapter
No rebooting required:
- add string value/data ComponentId/tap0901 (REG_SZ) with regedit value name=ComponentIdvalue data=tap0901
to key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlClass{4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}[0001]
where [0001] stands for the instance on your system in which you find the REG_SZ string with
value name=ProductName
value data=TAP-Windows Adapter V9 - disable and enable TAP-Windows Adapter V9 in device manager>network adapters to reinitialize the driver with the newly added ComponentId
Users with Kaspersky Internet Security install might still have issues after following this tutorial.
In order to resolve - You will need to remove Kaspersky, reinstall the VPN / Tap drivers then install Kaspersky back.
1) completely removed the Kaspersky (2015/2016) with program http://media.kaspersky.com/utilities/ConsumerUtilities/kavremvr.exe ;
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2) Install the latest version of VPN application and or OpenVPN / Tun-TAP drives NDIS (6)
3) Install Kaspersky (http://www.kaspersky.com/product-updates);
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Before you begin
Driver updates for Windows 10, along with many devices, such as network adapters, monitors, printers, and video cards, are automatically downloaded and installed through Windows Update. You probably already have the most recent drivers, but if you'd like to manually update or reinstall a driver, here's how:
Update the device driver
- In the search box on the taskbar, enter device manager, then select Device Manager.
- Select a category to see names of devices, then right-click (or press and hold) the one you’d like to update.
- Select Search automatically for updated driver software.
- Select Update Driver.
- If Windows doesn't find a new driver, you can try looking for one on the device manufacturer's website and follow their instructions.
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Reinstall the device driver
- In the search box on the taskbar, enter device manager, then select Device Manager.
- Right-click (or press and hold) the name of the device, and select Uninstall.
- Restart your PC.
- Windows will attempt to reinstall the driver.
More help
If you can't see the desktop and instead see a blue, black, or blank screen, see Troubleshoot blue screen errors or Troubleshoot black or blank screen errors.