Some third party VPN and network security software rely on the built-in drivers as well, and may also be affected by their removal.

If you opt to remove the drivers outright, you may have to re-install or repair an existing Windows installation should you need this functionality currently or later on. If you don’t do this things won’t be fixed.A warning: built-in VPN and IPSEC functionality will cease to function correctly without the WAN Miniport being enabled. After you’ve done that for every one of the WAN Miniports listed, reboot the machine.After Device Manager refreshes, right click the Microsoft KM-Test Loopback Adapter and click “Uninstall”.Ignore the “blah blah might be incompatbile” warning and click OK.Under Network Adapter choose “Microsoft KM-Test Loopback Adapter” (technically from what I understand you can pick anything that you can uninstall, but this one worked consistently for me).Uncheck the “Show compatible hardware” box.Click “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer”.Click “Browse my computer for driver software”.Right-click every one of the WAN Miniport devices (I even did the ones that didn’t have a yellow exclamation point next to them) and do the following:.Try to connect to a VPN that will cause things to error out (the WAN Miniports didn’t even show up in the network adapter list for me until I did this).I found varying reports of how to fix the problem but here’s what worked for me.

I figured it might be a driver issue so I opened up Device Manager and sure enough, under the network adapters section there were yellow exclamation marks next to every one of the WAN Miniports that show up after you try to connect to a VPN. When I tried to connect from the networking charm (I think that’s what they call the bar on the right-hand side of the screen) it would hang for a while but never connect, and after that happened when I clicked on the networking icon on the lower right the charm bar wouldn’t even come back. After a recent Windows update I could no longer connect to one of my VPNs using the native Windows VPN connectivity (i.e.

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