Windows 11 upgrade breaks npcap 1.60
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Description
If you install npcap 1.60 on Windows 10 then upgrade to Windows 11, npcap breaks, you can see this being evidenced in the XLink Network Diag tool upon loading the library https://cdn.teamxlink.co.uk/crunchbite/XLink_diag_interface_list_v0.1.exe, and in XLink Kai, also other projects that can use npcap as they can't load the library.
If you fully uninstall npcap 1.60 and reinstall it on Windows 11, it will work, however on the 10 to 11 upgrade it seems to still keep the driver loaded, and Windows doesn't uninstall it or anything.
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Research direction
Reproduce the reported path by installing npcap 1.60 on Windows 10, upgrading to Windows 11, and loading it from the XLink Network Diag tool or XLink Kai. Inspect the npcap library and driver-loading behavior; done means applications can load npcap after the upgrade without uninstalling and reinstalling it.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- networking, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100