TAP Driver on Win 8.1 Install Fail [solution]

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TAP Driver on Win 8.1 Install Fail [solution]

Post by electraice » Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:37 pm

Hi to all!
If you have error msg during TAP-driver installation on win 8.1 (after you've instal OpenVPN 2.3.5 once or meni times may be).
Don't cry and do this:
1. go to Control panel --> Device Manager --> View --> Show hidden devices
2. Delete "Unknown device" in Network adapters (if you have it) or Microsoft ISATAP Devices
3. Run "cmd" with administrative rights, cd to C:\Program Files\TAP-Windows\bin
4. Run addtap.bat - it will install TAP driver with success.

Good luck

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