Windows 10 - Cant view status or properties of network connetions

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Yabanize

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#171201 9-Apr-2015 18:02

On windows 10, I went to check what speed the ethernet connection was by the usual right clicking on the connection and clicking status, when i did this nothing happened.

When I right click it and press properties it says an unexpected error occurred

Has anyone else experienced this?

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#1279906 9-Apr-2015 18:27

Go into Device Manager and Uninstall the network card (making sure not to tell it to delete the drivers). Then click 'Scan for hardware changes' and the card shop pop back in and all should be well.

Yabanize

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#1279912 9-Apr-2015 18:30

Brumfondl: Go into Device Manager and Uninstall the network card (making sure not to tell it to delete the drivers). Then click 'Scan for hardware changes' and the card shop pop back in and all should be well.

It happens for both wifi and ethernet but ill give it a go :)

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#1279920 9-Apr-2015 18:42

Yabanize:
Brumfondl: Go into Device Manager and Uninstall the network card (making sure not to tell it to delete the drivers). Then click 'Scan for hardware changes' and the card shop pop back in and all should be well.

It happens for both wifi and ethernet but ill give it a go :)

Solution should work for both :) Just 'uninstall' all the devices that under Network adapters :)

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#1279926 9-Apr-2015 18:49

Brumfondl:
Yabanize:
Brumfondl: Go into Device Manager and Uninstall the network card (making sure not to tell it to delete the drivers). Then click 'Scan for hardware changes' and the card shop pop back in and all should be well.

It happens for both wifi and ethernet but ill give it a go :)

Solution should work for both :) Just 'uninstall' all the devices that under Network adapters :)

I have this - uninstalled drivers and reinstalled and good to go.

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#1279932 9-Apr-2015 18:58

I've found on two PCs after going to Win 10 build 10049 that I can't change from DHCP to a fixed IP address on the NIC . Greyed out infact all the network netting are greyed out but they all work. One of these was a new install..

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#1279939 9-Apr-2015 19:10

Possibly try my solution and see what happens.

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#1280163 10-Apr-2015 08:29

Brumfondl: Possibly try my solution and see what happens.

Didn't help. Still can't get into the properties to change the IP address.. I had the OP's problem when I upgraded to 10041 and the deleting of the card fixed it but not being able to change the IP address is a new problem in 10049

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#1280170 10-Apr-2015 08:36

Ok found the answer in another forum,

"This is a known issue in 10049. The button is greyed out, and there's no easy way to get it back. This is NOT how the product will ship; we'll bring the button back as soon as possible.

If you need to set static IP address on build 10049, you can use the New-NetIPAddress cmdlet, or the netsh utility.

I'm sorry for the trouble this causes you. We don't mess with things without a good reason. In this case, we re-worked some plumbing so that installing network drivers is more reliable, and can be done offline into a VHD. Unfortunately that means we had to temporarily disable the IPv4 and IPv6 properties GUIs, since they weren't ready to work in the new engine yet."

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#1280493 10-Apr-2015 14:09

I use the netsh utility to switch between unotelly DNS and fetching dns from the DHCP server. its worth learning some commands if you mess around a lot. the new powershell commands are even better with autocomplete.

e.g. configure NIC named "Wi-Fi" to use unotelly DNS

netsh interface ip set dns "Wi-Fi" static 103.6.212.24

e.g. reset NIC to use DNS procided by DHCP:

netsh interface ip set dns "Wi-Fi" dhcp

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