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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Fred,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Glad you’ve got a working environment now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Meanwhile from below you probably meant ‘wpcap.dll’, not ‘winpcap.dll’, AND versions of BOTH packet.dll and wpcap.dll ARE installed in %windir%\SYSWOW64 as part of a normal install.  This is to support 32bit applications which may be running on the x64 system.  Maybe you had such an application running when you tried to do your uninstall (which had these DLLs open and thus caused the uninstall to not completely do its job).  I don’t know what is expected behavior if someone tried to do this…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Good Luck,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>          </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> winpcap-users-bounces@winpcap.org [mailto:winpcap-users-bounces@winpcap.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Fred Marshall<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 28, 2012 6:13 PM<br><b>To:</b> winpcap-users@winpcap.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Winpcap-users] Windows 7 Pro x64 RE Install Fails<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>Problem solved.<br>Recall that this is a system that had no remnants of WinPcap on it as nearly as I was humanly capable of finding and removing things.  Same process after each install attempt.<br>WinPcap was complaining at install that it was already installed .. but it "wasn't".<br>Program uninstalls were tried but there was nothing to uninstall.  Windows AND Revo.<br>The registry was cleared out.<br>The Program Files were cleared out.<br>Envisioning having to reinstall Windows, I took a flyer and ran ComboFix on the system.<br><br>It quarantined:<br>Packet.dll<br>winpcap.dll<br>these files were both in <br><br>c:\windows\SysWOW64 .... imagine that!<br><br>That's not where they usually show up with a normal install.  And, of course, why they didn't show up in a Search remains a mystery as well.<br><br>Anyway, after this WinPcap installed just fine.<br>A lesson learned.<br>Thanks all for your forbearance!<br><br>Fred<br><br><br>On 1/12/2012 9:27 PM, Fred Marshall wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Mark,<br><br>Well, I haven't really changed the apps since I had WinPCAP working before on this system.  I think the nfp issue deserves some focus.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Fred<br></span><br>On 1/9/2012 1:11 PM, Mark Pizzolato - WinPCap-Users wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Fred,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hmmm… You say “huge task to configure it with app’s, etc.”  suggests to me that one of those steps is involved in the issues you are having with WinPcap.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Feel free to keep banging your head against this issue without making much real progress or you can try to start from a scratch system with a working WinPcap environment and add each of the “apps” one at a time to determine the one which negatively interacts….</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Good Luck.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>          </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mark</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> <a href="mailto:winpcap-users-bounces@winpcap.org">winpcap-users-bounces@winpcap.org</a> [<a href="mailto:winpcap-users-bounces@winpcap.org">mailto:winpcap-users-bounces@winpcap.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Fred Marshall<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 09, 2012 1:05 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:winpcap-users@winpcap.org">winpcap-users@winpcap.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Winpcap-users] Windows 7 Pro x64 RE Install Fails</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New , serif","serif"'>Mark,<br><br>Well, this is a fairly new system and it's set up as the "tool workstation" for network administrator tasks.  <br>It's a huge task to configure it with app's, etc.<br>Yet, nothing very strange about it.<br>I won't say that the system hasn't had its quirks but I have no evidence to suggest one thing or another.</span><br><br>On 1/8/2012 5:00 PM, Mark Pizzolato - WinPCap-Users wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m not sure what you are trying to determine.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:24.75pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ø<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>  </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sc qc npf</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:24.75pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Returns the configuration for the npf service</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:24.75pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ø<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>  </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Net start npf</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:24.75pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Starts the npf service.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Clearly these are NOT the same thing.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:24.75pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ø<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>  </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sc start npf</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:24.75pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>would be the same as “net start npf”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:24.75pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Something is clearly tangled up on the system which doesn’t work.  Winpcap works for me (and MANY other folks) on MANY Win7 x64 systems without any problem.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Even though you’ve had control of the affected system since it shipped, something that happened to the system while you’ve had control of it has created this tangle.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I hate to suggest restoring the system to the condition it shipped in would likely make things work, but that may be what you need to do….</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Good Luck.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> <a href="mailto:winpcap-users-bounces@winpcap.org">winpcap-users-bounces@winpcap.org</a> [<a href="mailto:winpcap-users-bounces@winpcap.org">mailto:winpcap-users-bounces@winpcap.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Fred Marshall<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 08, 2012 4:31 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:winpcap-users@winpcap.org">winpcap-users@winpcap.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Winpcap-users] Windows 7 Pro x64 RE Install Fails</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New , serif","serif"'>I've had control of this system since it was shipped .. basically.  <br>I have another Window 7 64 system that works fine - uses the same antivirus too.<br><br>Today I figured out that the npf.sys driver must be a problem.<br><br>On the troubled system, I ran<br>sc qc npf<br>and get a good report.<br>So it seems the file is "there".....<br><br>If I run:<br>sc config npf start= auto<br>there is no complaint; yet, it doesn't seem to do anything in a reboot.<br><br>If I run <br>net start npf<br>I get Syhstem error 2 has occurred<br>The system cannot find the file specified. !!!!!!<br><br>So, it appears there is a difference between<br>sc qc npf<br>and<br>net start npf<br><br>I've also looked at the ... well I can't find the full steps but it's like in the not plugnplay, hidden, etc.<br>and it's not showing there.......<br><br>Everything has been run as Administrator, etc.<br><br></span>Fred<br>On 1/5/2012 4:45 PM, "Fish" (David B. Trout) wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><pre>Fred Marshall wrote:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>This problem persists and I've not found a solution.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Is there any way to install WinPcap on Windows 7 x64???<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>I've installed it many times on my Windows 7 x64 system without any problem<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>whatsoever. So have many others. There is obviously something unique about<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>your particular system that you need to figure out.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Did you perchance change the permissions of your system drive (the Program<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Files directory)? Or change the permissions of your Registry? Did you maybe<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>disable some critical Windows service or something? Have you tried<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>COMPLETELY uninstalling your anti-virus? (just as a test)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>You (or someone else) obviously changed something on your system to prevent<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>the installation of WinPCap from succeeding, and you need to figure out what<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>that something was.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Winpcap-users mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Winpcap-users@winpcap.org">Winpcap-users@winpcap.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://www.winpcap.org/mailman/listinfo/winpcap-users">https://www.winpcap.org/mailman/listinfo/winpcap-users</a><o:p></o:p></pre></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>______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