After I installed Wireshark on Windows, my Ethernet shows up as an "unidentified network"
I downloaded wireshark a little while ago and after I did that, my ethernet was an "unidentified network" and there was no traffic. The only way to get access to the internet was to restart my computer, and that's worked consistently. It's become really annoying to continually do. Sleep mode has the same problem as well. Windows is up to date. Does this possibly have something to do with drivers? How do I fix it?
I created an account just to answer this. To stop the "unidentified network" problem without uninstalling wireshark you need to go to ethernet properties and unselect Npcap Packet Driver and Npcap Packet Driver (Wi-Fi). It's worth noting that when you do this wireshark won't be able to read your ethernet connection; however, once you re-select the Npcap Packet Driver and Npcap Packet Driver (Wi-Fi) boxes it should work and not cause the "unidentified network" problem unless you restart or shutdown your computer with the boxes still selected (make sure to unselect them when restarting or shutting down).