Turning off Winpcap or Ncap at Startup

asked 2019-03-11 16:08:39 +0000

astroviewer gravatar image

I have been having issues ever since my PC at work was upgraded to Windows 10 with Wireshark. It seems to hang at initialization time when it looks for the NIC cards. I normally don't use Wireshark to trace my interfaces on my PC so I really don't need that piece of the software enabled.

Is there some kind of parameter or setting in Wireshark to disable using Winpcap or NCAP at startup which is now available in Wireshark 3.0 ?

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Do you mean your PC hangs at OS initialization or Wireshark?

If you don't need to capture, then you can uninstall WinPcap and Npcap, and Wireshark will be quite happy (except for capturing).

grahamb gravatar imagegrahamb ( 2019-03-11 16:27:19 +0000 )edit

There is also a preference whether to enumerate interfaces or extcap at startup.

Anders gravatar imageAnders ( 2019-03-11 19:31:27 +0000 )edit

There is also a preference whether to enumerate interfaces or extcap at startup.

It's in "Capture" under Edit > Preferences; try checking "Disable external capture interfaces", and see if that, by itself, speeds up the startup process.

Guy Harris gravatar imageGuy Harris ( 2019-03-11 21:41:41 +0000 )edit
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