Windows Update might find an updated version of your printer driver. To use it: Select the Start button, then select Settings Update & Security, and select Check for updates. If Windows Update finds an updated driver, it will download and install it, and your printer will automatically use it. Basically what happens when you install the TAP-Windows driver is that you get a new network adapter that shows up in your network control panel. You right click on the TAP adapter and set the TCP/IP properties, i.e. IP address and netmask. Download the latest drivers, firmware, and software for your HP Officejet Pro X476dw Multifunction Printer.This is HP’s official website that will help automatically detect and download the correct drivers free of cost for your HP Computing and Printing products for Windows and Mac operating system. Maybe during Repair/Installaton, it will download the TAP drivers. Else you can download and install this TAP-Windows driver file from openvpn.com. You should be able to create a TAP-Windows adapter by going to Start All Programs TAP-Windows Utilities Add a new TAP-Windows virtual ethernet adapter.
This error usually indicates that somehow the network adapter (TAP) that is required by the OpenVPN application has been disabled on the system.
To resolve this issue, please follow the steps below:
Go to Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center.
Click on ‘Change Adapter Settings‘ and you will see a list of all your configured network
adapters.
Symantec Tap Driver
Find the one that is called ‘Local Area Connection XX or Ethernet XX (XX denoting a number) and that has a description of ‘TAP-Win32 Adapter V9‘.
If it’s disabled, right click on it and choose Enable.
Tap Driver Won T Install Windows 10
If you can’t see a network adapter matching that description then it could have been deleted and so you will need to add it back again.
To do so, please follow through the steps below:
1) Go to Start – All Programs – Tap-Windows (Windows XP, Vista & 7) or press Windows + Q, and look for Add a New Tap (Windows 8, 8.1, & 10)
2) Right click on Add a New Tap Virtual Ethernet Adapter and select Run as Administrator. If you do not have the Run as Administrator option (Windows 8, 8.1 & 10), select Open File Location, right click on Add a New Tap Virtual Ethernet Adapter and select Run as Administrator.
3) Follow through the instructions and you’ll end up with the following screen:
4) Once you’re greeted with the screen above, press any key on your keyboard to continue and give the VPN another try.
Note: If you are still on an older version of our OpenVPN application, you can find the tool in the location below:
Start – All Programs – OpenVPN – Utilities
Installation issues.
We have seen some cases where despite the TAP adapter not being available on the network settings, our customers still fail to install the TAP adapter and end up with a screen similar to the one below:
If you receive the screen above or any other screen similar to the one above stating that the installation of the TAP adapter was unsuccessful, please try the following suggestions:
1) Delete any existing TAP adapter from the system:
Go to Start – All Programs – Tap-Windows (Windows XP, Vista & 7) or press Windows + Q, and look for Delete ALL TAP virtual ethernet adapters (Windows 8, 8.1, & 10)
2) Re-install the OpenVPN application by following the instructions in the link below:
3) If re-installing the OpenVPN application still does not resolve the issue you’re experiencing, please give our L2TP VPN a try by following the instructions in the link below:
If you have any further problems or need further assistance, please email us at [email protected]. We’ll get back to you as soon as possible and try to help.