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Network misconfiguration - wrong connection state and lots of adapters
Hello there.
I'm having a problem with a Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit install that is almost vanilla, I've only installed the drivers, a browser and some minimal things.
The machine connects via pppoe to the internet, and it never really worked properly, the first problem is Windows doesn't detect when it's connected to the internet, sometimes I'm browsing the web and the 'dial up' dialog will pop up, and also, the yellow mark on the tray icon is always there.
Another problem I'm having is that every time I connect to the internet Windows create a new "isatap tunnel adapter", so at the moment they're almost 400 what's really annoying when you run ipconfig and I suspect it's not only related but a symptom of a bad configuration.
I wasn't really caring for the problems since I don't use the machine often and until now it was only an annoyance that was very rare to happen, but I need to install VirtuaBox in that machine now and I think the misconfiguration is somehow affecting that, because it will fail to install informing that it was not able to stop the iphlpsvc service, which is related to networking, so I think that somehow is linked to the whole network configuration problem.
I would like to solve these issues, specially the internet connection detection problem (so Windows knows when I'm connected) and most importantly the VirtualBox problem. I've tried to skip that message (by clicking retry twice) and also manually disabling the service, but when I do that the network won't work in VirtualBox. I've installed VirtualBox on other machines and I never saw such an error, and some machines are very similar (in hardware specs) to the one that's having the problems, the only difference is the pppoe connection; I configured it with the Windows wizard though and no error whatsoever popped up, I just entered the username and password and it was working, but since these problems are happening, perhaps something went wrong and I ended up with a bad configuration.
Perhaps there's a way to reset all the networking configuration, I've been told to run 'net int ip reset' but I didn't try that yet since I don't have access to the machine at the moment.
Any helps is appreciated, however, I would like to avoid having to reinstall the whole system.
Thank you in advance.