Error opening adapter: The system cannot find the path specified. (3) [closed]

I installed wireshark 32bit version on a machine and whenever i run it(as administrator) and try to click on the only connection listed i get the following error:

The capture session could not be initiated on interface '\Some\Path' (Error opening adapter: The system cannot find the path specified. (3)).

Please check to make sure you have suficient permissions, and that you have the proper interface or pipe specified

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and the same issue occurs. What should I do? Note that '\Some\Path' is not the real path

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asked 2019-09-23 15:49:05 +0000
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Closed for the following reason "the question is answered, right answer was accepted" by minionmaster 2019-10-07 08:56:53 +0000

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It helps if you include the information from "Help->About Wireshark" or "wireshark -v".

Chuckc's avatar Chuckc (2019-09-23 16:56:00 +0000) edit
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What is the connection listed?

What is the path that appears in the error message? (Not an example, the actual path.)

What is - as bubbasnmp says - the version information for Wireshark? This is an error from WinPcap/Npcap, so we need to know what version of WinPcap or Npcap is being used.

Guy Harris's avatar Guy Harris (2019-09-23 18:58:18 +0000) edit
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The connection listed on the "home" screen is: Adapter for loopback traffc capture

As for the path: 'Device\NPF_Loopback'

And at last, the version of WinPcap/NPcap is Npcap version 0.9983, WinPcap SDK (WpdPack) 4.1.2

minionmaster's avatar minionmaster (2019-09-24 09:03:12 +0000) edit
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Info from Help -> About

Version 3.0.5 (v3.0.5-0-g752a55954770) 

Compiled (32-bit) with Qt 5.12.5, with WinPcap SDK (WpdPack) 4.1.2, with GLib 2.52.2, with zlib 1.2.11, with SMI 0.4.8, with c-ares 1.14.0, with Lua 5.2.4, with GnuTLS 3.6.3 and PKCS #11 support, with Gcrypt 1.8.3, with MIT Kerberos, with MaxMind DB resolver, with nghttp2 1.39.2, with LZ4, with Snappy, with libxml2 2.9.9, with QtMultimedia, with AirPcap, with SBC, with SpanDSP, with bcg729. 

Running on 32-bit Windows 8, build 9200, with Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N2600 @ 1.60GHz, with 2035 MB of physical memory, with locale English_United Kingdom.1252, with Npcap version 0.9983, based on libpcap version 1.9.1-PRE-GIT, with GnuTLS 3.6.3, with Gcrypt 1.8.3, without AirPcap, binary plugins supported ...
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minionmaster's avatar minionmaster (2019-09-24 09:06:34 +0000) edit
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npcap has info here on running a diagnostic report to check the interfaces:

   https://nmap.org/npcap/guide/npcap-users-guide.html

"Npcap has provided a diagnostic utility called DiagReport"

Chuckc's avatar Chuckc (2019-09-25 03:51:09 +0000) edit
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