Hopefully, if someone else is experiencing this same pain with their previously working WireShark, these steps will help. This may work with other versions of Windows (Windows 10, for example) but I have not personally tried it out. The install completed successfully and I was able to run WireShark and capture packets again. Then I downloaded the latest version of WireShark (version 2.2.2). When I installed WireShark, I made sure NOT to select the installation of WinPcap 4.1.3. First, I uninstalled WireShark (and WinPcap 4.1.3, the latest at the time of this writing) and rebooted. Feel free to modify these steps if you wish. I will list exactly what I did but there may be steps that are unnecessary for you. Enough about the failures, here’s to success! I tried running WireShark in compatibility modes for previous version of Windows – to no avail. I then tried going ever further back into the archives of old versions of WireShark. My first attempts involved uninstalling and reinstalling, with reboots before and after. Let me share what I did to restore functionality and my sanity. Description Wireshark is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. When I checked Task Manager, a process called dumpcap.exe was not responding and like in the movies, hard to kill. To install Wireshark, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell: > This package was approved as a trusted package on. I recently upgraded my instructor workstation and WireShark stopped working.

you can use -P command line option to adjust the personal folders, see '.I am a long time user of WireShark and I frequently use it for demonstrations in my networking classes. The U3 system will set some special U3 environment variables. 'For an U3 package, you'll need an U3 stick to work properly. (I find it hard to believe that the PortableApps platform is necessary.)

You will then get a new menu item on the PortableApps menu that will allow you to run Wireshark from your USB stick.'

'You need to have installed the PortableApps framework (Base, Standard or Lite) first.When you install WiresharkPortable on your stick from the PortableApps menu ('Options/Install New App') the appropriate Wireshark files will be installed on your stick. It was hard for me to find any information about WiresharkPortable, but I finally found a few pages about it.

Install wireshark portable