[Windows 8 General] Awesome Gauge:
Hello i am 19 years old so i don't exactly have lots of experience with all this. (iv gone down the route of programming in c++. only started looking into Batch seriously for the last few weeks) I am having a problem which i could use help with. Lately i have been using the Microsoft virtual network adapter (im sure heard of it!)

I wrote a small batch file for the purpose of starting the network. (ill copy and paste it in at the bottom) now this program worked perfectly for about a month but now i cant get a device to connect to the network as nothing can obtain an ip address.

What i did to troubleshoot..

1. I changed the ip settings from dhcp to static.

this allowed me to connect to the network but i couldn't access the internet.

2. I checked the properties of the network from the control panel and it

shows that my network is sending packets but is not receiving any. I tried

running windows troubleshooting on the network and it tells me that the

network does not have a valid ip configuration. even though it is set

dhcp.

3. I tried typing the following into cmd "netsh interface ip reset"

in return i get;

"C:\Windows\system32>netsh interface ip reset

Resetting Global, OK!

Resetting Interface, OK!

Resetting Unicast Address, OK!

Resetting Neighbor, OK!

Resetting Path, OK!

Resetting Route, OK!

Resetting , failed.

Access is denied.

Resetting , OK!

Restart the computer to complete this action."

why does it say resetting failed followed by access denied?

i think this is the cause of "failed to obtain ip address problem but why then does it not allow internet connectivity through the static ip settings? is there something i have missed or is something corrupt maybe?

I also tried going to device manager and uninstalling the network adapter from their then allowing windows to find it and re-install the driver.

Thank you for having the patients to read this far. As i said at the beginning i would copy paste my program here so you can see exactly what im trying to do here.

Thanks again.

[MENTION=279333]ECHO[/MENTION] off

color a

:beginning

echo To Create a Hotspot with the name "hotspot" and

echo a password of "12345678" just press ENTER to the first two

echo options

echo ............................................................................... ################################################################################

set /p ssid=Enter name for your network: || set ssid=hotspot

set /p key=Enter password for network(must be 8 characters or longer!): || set key=12345678

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=%ssid% key=%key%

netsh wlan start hosted network

:refresh

netsh wlan show hostednetwork

echo Press ENTER to Refresh information!

echo ............................................................................... ################################################################################

echo Enter "RR" to Restart!

echo ............................................................................... ################################################################################

echo Enter "E" to Exit!

echo ............................................................................... ################################################################################

set /p option= || set option=r

if %option%==R goto :refresh

if %option%==r goto :refresh

if %option%==RR goto :beginning

if %option%==rr goto :beginning

if %option%==E goto :end

if %option%==e goto :end

:end

netsh wlan stop hostednetwork

Feel free to use this code for doing anything you want to do with it. (but im sure there are better versions of this that do the same thing online too)

apologies if this thread should not be here. just running out of options for getting this fixed. I believe a forum full of people who hack and mod win 8 probably have the best understanding of it!