Recovering from a rouge VPN on windows 11

 

What caused the problem:

    i suspect it was VPN's when the ip of the capture network matched home IP.  (I had forgot to change my local ip from 192.168.0.1)

    symptoms, would not get traffic from internet.

    Best solution was to delete the network adapters.

• Right-click the Start menu and select Device Manager.

• Expand the Network adapters section.

• Right-click your primary Wi-Fi / Wireless adapter (e.g., Intel Wi-Fi, Realtek, or Qualcomm) and select Uninstall device.

    

However, you should save your drivers

md "C:\DriverBackup"

dism /online /export-driver /destination:"C:\DriverBackup"

To save the bitlocker key

    manage-bde -protectors -add C: -RecoveryKey F:

search for wireguard

    sc query type= service | findstr /i wireguard

setting up AI inference computer OMEN 45L GT22-3090

 So far, pretty simple.

Ran win11debloat (to remove the massive amount of crap HP installs)

Remove macafee

    need to set context window to 131072

install VScode -- install AI toolkit -- allows using free large models

Install WSL -- just because

install opencode & ollama

To fix the context menu

reg add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve 

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe 

start explorer.exe