wireshark no interfaces found on windows

Of course access to the network cards requires certain privileges, like it does on any other plattform. Happy first of all, I doubt there are that many people in the world who know more about running Wireshark on Windows than if any. If this workaround is not acceptable or you'd like to work with and understand the underlying drivers better, please answer grahamb's original question and continue working through root cause with him. However, if you know your environment and what traffic you are capturing, I personally think opening an email on a network connected PC is far more risky than running wireshark (a single application on an isolated PC.) Of course, this risk increases if you are doing security investigations and capturing malicious traffic. Please adhere to your personal or company policies. As always, though, you should be careful how and where you use administrative privileges as this exposes you to more risk. Being that you're running Wireshark I assume you already understand your administrative and security footprints. As a workaround you can force wireshark to run as administrator. We definitely cant get winpcap to run at startup. Unfortunately, in win 8/10 WinPcap and Wireshark do not work well under these conditions for some reason.

We may be granted temporary admin rights on an as needed basis.

If that doesn't work, you may be encountering a similar problem that I have. Please see the link in the previous post to set this up correctly if you have not already done so. Wireshark's underlying driver (winpcap) requires administrator rights.

Just because you think you have a better answer or you prefer a more detailed response does not make my answer wrong. Security risks are also fairly subjective. My response does answer the question and will more than likely work. Please be careful with words like 'totally incorrect' and 'incredible security risk.' This is a nice and respectful community.

Wireshark no interfaces found on windows