Author: systemuserSubject: TCPView is not showing Sent/Received bytes
Posted: 11 May 2015 at 1:18am
Okay, this is weird.
After months and months and months of absolutely no packet/byte count display using (possibly two versions of) TCPView, today I tried it out again and they're back!
This is using the same last version of TCPView that did not work completely before.
So what changed?
Well...I made the mistake of installing the optional Windows 8.1 Update that was offered within the last week - KB3022345 without actually reading what it was all about. When I found out that it was essentially the enabling of a keylogger et al with zero benefit to the user (me), I attempted to UNinstall it and that broke. So I spent hours tracking down a method to uninstall it and eventually found this:
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2226753/microsoft-subnet/how-users-are-fixing-windows-8-1-update-install-problems.htmlwhich purports to be a fix of some type that would then allow a corrupt update file to be uncorrupted so that darn "patch" could be removed. To make this short story a little longer, those set of steps failed and I could NOT, still, remove that unwanted "optional" update, so I simply disabled the "Diagnostic Tracking Service" and hope I'm still rather private.
But after all that - the install of that keylogger, the attempt to use Windows Update Uninstall to remove it, then most of the steps at the link above, TCPView started showing packet and byte counts again!
Yay!
So - you guys who know the networking internals thoroughly and actually know what the steps I took DO (not me! not me!) now have a strong clue about what caused the counts to disappear and what caused the counts to reappear.