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betogas
Aspirant
Apr 04, 2017

Netgear genie stops working. Opens and then errors out everytime time (Win10)

Everytime I open NETGEAR Netgenie it stops working with error message "NETGEAR Genie has stopped working.  A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and n...
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William10a
Master
Apr 04, 2017

What antivirus are you running some have caused problems with Genie in many past postings

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    betogas
    Aspirant
    Apr 05, 2017

    I have windows defender, but I feel it is related to VMWare workstation 12, it generates multiple virtual nics, I have a total of 16. Yesterday I uninstalled VMware to test and NETGEAR Genie started working, but I had to install it again as it is more important for me to have VMWare. Can we look at multiple nic or virtual nic incompatibility with NETGEAR Genie?