Windows 10: When i try to install legacy hardware it says hardware cannot be installed and then it says...

When i try to install legacy hardware it says hardware cannot be installed and then it says the system cannot find the file specified. Also I uninstalled microsoft basic display adapter and realtek high definition audio it shows the same when I try to install both of the drivers.

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Teredo adapter not listed in "add legacy hardware" menu

I've been having a ton of trouble with the microsoft store today, which I have never had before, and have spent all day trying to fix it. My latest possible theory as to the cause is the Teredo adapter. It doesn't seem to be installed when i look through
the device manager, and it is not listed in the legacy hardware, as the title suggests. I have already tried showing hidden devices, and when i have searched for others having the same issue, they always ended up finding out that it was there when viewing
hidden devices.

For me, however, it is still absent.

So if it is not there while viewing hidden devices, and it is also not listed in the add legacy hardware menu, then how the heck can I get Teredo installed? every single guide I can find on how to install teredo says to go through the device manager, but
it just isn't there for me.

 

About legacy hardware in windows 10

There's no 'legacy mode' in a BIOS, however there is a legacy BIOS mode in a UEFI. A better name for it is "legacy - that is, BIOS - mode."

If your computer shipped with UEFI/GPT it's probably compatible with Windows 10, but that's not a guarantee. To know
for sure whether your hardware is compatible with Windows 10, you have to make a list of all the hardware in the computer and then find out whether each component is compatible. You do this by checking with each component's manufacturer.

Here's what you will discover:

If the manufacturer supports a hardware component on Windows 10, that means the manufacturer has written a driver for Windows 10 and tested the component on Windows 10.

If the manufacturer does not support the hardware on Windows 10, that means it's not writing a driver or testing the hardware on Windows 10. However, an earlier driver - say a Windows 8 or Windows 7 driver - may still be
compatible with Windows 10. That means you can use the hardware on Windows 10 for now, but eventually it will stop working properly or at all.

BTW - the legacy mode in a UEFI doesn't have anything to do with legacy hardware. It means you can boot the computer with an operating system that was written for the older BIOS booting system instead of the newer UEFI.

 

UEFI install vs legacy install

I wonder how many of you here install windows by pure uefi mode rather than the default legacy. Do you have any problem installing any new hardware with uefi install?

I face alot of problem just getting pure uefi install for windows 8 like it could not update, it runs slow and glitchy. I only found the fix later is to disable Compatibility Support Module(CSM) in the bios menu to solve that and reinstall as windows is loading up legacy drivers causing errors. I currently don't have any pcie graphic card, I just wonder this would be a problem like having graphic card without CSM on just purely uefi mode.