Parallels 11 (and 10 for that matter) Location Unavailable

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tin omen

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I cannot enable location services in Windows 10. I just upgraded to Parallels 11 in hopes that it would fix the issue, but it has not.
I am running Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10.5 (MBP13-Late2013), Parallels 11, and my guest is Windows 10 Pro (an upgrade from Windows 7 Ultimate)
Everything works great on the Win10 guest, except that the Location setting under Settings>Privacy, Location is turned off and greyed out.
This means that I cannot enable Cortana.
I have hours of searches logged on this issue so far, and nothing seems to work to fix the issue.
Any suggestions on how I can get location service to enable?
 
Am I reading that correctly?
Here is my interpretation:
"Location services uses a WiFi adapter to get location. Since the parallels virtual network adapter is presented to the guest as a wired adapter, location services cannot start."
I don't really know what to make of the last part since 3D support has nothing to do with location services...
To be honest, the linked thread seems a bit disjointed... Kind of like hearing only one side of a conversation.
Is there a work-around so that I can set my location manually?
 
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That was it. Resetting Windows 10 to defaults did the trick. Location services is now available again. Something must have carried over from Windows 7.
 
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