Unable to install minishift's virtual external connection under Windows 10

I am trying to start containerizing my companies project which will eventually be hosted on private OpenShift pods. There are good starting images on both DockerHub and GitHub for some of the infrastructure I need. However, minishift (from the openshift cdk) fails during installation. The early, obvious issue with minishift is that the Hyper V "Virtual Switch Manager" returns an error on creating an external network "A process has requested access to an object, but has not been granted access rights" and so "minishift start" fails.

I have seen some old posts on addressing this kind of concern by allowing external network connections into the network driver level (ie for the ethernet card or wireless driver). Is there another workaround without such a large cybersecurity hole?