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01/03/2016 after losing about 4 hours of my night, I have recovered my internet connection.
All these threads have been extremely helpful. I considered the winsock recovery but didn't need to do this, but it sounded very correct. I did follow one poster's link (or it may have been from my own search) to reset the TCPIP stack in Windows 10 [ How to reset the TCPIP stack in Windows 10 - YouTube ] That didn't seem to work or possible it helped.Then I tried under 'Recovery' 'Open System Restore'. The system said I had no restore points set. I then uninstalled almost all the Windows 10 updated with a 01/01/2016 or 01/02/2016 installed date (yeah Happy New.. what a way to start), but not all of them as there was about 25 of them, but I did what i thought were the culprits to the 'network protocol missing' error.. I restarted the computer. It took very long as it appeared it was installing windows updates again. I then tried the System Restore again which was now available, which is odd because I didn't set a restore point, unless this network protocol missing was making it appear as such. I then restarted and waited very long. Still no internet. Then did a rebuild recovery which took very long but still no internet. I checked and all the recent updates were gone. I restarted one more time. I worked... go figure...