I too lost my network adapter. and hence my wi-fi. I restored to a previous date and now my adapter and wifi is working again. This is not the first time my adapter disappeared. I suspect it will...

Thank you for the info, Nighthawk. It is much appreciated. I love this Forum.

Using Firefox, I must have surfed about 20 websites including this one with all their complicated mumbo jumbo "solutions", none of which worked. Then it hit me- Why don't I simply restore...

I had this problem. I just went into the device manager and updated the Realtek driver. It worked.