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Yet another "One or more network protocols are missing"
I'm running Win 10 and had a power outage/hard shutdown. On restarting, the network connection was broken.
I'm running on hardwire with a Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller.
I've been troubleshooting this for days now, so it's hard to recall where I've started, but here's a rundown of everything I've tried.
Tried Network Troubleshooter, including letting it run as admin.
Tried deleting winsock and winsock2 from registry, and reloading protocols from c:\windows\inf.
Tried exporting winsock and winsock2 from a working computer to the broken one.
Tried reloading the adapter drivers.
Tried netsh winsock reset
Tried netsh int ip reset
I've gotten by all the permission issues (group policy, reset fails, etc).
Somewhere along the line, I got the BSOD with machine exception, so I ended up loading my Win 10 disk and doing a "reset". Even though it looks like it did a full install, evidently it only reloading keyfiles, as the network error still exists. After the reset, I'm running OS buld 10586.0.
With no application installed after the reset, no anti-virus software is running, so I know the error is not coming from interference with that.
Right now, I'm getting "One or more network protocols are missing on the computer" / "Windows Sockets registry entries required for network connectivity are missing."
It may be I'm simply not runnning the above "fixes" in the right order? I suspect there are some missing/corrupted files that the Windows reset doesn't fix.
I hope to avoid having to reload Win 10 for what will be the 4th time (Win 10 is not exactly a rock), but I'm running out of leads.
Any new ideas? Thanks in advance.