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No internet connection following win10 update
A few days ago I lost my desktop wired internet connection, changing all the cables and troubleshooting got me nowhere but going back to a restore point solved the problem. I had to do this 2 consecutive days, but when the same thing happened on the 3rd day the restore point I was using was gone from the list & I was dead in the water. Troubleshooting suggested that the problem was with my LAN adapter driver, although the Device Manager indicated that the device was working properly. Downloading the current driver from Realtek did not solve the problem.
Besides installing the latest driver I tried un-installing and reinstalling the adapter, resetting winsock, and flushing the DNS cache. I was unable to do ipconfig release and renew because the system couldn't find the adapter.I tried installing a portable WiFi adaper in a USB port, but that got me the same error messages as I got with the wired connection. The portable WiFi device and the router are working because I'm using them to get online with a Raspberry Pi right now. I suspect there's a Windows 10 conflict that was created by a recent update. Windows Helpdesk was not able to help me. Any ideas?