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Strange PC behavior with network adapter
Hi all,
I've had windows 7 for about a year now on my PC and it has been running reasonably smooth. For the first time a few days ago, I connected to a LAN with someone running win xp which worked wonderfully.
I disabled my network adapter in Network and sharing center, and since then I cannot reconnect to the LAN. I have tried everything from connecting to remote desktop options, changing IP addresses etc etc. I have also done IP config which isn't much help since it doesn't give me a log to post.
I also cannot create a new LAN unless I connect to the internet in oder to use the LAN, which still doesn't work as it gives me error messages. An even stranger thing is that I do not see my network adapter in device manager. There is no such thing. And ontop of that, there is no "manage connections" option in my " Network and Sharing center ".
How do i fix this problem? I know i never uninstalled the network adapter drivers, yet diagnostics tests give me an error message which says that windows has not detected a properly installed network adapter driver. It makes sense since i did not see it in device manager.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance