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Windows 7 does not "use" Intel wireless adapter. How do I fix it?
Yesterday, my WiFi was working great, as usual. But then all of a sudden, the Wifi literally stopped working by itself. The Windows 7 taskbar utility thing (where you can see networks), lagged up and was unresponsive.
I rebooted and when I tried to connect there was a red "X" next to the little set of bars in the taskbar. The adapter was ON, however. I checked device manager - the adapter, Intel Centrino N6230, was there, enabled, and listed as working properly. No excelmation marks or anything like that.
The software for it, Intel MyWifi, states the adapter is not present. All of its functions are greyed out. I tried re-installing drivers - nothing changed.
I tried it in Safe Mode, no joy.
I tried to do a System Restore but it does not work because of an error: "Could not access a file. This may be because of an antivirus program. Disable it and try again." It was something like that. I tried disabling but it STILL gave the same error.
I know my hardware is fine, because when I try to use it under a different OS, Ubuntu-Linux, it runs perfectly fine.
Please help? This is extremely frustrating.