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Arc had originally suggested to do a clean install to find the most appropriate driver for the built in LAN card. My current installation of Windows 7 was based on a clean install and the driver that Windows supplied was a year older (2008) then the one that was available on the Realtek website which was 2009. Both were way out of date so Arc suggested my next move was to buy a new LAN card which I have done. And I have updated the drivers for the new card as well.
Besides that I have deleted the driver from the old card(RTnic64.sys) and disabled the LAN. When I check the location of where that driver was (c:/windows/system32/drivers), it isn't there anymore.