Windows 10: Friends Computer Froze, Reverted to old settings, and won’t detect a network adapter.

Hello, A friend of mine is having an issue with his Gaming PC. He just had it upgraded not too long ago, but last night when he was on his computer froze did not display an error code, only said “an error has occurred”, he rebooted and logged in and noticed all of his settings reverted back to the way they were months ago, all of his icons are gone and everything was deleted from his drives. It also said “no network adapter found” but he is hardwired in. If anyone has any insight on this, it would greatly be appreciated.

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Which network adapter?

My friend recently came over to my house with his laptop. Before I could connect him to my lan he detected several wireless networks in the area. I want to connect to these wireless networks, but I don't know what kind of adapter I need. I searched his laptop model and this is his network adapter http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/wireless/wireless_n/overview.htm

It seems he could get both N, and G signals

what would any of you guys suggest?

 

Windows could not automatically detect this network’s proxy settings

@Compumind @Samuria

Hi - Just so you know, I'm marking this "problem solved". I found this online How to Solve the Windows Could Not Automatically Detect Network Proxy Settings Error. Doing the last step under #2 is what solved the problem. McAvee is still scanning incoming. McAvee & Malwarebytes still show no problems with a full scan. Thanks for your help and suggestions.

 

No computer detection on wired network

I have a household network that is hard-wired; the wireless is only for hand-held devices. I've been experiencing an issue lately where my wired desktop stopped detecting or being detected by the other computer and drive on the wired network but is detecting
and being detected by a SURFACE on the wireless network.

My desktop computer- Does not detect the other computer or the network drive (wired) but detects the Surface on the wireless network. Surface asks for credentials despite private network access settings. Allows access after sign in.

The other computer- Does not detect my desktop computer. Detects and accesses the network drive (wired). Detects and accesses the Surface on the wireless network. The Surface does not ask for credentials for access to folders.

The Surface- Only detects itself. No other computers in the network.

It would appear that my desktop computer has experienced network bugs since the zillions of updates the last couple of months. The network was well-connected when I first installed the network drive. Here are some notes of what I've been trying in order
to avoid duplication of suggestions and replies.

• I have set/reset the router.
• I have tried uninstalling the recent updates with no change in the situation. After those experiments, I upgraded to Win10 Version 2004 to bring the system back up to date.
• I have already done the SMB on/off changes and some of the service.msc adjustments with no luck. There may be more from what I've been seeing but there is also no consistency so I'll wait to hear what y'all have to say.
• All of the devices have been set in "network and sharing" to allow detection and sharing on the network and password protection is disabled.
• The printers are wired as well and are detected and used by all computers in the house.
• It is interesting to me that the devices are visible under Network>Media Devices, but the related computers aren't listed under Network>Computer.

My ideas in order of preference:

1. Pray you all to have a solution that involves Windows configurations settings only.
2. Find software to override Windows 10 Networking and manage my home network (4 Desktops, 2 printers, and a NAS).
3. Learn how to assign the computers with hard IP addresses and force detection. (But that won't help my NAS.)
4. Run a repair of Windows 10.
5. Clean install Windows 10.