Bought a USB wireless adapter from Amazon. Stuck it in the USB port and it instantly connected. It also came with an installation disk for a driver utility. Being the curious sort (no sermons, please), I installed the utility and driver on the disk. Right away, I could not connect. Still can't connect my wireless adapter. I went through all the regedit steps (deleted upper/lower limits), but no joy. Tried to download a new driver from the Realtek website - just not there (send me a link if you know where it is).

Tried to restore, but "History" was never enabled - nothing to restore to.
Uninstalled/reinstalled device - restarted. No help. Uninstalled Utility and driver - restarted. It lets me disable and enable the adapter, but still can't connect.

Weird: >> the utility had a "Disabled" checkbox that was checked. When I tried to uncheck it, it immediately put the check mark back (????)

Got any ideas?? I've spent hours on the web and emailed Realtek tech support. Waiting... Thanks in advance...

Not sure what this means: "Device USB\VID_0BDA&PID_8812\123456 requires further installation."

This post was edited on 10/30/16 at 2:46 pm

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Posted by deNYEd

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Member since Jul 2007

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Posted on 10/31/16 at 10:31 am to tigerpawl

from what it sound like Windows was properly handling the wireless adapter and the 3rd party software is not. You need to disable the 3rd party and tell windows to handle the wireless again. Cant tell you how to do this in windows 10 but here is an old article addressing a similar issue. LINK

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Posted by tigerpawl

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Member since Dec 2003

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Posted on 10/31/16 at 11:32 am to deNYEd

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from what it sound like Windows was properly handling the wireless adapter and the 3rd party software is not. You need to disable the 3rd party and tell windows to handle the wireless again. Cant tell you how to do this in windows 10 but here is an old article addressing a similar issue. LINK

That seems logical, but that's the first thing I did. The PC did not revert back to the original WIN10 config.

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