Dear Julian,
First of all, thank you for taking your time for such a detailed explanation. Once I get back home tonight I'll follow your suggestions, step by step.
Unfortunatelly, I have already done most or almost all you've said.
It looks like there is something messed-up at the registry level and / or the microsoft driver has been changed.
Hoping that registry entries would be fixed, I did a windows reset (keep my files options) and still no luck.
Was my assumption that the Windows reset would fix resgistry issues wrong?
Regarding the driver store, I used Drive Store Explorer (aka RAPR) that is much more user friendly than the cmd command. I ran it before doing the reset I found nothing wird there except for the fact that my notebook had a noticeable preference to store several copies (around 30) of a realteck driver, with the same version but different OEMxxx.inf numbers.
I have no idea if this is related or not.
The MS generic driver does not have the OEMxxx.inf scheme.
I tried to download a clean version from MS repository (that one that works only through the MS internet explorer) but I couldn't find it.
Any hint on how to search it and / or any reliable source so as to download it?
Once again, thank you so much.
PS now that I've done the Windows reset and probably ending up with a full factory reset, I'll give a try to your module. I'll provide my comments at your website.
First of all, thank you for taking your time for such a detailed explanation. Once I get back home tonight I'll follow your suggestions, step by step.
Unfortunatelly, I have already done most or almost all you've said.
It looks like there is something messed-up at the registry level and / or the microsoft driver has been changed.
Hoping that registry entries would be fixed, I did a windows reset (keep my files options) and still no luck.
Was my assumption that the Windows reset would fix resgistry issues wrong?
Regarding the driver store, I used Drive Store Explorer (aka RAPR) that is much more user friendly than the cmd command. I ran it before doing the reset I found nothing wird there except for the fact that my notebook had a noticeable preference to store several copies (around 30) of a realteck driver, with the same version but different OEMxxx.inf numbers.
I have no idea if this is related or not.
The MS generic driver does not have the OEMxxx.inf scheme.
I tried to download a clean version from MS repository (that one that works only through the MS internet explorer) but I couldn't find it.
Any hint on how to search it and / or any reliable source so as to download it?
Once again, thank you so much.
PS now that I've done the Windows reset and probably ending up with a full factory reset, I'll give a try to your module. I'll provide my comments at your website.