Although I don't use it much myself, I got embroiled in Windows 10 again today.
At start of day, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the boss's work-room. There's no internet! was the gist of it. (Also no NAS connection.)
Internet and NAS working ok everywhere else, so I look into it.
Sure enough, there's no light on the ethernet switch, so I follow the cables back and inspect all the connectors.
Inserting a small portable switch/hub next to the offending PC shows the cables are all ok, but no lights from the PC.
A quick reboot fails to fix things, so I raid the drawer and reboot the PC from a USB stick with Linux on it. This works ok. All lights on and Internet access ok.
Got to be something silly about the windows ethernet driver, so shut it down and boot back into windows, intending to troubleshoot the driver.
Huh! Now it comes up with the ethernet connecting ok. It takes a long while, with much disk and internet activity, but the fault has gone.
I have no idea, other than the windows driver has disabled the connection, somehow, and booting an alternative OS has re-enabled it.
Waiting for a re-occourance, or perhaps the next set of updates.
Linux isn't all that good, but windows is seriously shoddy stuff.
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