My computer had gotten a virus, and because I had been meaning to reformat soon anyway, I just went ahead and reformatted. However, a lot of problems came up (I'll be posting in other places too), one of which being that my Network Connections is completely blank. When I try to create a Local Area Network nothing happens. I have a built in ethernet port, so the CD that came with my motherboard has an updated driver for it, which I installed. That didn't work, so I tried to uninstall the drive and then reinstall the drive, and then install the drivers, that also didn't work.

If you go into device manager, does your Ethernet adapter show up as installed? My name is JRComp, and I approve this message.

Yes, no errors found with it either.

You have to install all the drivers for your motherboard, not just the Ethernet controllers. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. Robert Lee Frost

If your Network Connections is completely empty, you mostly can solve this by doing the following: Click at start / run type in CMD and click ok run the following 3 commands: regsvr32 netman.dll regsvr32 netcfgx.dll regsvr32 netshell.dll This should solve that problem. After that, you should be able to check your network settings.