So, I recently re-installed Windows 7 Ultimate on a laptop, and upon finishing re-install (and adding personalized backgrounds, obviously) I tried connecting to the internet to download my preferred browser, however I found that I had no internet connection. Went to diagnostics, found out I have no internet drivers. at all. or something. Tried downloading this to no avail (read on a support forum somewhere that might help)
tl;dr I have a fresh Windows 7 64 bit install. I have no network drivers. Help please!
Edit: If anyone has any familiarity with a good Linux OS, I'd be willing to reinstall to that. After checking online a bit more it looks like the Windows 7 issue is pretty much global.
Your in device manager, which is a good start. If a driver isn't installed you'll either have a question mark or exclamation mark by it. Expand that as you have done with the 'System Devices' then highlight it, right click and go to 'Properties'. Go to the details tab and in the drop down menu at 'Properties' choose 'Hardware ID'. In the value box you'll see something like PCI\VEN_xxxx&DEV_xxxx - that's the information that tells you the manufacturer and device details that we need. Post a screen shot of that please.
If you don't have a question mark in device manager then all drivers are installed correctly and your problem lies elsewhere.
I just double checked the network diagnostics, and under the "Install a driver for your network adapter" it says "Windows did not detect a properly installed network adapter"