If you have read this article because you are currently staring at a disconnected globe icon, take a deep breath. You have not broken your hardware. You have not bricked your computer. You have simply lost a software translator. It is replaceable.
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If you recently created a restore point (or if Windows does it automatically), you can roll back the computer's software state to a time before you deleted the driver. If you have read this article because you
The worst-case scenario is that you checked "Delete the driver software," and Windows faithfully purged the driver from its cache. Now you have a Wi-Fi chip with no software anywhere on the drive. The "Let me pick from a list" dialog is empty. You are truly stranded. You have simply lost a software translator