Wireless LAN Adapter on Lenovo laptop being really annoying

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Okay, so I have a Lenovo laptop. One day I had to restart because of some updates and when it booted back up, the LAN adapter just wouldn't work. I went to device manager and under the 'Network Adapters' tab the '2x2 11b/g/n Wireless LAN M.2 Adapter' has one of the yellow triangles with an ! in it. So I click on it and it says "Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)".
So I searched around and found out it's a driver issue and tried everything. I uninstalled and reinstalled, disabled and reenabled, uninstalled and downloaded and installed the driver from Lenovo's website. And everytime it says the same thing. The first time this happened I don't really know what I did but it started working again, and I thought I would be good to go. About a week later I installed some windows updates again and it happened. (I don't know if windows updates are related, but it happened at around the same time.) I don't want to roll back my computer because I just transfered all of my media from my desktop to my laptop.
If anybody could help me out please it would be very appreciated!
 
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Doing a System Restore will not affect any of your media files or documents, or indeed anything else in your user folder, though you will have to re-install any software that was installed after the restore point date.

If it is caused by a Windows update, I'd be tempted to turn off automatic updates after doing a System Restore (I have them routinely turned off anyway, always have done for the past 15 years with no ill-effects whatsoever). Having said that, I also have a reliable antivirus and third-party firewall installed, essential if you run Windows with automatic updates disabled).
Doing a System Restore will not affect any of your media files or documents, or indeed anything else in your user folder, though you will have to re-install any software that was installed after the restore point date.

If it is caused by a Windows update, I'd be tempted to turn off automatic updates after doing a System Restore (I have them routinely turned off anyway, always have done for the past 15 years with no ill-effects whatsoever). Having said that, I also have a reliable antivirus and third-party firewall installed, essential if you run Windows with automatic updates disabled).
 
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