Laptop Wireless stopped function after 8.1 update

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Recently I did some maintenance and updates on my sister's laptop. Afterwards her wireless stopped working. Read a few guides on this and uninstalled then reinstalled an older version of the driver. However it's still not working. By not working I mean it's not showing any connections. Also, yes airplane mode is off.

I'm using a HP laptop, and the network adapter is a Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller.

Also, wired connection still works fine on it. Just wireless that's being a pain.

UPDATE: I revealed hidden devices and found two more things.
1. Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter
2. Ralink RT3290 802.11bgn Wi-Fi Adapter
 
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Well it was working completely fine before this, and and there are numerous reports of this problem, so I doubt it's a hardware issue. This would also take up one of the very few USB ports.
 
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Just says "connect Ethernet cord" even after I press skip. I'm using the "refresh" function on it which is apparently a factory reset that keeps personal files and documents but erases applications and updates. I'll let you know how it goes.
 
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I've done the refresh, and it's fixed nothing. Applying the rest of the windows 8 updates but I'm not hopeful. Any other idea?
 
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I think I'm experiencing something similar to monitor mode. However the only network adapter I have is the PCIe family controller, the ralink one isn't showing up. I've done a factory reset by the way.
 
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