Update: I fixed it! I tinkered with many things related to my network adapter, but I think it was re-enabling my DNS client service (which was greyed out and required some RegEdit shenanigans to bring it to heel) that finally unclogged the network u-bend. I was only trying to do that because I couldn't switch network discovery on, which I thought might be relevant.
You Sir are my hero
Same here, DNS client was disabled. In the system control - services I could unfortunately not simply restart it (option was disabled). But with CMD (started as administrator) and
REG add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Dnscache" /v Start /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f
followed by a PC restart it worked again.
However, the DNS client had been deactivated for months and I played daily before the patch....
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