Symptoms

The following situation has been encountered:

After removing version 2.17.0 of any of the mvGenTL_Acquire*.msi packages and installing an older version (2.16.1 or smaller) no network connections are displayed in the "Network And Sharing Center" any more
Running ipconfig will still list the network interfaces correctly with their IP address however

Cause

This problem may occur when one of the following conditions is true:

You have installed a mvGenTL_Acquire*.msi package with version 2.17.0 on Windows Vista or newer
You have removed this installation again
You have installed a mvGenTL_Acquire*.msi package with version 2.16.1 or smaller on that very same system afterwards

You have installed a 32-bit kernel driver on a 64-bit version of Windows
You have installed a version of the kernel driver that is not signed in a way it matches the signature requirements for the targeted version of Windows. See this section as well!

Start the GigEConfigure on that system
Press the Remove Driver button
Start a administrator command shell on that system
type pnputil -e and press ENTER (since newer versions of Windows 10 -e has been superseded by /enum-drivers)
type pnputil -f -d (since newer versions of Windows 10 -e has been superseded by /delete-driver) and the name of the INF file containing the following data (the number between oem and .inf may vary):
```
Published name :            oem36.inf
Driver package provider :   MATRIX VISION GmbH
Class :                     Network Service
Driver date and version :   06/28/2016 3.0.1.55
```
remove every occurrence of mvGigECapture.sys or mvGigECapture2.sys from %windir%/System32/drivers and/or %windir%/SysWOW64/drivers (actually here you should NEVER see an instance of the filter driver thus this is a 32-bit folder on a 64-bit system and 32-kernel code is not supported on 64-bit Windows thus a buggy installation was the cause of this!).
restart the system
Start the GigEConfigure tool on that system
Press the Install Driver button