DWA-140 Netgear USB wireless adapter

I friend had an old Win7 machine that I replaced with a five year old 
Win10 machine and used his old wireless adapter. Windows automatically 
installed it and I tested it by doing all the Windows updates.
Seemed fine but it would not connect to most websites.

I never saw such a thing.
When I had a look at his Won7 machine I noticed the wireless was working 
fine with the factory provided drivers whose interface took over for 
Windows drivers.

Just curious as to what kind of odd security the factory drivers 
contained. Rather then mess around with it, I just used another wireless 
adapter since I had a box full of them.