Home and Small Office Local Connections

A local area connection is automatically created for each network adapter in your computer that is detected by Plug and Play. After a network adapter is installed, it is detected by the Plug and Play service. Network Connections enumerates the adapter and populates the Network Connections folder with a local area connection. Because local area connections are dependent upon a network card being recognized in the computer, they cannot be created by using Create a new connection.

For the adapter to be detected and the connection created, Plug and Play, Network Connections, and Remote Procedure Call (RPC) services must be started. All of these services start automatically; no user interaction is required.