Problems after recovery from 2013 backup

I made a full backup of my C drive (Win 7) a couple years ago, and I'm having troubles restoring it.

I'm using Acronis 2013 boot disk and restoring from the backup I made.  The first issue I run into is the computer won't boot because of a missing boot file.  I resolved this by booting from a Windows 7 recovery disk which replaced the missing start up files needed, and now the system boots.

After booting, I noticed the internet connection was REALLY SLOW, like I'm connected through an old 1200 baud modem.  Takes 3 minutes just to load the Google home page, no joke. Then I noticed Windows update wouldn't work, says the windows update service isn't running.

After fishing around on the microsoft website for solution, I think I've got Windows update halfway working now by opening a command prompt and using some stop and start services commands.

But I still can't get a connection to the internet to work through a webbrowser.  Tried with machine connected directly to LAN, and also connected to WiFi. Neither method gives me a good internet connection.  Tried resetting winsock, and that seems to have killed the LAN connection totally.

So what did I do wrong?  Everything was functional when I created the origional backup. Why don't things work when I restore from it?  Any help appreciated.