This tutorial is to address an issue in Windows 10 where clicking on the network icon in the system tray (down by the system time) and having no connections listed or no wireless networks visible. This issue appears to stem from registry values being improperly toggled.
Network Icon
This is a image of what you might normally see when you left click on the network icon.
And here is how it can appear when settings are not correct. Note we see no network adapters nor the wireless SSIDs as seen above.
Now to the fixing part.
Network Icon
This is a image of what you might normally see when you left click on the network icon.
And here is how it can appear when settings are not correct. Note we see no network adapters nor the wireless SSIDs as seen above.
Now to the fixing part.
- Press [Windows key + r]
- Type regedit and press enter
- Expand the HKEY LOCAL MACHINE KEY to the following location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkUxManager
- Expanding the NetworkUXManager key you should see several registry keys (These each control specific interface types)
- The two most important to most people will be EthernetMediaManager and WlanMediaManager
- Now lets go through each starting with DAMediaManager
- Select each key shown above and locate the Active value shown in the right hand pane
- If Active is not set to one double-click on Active and change the value to 1 and press OK
- Repeat this process for each key on the left