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My WiFi on my laptop occasionally just drops out despite my phone working fine.
I found the issue to be in the change adaptor options where the WiFi was listed as disabled.
I reenabled it and it worked fine for a while but now has again disappeared again but this time when I click on change network adapter options nothing comes up and all my desktop items flash and disappear for a second before reappearing. Any explanations?
I found the issue to be in the change adaptor options where the WiFi was listed as disabled.
I reenabled it and it worked fine for a while but now has again disappeared again but this time when I click on change network adapter options nothing comes up and all my desktop items flash and disappear for a second before reappearing. Any explanations?
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kemical
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Hi Mimsy and welcome to the forum.
Have you tried updating the wifi driver?
The driver itself should be available from your laptops support page. If you post the make and model of your lappie we'll point you in the right direction.
Have you tried updating the wifi driver?
The driver itself should be available from your laptops support page. If you post the make and model of your lappie we'll point you in the right direction.
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Open a command prompt and type netsh wlan show networks do you get a list of available networks?
Also open regedit navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkUxManager\Windows.Networking.UX.Internal.WlanMediaManager
Validate there is a property called Active of type REG_DWORD if it is set to 0, change it to 1 and see if you can see networks.
Also open regedit navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkUxManager\Windows.Networking.UX.Internal.WlanMediaManager
Validate there is a property called Active of type REG_DWORD if it is set to 0, change it to 1 and see if you can see networks.