Windows 10 WiFi not showing (fully updated drivers)

Mimsy42

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I've tried running netsh wlan show networks and the result was "error connecting to wireless autoconfig service (wlansvc): error 1220"
I'm not really sure what thatnmeans, any advice?
 

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Validate that the services "WLAN Auto Config" depends on are all running.

Open a Powershell prompt and type Get-Service -Name "wlansvc" -ServicesDependedOn every service returned needs to be running if they are not type Start-Service -Name <insert service name in the name column> of the service(s) that are not running

Neemobeer

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I'd start out by running sfc /scannow to verify there isn't any corruption. Also open services.msc and valid the WLAN AutoConfig service is running as well as it's dependencies.
 

Mimsy42

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I'm not sure what a dependency is but WLAN is running.

I typed in *SFC /scannow* but it said I must be an administrator running a console session to use it
I'm not sure what a console session is but my info has me listed as an administrator.
 

Neemobeer

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You can to locate "Command Prompt" and right click and select "Run As Administrator".

Even though your user is a member of the administrators group your user actually runs as a regular user except when you invoke the "Run As Administrator" then that particular process will run with a special admin user token
 

Mimsy42

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Ah sorry 😅, the response was that "windows resource protection did not find any integrity violations. :/
 

Neemobeer

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Validate that the services "WLAN Auto Config" depends on are all running.

Open a Powershell prompt and type Get-Service -Name "wlansvc" -ServicesDependedOn every service returned needs to be running if they are not type Start-Service -Name <insert service name in the name column> of the service(s) that are not running
 

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