Registry solution worked perfectly, thanks so much, I’d tried a few things before and actually gave up last time but thought I’d give it one more shot.
You could add more to the section Regarding Network adapters. Before you open that choice in the menu, go above to View, and choose “show hidden files”. Then when you click on the Network Adapters, you get a huge list, rather than a small one. Click every single adapter, in turn, and see if it has the “Power Management” tab as shown above. If it has a tab, open it and uncheck all boxes regarding allowing it to turn off the ‘device’. I discovered one of these was allowing my IP address to fall out, and requiring me to restart my Laptop, in order to get a new one assigned, if I left it alone for a nap, or whatever. It worked like a charm until the last update from Microscrew. gotta check it again.
I have tried everything on this first page including comments, and nothing works.
During 2 years of same ISP and router I used Win 7 64-bit (with 3 external wifi antennas) and two different mobile phones, and never had issues. After I bought a new computer with Win 10 64-bit (and internal wifi) I get disconnected several times each day, and it never reconnects. I even bought the stupid program, it found wifi / internet issues but that did not fix it, and it was just money wasted.
I would go Linux (Mint), but I play World of Warcraft.
Strangely, the only way I could get mine to connect at turn on was to to tick the box Allow Computer To Turn Off This Device To Save Power. The reverse of what you would expect.
Can you tell me the model of the wifi adapter on the system? And have you tried changing from 5 ghz to 2.5 or 2.5 to 5 and then connecting to it?
So when does more response happen. 2 days now and waiting.
Do other devices stay connected with your router? Also, how old is the router or the modem ?
The “power” thing worked for me. It was shutting off power to my adapter and taking it’s sweet time waking back up.
Truly abominable. What a terrible turn of event for MS operating system. Same for the dvd, disc hardware. I have to start and restart till it recognizes the disc. What a bunch of bs. Wish MS was over.
Glad, you got it resolved.
I solved the problem very easily.
- Within the device manager, under VIEW, choose “show hidden devices”
- disabled the “microsoft wifi direct virtual adapter”
- disable the “microsoft hosted network virtual adapter”
- restart
Well like I said before, that depends on what the state of connection was. If the modem was reset due to a power outage the machine does NOT reconnect, even if the modem then gets its connection a few minutes later the machines internet never comes back up. If the Modem was already working and connected to the internet (NO power outage scenario) then the machine just auto connects after reboot, as it should. I think I need to invest in a few UPS’s, one for the modem and one for my two PC’s. I am curious what happens when I get a power outage but the modem stays on. Maybe the phone lines/dsl stay powered up since it is supposed to be an independently powered service. Maybe the internet will never shut down then.
It does auto connect by itself, if it detects the activity on the ethernet port.
The registry bit worked. Thanks! It’s really strange that you have to mess with registry to allow such simple thing. At least in w7 it just worked.
Thank you Kevin the registry entry worked for me. I was in the middle of watching a video and hit the wifi button by accident instead of the volume button and ever since then it would not connect automatically on startup.
Try connecting to 2.4 Ghz frequency, if it is not broadcasting it then using the device that can connect to the router, login to it’s control panel and see if it has an option to change frequency from the wifi settings on the router. Leave the sharing settings as it is.
Can you post a screen shot here? Do you have any wireless networks showing up at all? and were you previously connected?
When you click the wifi icon in the task bar, and you see your wireless name (what happens) when you right click the name of your network?
C:Windowssystem32>Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.10586.0
Image Version: 10.0.10586.0
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Error: 0x800f081f
The source files could not be found.
Use the “Source” option to specify the location of the files that are required to restore the feature. For more information on specifying a source location, see Configure a Windows Repair Source | Microsoft Learn.
The DISM log file can be found at C:WindowsLogsDISMdism.log