WiFi Adaptor Randomly Disabling

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Brandon Byrnes

Brandon Byrnes

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I've been having a problem lately with my WiFi adapter losing connection. It either loses connection to the router, says there's no WiFi networks available to connect to, or disconnects and the adapter gets disabled. This has been going on for about two weeks now. It usually takes a restart in order for the problem to solve it self (Windows troubleshooter seems worthless). When it shows the wireless adapter is disabled I try to enable it and it says enabled then goes to disabled again. All my drivers are updated, and the firmware for the WiFi adapter is updated. I am wondering if possibly my VPN is causing this (it started happening around the time I installed it) I have included a screenshot of the Network Connections window. The last Windows updates were Feature update version 2004, And Cumulative Update KB4552925, both of those were updated/installed on the 28th.

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okay quick update. I do have my VPN switched off, but I decided to do a fresh install, not clean install, and it seems to have solved my problem, but now I am having a problem with File Explorer taking forever to load, if it actually loads at all (i'm not sure because I've just ended up closing it after it takes like 5 minutes and still shows that it's loading) Also with my external Hard drive is not showing thunbnails just a blank page icon for files, and the Layout section of the ribbon is greyed out, so I can't change the view, along with File explorer taking forever to load. I really hate to admit it but I think I might have to do a clean install, what do you think? Also I should mention I was having problems with BSOD's up until 2 days ago, the last one being Unexpected kernal mode trap, and I'm having problems with GTAV crashing randomly. I read that the kernal mode trap BSOD could be related to RAM, and I did just upgrade my RAM not to long ago, but I ran the Windows Memory check and it didn't detect any errors. I also read it could be caused by overclocking but I disabled all overclocking i was doing about a week ago after I bought a new GPU. So long story short I am experiencing a host of problems right now. It seems like every day it's something different.
 
Do a clean install. As your WIFI problem is solved you should see if there are any other issues after your fresh install and then start a new thread if necessary.

If after a fresh install you have wifi issues please contact a staff member who can reopen this thread.
 
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