Wifi stops working and wifi settings disappear.

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For reasons beyond my understanding my wifi occasionally completely disappears, when it does I can no longer access my wifi settings either. The Wifi section under settings just completely disappears. Restarting my laptop fixes the problem and it does not happen often, but it is quite annoying nonetheless. Does anyone know what might cause this?

Menu (idk the name) when the problem occurs vs normally. Wifi settings are missing.
I did not screenshot it at the time but when opening the full settings the Wifi settings are also missing.
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Initial guess, looking at the battery indicator - could it be as simple as the battery is low and the PC is turning off unnecessary hardware to prolong power?
Maybe the wireless adapter is going to sleep, and the reboot wakes it up.

If this theory holds water, you could change the wifi adapter to not go to sleep, or set the Power Options to use High Performance which normally sets all hardware to not go into a suspend state.
 
The battery is nearly full though? Or am I missing something here?
I will use high performance and see if the problem repeats. It happens very infrequently (last time before today was literal months ago) so I'll have no real way to tell if it worked unless it happens again.

Thanks for the advice :D
Bruce said:
Initial guess, looking at the battery indicator - could it be as simple as the battery is low and the PC is turning off unnecessary hardware to prolong power?
Maybe the wireless adapter is going to sleep, and the reboot wakes it up.

If this theory holds water, you could change the wifi adapter to not go to sleep, or set the Power Options to use High Performance which normally sets all hardware to not go into a suspend state.
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veeg said:
Any updates ?
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Like I said, the problem happens so infrequently that I can't really tell if the fix proposed by Bruce has worked, I previously thought I fixed it when it went away for a few months but recently it came back. I do not know what causes it so I cannot recreate a situation where it would occur to test the fix. Will just have to wait and see.
 
Ok.. This is what we will do then.. I will close your thread and when the issue comes up again contact a staff member and we will re-open this thread .
 
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