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  1. Windows 11 - Can’t turn WiFi on


    Just earlier today my laptop was working with WiFi, but after closing it and coming back to it a couple hours later I can’t toggle on my WiFi. The option to turn it on and off still is there, but whenever I turn it on it just immediately switches back off. I’ve tried updating my drivers to old ones, doing a system recovery to an earlier date, performing a clean boot, and installing a new windows update but nothing works. It just randomly stopped working too, there was no update or anything that I think may have caused this. Is there anything I can do?

    :)
     
    spacepack7, Sep 8, 2024
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  2. cheetahfm Win User

    Windows 10 wifi not turning on Acer Aspire laptop

    In order to get the list of available wireless networks, you have to:

    1. Switch on Connect to suggested open hotspots (see the screenshot in question);
    2. Click on Wifi icon in the right corner. Now you have your networks back.

    After that the parameter from Step 1 can be turned off, networks will be listed normally after restarting Wifi.

    P.S. I feel rather stupid at the moment. I thought that open hotspots are passwordless hotspots and so are presumably not very safe. So of course I've turned that off during installation.
    Really hard to see any logic in this case.
     
    cheetahfm, Sep 8, 2024
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  3. Gani 5A6 Win User
    my wifi is not turning on

    So I have an dell i5 laptop t. It came with Windows 10

    Windows 11 - Can’t turn WiFi on 109d03db-4355-43a0-8733-0e564d565ee8.png
    . It had been working perfectly until yesterday. All of a sudden Windows would not allow me to turn wifi on and thus was stuck in airplane mode.
    If you went to the wifi settings and turned it on the switch would just move right back to the off position.

    I tried every suggestion I could find on the internet to resolve it (I don't have a wired connection available so had to research on my phone) and nothing worked. The things I have tried are as follows:

    • Restart
    • Had windows attempt to diagnose and repair the connection. Every time ti diagnosed that wifi was turned off so it's solution was to turn on wifi which it seemed to do. Then on the part where it validates that the fix worked, the wifi had turned itself back
      off and thus validation failed.
     
    Gani 5A6, Sep 8, 2024
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  4. Windows 11 - Can’t turn WiFi on

    Turn of push notice 'action required Wifi' Lumia 950

    Hi, Kittyvan H.

    Thank you for posting on Microsoft Community.

    Turn WiFi search off, when you don’t need it, by taping on WiFi quick action button or by managing your
    WiFi notification by following these steps:

    • Slide your finger downwards on the screen.
    • Press All settings.
    • Press Network & wireless.
    • Press WiFi. and then select Wi-Fi Sense.
    • Turn on/off "Connect to suggested open hotspots".
    • Uncheck "Show a notification banner when action is needed from me".

    Let us know if it works.

     
    Marcel Dio, Sep 8, 2024
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