Thursday, August 30, 2018

Fixing Network Adapter Issue in Laptops

I woke up this morning to find my laptop was not displaying wifi. Under network adapters, I could not find any wireless adapters.

These are the steps I took to fix it -

0. Before you troubleshoot, try windows troubleshooting.

1. Explore device manager. Scan for hardware changes, reinstall drivers if you wireless network adapter has a yellow question mark on it.

2. Restore computer to an old restore point. (This is in case you have created a restore point)

3. Find updated wireless driver on the support website for your laptop. Try installing that.

4. And this is what fixed it for me - as shown in the screenshot below, go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program. Find your wireless adapter software and hit change. Then do a repair.


5. Last option would be to reset your windows (if you are on Windows 10)

One of the above should hopefully work for you.
Best of luck 

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