lost all wifi on DW's computer,

Bobbo wrote:
That happened to my DW's laptop.
I rebooted. Nada
I disabled then re-enabled the WIFI. Nada
I re-installed the driver. Nada
I finally decided the WIFI card had died. I bought a new one and installed it. Nada.

Finally, I noticed on the keyboard a key with a WIFI tower icon. I thought NO WAY! I held down the FN key and pressed the WIFI tower icon. EUREKA, WIFI WORKED. She has no idea how she had managed to hit the FN key and that WIFI tower key at the same time.

The only good that came from that was that the old WIFI card was B/G and the new card was B/G/N.

This is exactly what happened to me. I've had that laptop for years, but never noticed that wifi key.

FOLLOW UP, I installed new air card and everything is perfect!!!Thanks again for all the response.

JIM - MR WIZARD I finally got into things and finally got to restore to a previous good restore point. All is back to normal now on my WIN10 machine.. I going thru the back doors pays off sometimes haha...

Of course i still don't know what caused the problem but the COMM PORTS and the AUDIO shon on the task bar had RED X's in them and could not find anyway to reset them...

Then playing aorund with WINDOWS mode I got it to go into safe mode and looked at afew things and finally saw where I could goto to the RESTORE place manually. Worked great and took awhile to restore back to to a previous point. Then it asked to RESTART... I crossed both fingers and it worked.. WOO HOO...

Then right away I see I am in SAFE MODE and still had both the COMM PORTS and AUDIO turned off... I had to get back into WINDOWS again and find the block that was checked showing to BOOT in safe mode. FInally found that and unchecked it...

All OK now with WIN10 machine...

I think I will not move everything back to the WIN10 just yet however. I'm up ok on WIN XP right now and doing ok...

Good learning experience for me for WIN10... They sure don't want the average user to find all of these places like the older WIN machines did...

Thanks for the tips - most useful... Only took three cups of coffee...

Happy Camper once again

NOTE: Two hours later and still OK after shutting down which downloaded a bunch of updates... Restarted back up just fine...

Roy Ken

Thank you for all the replies.We ended up taking laptop to staples and technicion said it was the wifi card but they didn't sell them. I took laptop home and went to youtube and sure enough there was a very short simple video "how to change aircard". I have a new aircard on order and will let you know what happens.Again thank you all.

This problem must happen a lot I have had it but not sure how I fixed it lots of help on google.

Sometimes repairing or updating a driver is not enough. I have run into situations of a corrupt driver that had to be deleted, in Device Manager, before it would reinstall correctly. If it is an odd driver, meaning not supported directly in the MS Hardware Control List, you may need to go to a hardwire NIC or download and transfer from another system.

Gdetrailer wrote:
... Since it looks like more than one person on this thread is having the same issue, I suspect yet another UNTESTED MS forced updates has bit YOU in the behind. ...

I must be the luckiest person alive. I've been running Windows 10 since the very first Consumer Preview, on multiple machines. I even have the very latest Insider Preview. All updates have been installed along the way. Not once have these forced updates ever bit me in the behind.

Why do you persist in trying to claim that these updates are untested? It's such a preposterous claim.

harley-dave wrote:

Bobbo wrote:


Finally, I noticed on the keyboard a key with a WIFI tower icon. I thought NO WAY! I held down the FN key and pressed the WIFI tower icon. EUREKA, WIFI WORKED. She has no idea how she had managed to hit the FN key and that WIFI tower key at the same time.

Oh ya, my Wife and I have have done this on both our Dells. WIFI works perfectly soon as you turn the WIFI back on using the WIFI key (FN F2). When its off it is completely off and cannot be changed in setup.

Dave

Yeppers. On my Dell it is FN PrtScr.

Bobbo wrote:


Finally, I noticed on the keyboard a key with a WIFI tower icon. I thought NO WAY! I held down the FN key and pressed the WIFI tower icon. EUREKA, WIFI WORKED. She has no idea how she had managed to hit the FN key and that WIFI tower key at the same time.

Oh ya, my Wife and I have have done this on both our Dells. WIFI works perfectly soon as you turn the WIFI back on using the WIFI key (FN F2). When its off it is completely off and cannot be changed in setup.

Dave

I rv wrote:
wife will explain.
I run Windows 10. We use a Verizon wireless "JetPac" connection. Yesterday, I wanted to print a letter and discovered that my Wifi connection was gone. Under Internet Properties: Connections, I can see "Verizon Wireless-VZAccess" It appears to be a dial-up???
I tried to use "Manually set up a new wireless connection", and got an "Unexpected error occured" message. Thank you in advance for any help or advice!!

Since it looks like more than one person on this thread is having the same issue, I suspect yet another UNTESTED MS forced updates has bit YOU in the behind.

You are most likely going to NEED to find a WIRED connection then see if MS has issued a "fix" update.. The last time MS borked the wireless connections the only way to fix was direct wired or time to do a full reinstall.

If your PC doesn't have a wired Ethernet NIC card you can buy USB to Ethernet cards to get around that.

Before going through a full reinstall I would suggest checking the WiFI security properties first.. Fair chance that if it was a update it may have altered your security settings..