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Resetting Windows WiFi is quite a good option when wireless is not working. Indeed, “network reset” will does help if there are network issues. What if after doing “network reset” comes with another issue? For example, after doing network reset the Wireless option on the taskbar is unable to find or see the available WiFi networks. If Windows 10 is unable to find available WiFi or does not show wireless SSID available networks after network reset, then it could be that some services are not running or were set to “Manual” and did not run automatically after reset. Therefore, the service or services has to be started manually to run or enable the service. Screenshot below shows how to do a network reset on Windows 10. Press Windows key + I, on the search box type “network reset” and from the drop-down result, choose “network reset”. The system will ask to reboot or might reboot immediately. So, save files that needs to be saved before doing network reset.   After “ne...

How to check network adapters for error? How to whether network device is working properly? How to diagnose specific errors in network adapters? How to check whether network device driver registry is corrupted? To all of the questions above, PowerShell will come to the rescue. In Windows Task Scheduler the only thing you want to see 0X0, which basically means operation has completed successfully. Other than 0X0 means something went wrong and needs to hone your troubleshooting skills. For network adapters it goes the same way as well. PowerShell script below reads the Windows  Configuration Manager error code and display specific errors for network adapters issue. Below is the table from MSDN that shows values for Windows Configuration Manager errors. MSDN link:   https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-s/library/aa394216%28v=vs.85%29.aspx#properties Windows Configuration Manager error code. Value Meaning 0 (0x0) Device is...

Wireless connection or Wi-Fi connection gives easy convenience for moving Laptop computers inside the house or even in the office without losing internet connection. If there are two or more Laptop computers and one of them is not able to connect to the internet or wireless connection, then for this kind of scenario the wireless router is working properly. Since other Laptop computers is able to connect to the Internet or Wi-Fi connection. But if all of the wireless devices or laptop computers are not able to connect to the internet then it can be roll out that the router itself is having issues. Troubleshooting wireless router is beyond the scope of this topic. How to check or troubleshoot wireless connection issues? Windows has a built-in wizard that will help to troubleshoot or check wireless issues. A basic step to troubleshoot Wi-Fi or wireless connection if not working is to check: - check if the wireless driver is installed properly or check whether the wireless ...

All commands below should be type on a command prompt. Netsh can be used to view wireless networks using command line. To view wireless networks via command line type this command:         netsh wlan show networks To view wireless profiles, or the history of the wireless networks in which your computer had made a connection. Type this command below,  if you’ve been travelling you will might be surprise of the long list:       netsh wlan show profiles To view your wireless drivers, type this command below:         netsh wlan show drivers If you want a long list, type this command:                   netsh wlan show all You can redirect the output to text file like:         Netsh wlan show all > MyWirelessLongListInfo.txt And  to connect via command line to a wireless network use...