I am trying to change a Toshiba smart tv from Ethernet to Wireless connection.
Model No. 43V6863DB.
I have connected the tv and router via a Ethernet cable.
My PC is on W10 software.
My router has a WPS button.
Can you help me to achieve this please?.
If this does not work still then any ideas. I am on line using my old PC that has windows vista. When I use my new PC with windows 10 it tells me the same password I use to get on this PC is not correct. Then for no apparent reason it may connect for a short time then disconnect? At a campground and they have wi-fi and it has a strong signal but windows 10 following the outline here will either not connect or stay connected. Confused….?????
This is a great tutorial, though my problem is somewhat different. I’m thinking to buy an HP All In One computer that does not have wireless capability built in.
What can I do to connect my would be pc to my network? The adapters I found
so fare, supported by window 7 and 8.1. nothing for windows 10. Do you have any
idea? Thank You!
Microsoft is f**KedUp again! I had not wanted to upgrades but the dam* pop hounded me for days and I succumbed. Now no WiFi …. After research I found and deleted registries. But I still can not find where I can configure WiFi. Apparent they have separated WiFi configuration location from that of network. Can someone please tell me where the location is.
Last time Microsoft hid the familiar start button, now the WiFi. No woder no one want Windows.
can’t believe how badly set up windows 10 is. something as simple as connecting to a network after network changed password is insane. a 10 second job on windows 7 took me 30 minutes to figure out on 10. and no tutorial was helpful. i finally had to tell the computer to “forget” the network and then tried to reconnect – only then did the ssid password show up. in other words, there’s no way to EDIT the wireless settings. you have to tell the damn computer to forget and only then try to connect. so glad i only upgraded my son’s computer to 10. my windows 7 pc will remain 7. 7 was set up so well, and everything after has been a disaster.
Have just tried a solution for the WIFI problem with windows 10 and it worked. I uninstalled the updated driver and returned to old driver that my PC had before the upgrade and it worked
Windows 10 doesn’t appear to support a very normal use case: coffee shop changes wifi password. When I connect, it just errors out and says it can’t connect. There is no obvious way to just enter the new password. I had to forget the network (not easily accessible either, google how to find this on my phone, a decently excessive set of clicks,…) and then reconnect to be able to get to the password prompt… There’s a workaround to make this work, but it took a half hour to get there.
Since updating to Windows 10 my laptop losses the Wi-Fi many times a day and I have to run the trouble shooter and I have received the following: Wireless adapter access point, cannot access default gateway, network cable is not properly plugged in or maybe broken. What do I need to do?
I have bought new HP laptop and installed Windows 10. I am not able to connect to home network (WiFi) after entering security key. I always get message ‘Can’t connect to network’
Hi Amritpal,
Have you tried network troubleshooting?
If not try this
Right click WiFi icon > Network and Sharing center > Change adapter settings > Right click WiFi and select diagnose and follow the prompts.
Most of the problems gets rectified automatically by this trouble shooting.
I am connected to the wifi but I cannot access it at all even though it shows I am connected it doesn’t seem to activate for my other apps like Skype and Spotify . Please tell me how to solve this issue
I installed Windows 10 last week and I had a wireless icon on the tray, bottom R toolbar. When I turned off my computer yesterday and restarted it the icon has disappeared. How can I add the icon back to my tray? I can still get wireless by going through the start button, bottom L, but I prefer the icon.
Hi Debbie,
You can enable the WiFi icon back in the system tray by doing the following.
Click the notification area in your task bar.
then
All settings > Notifications & actions > Quick actions.
From there just click or select the icons you want to appear on the task bar.
Or if the icon doesn’t happen to appear in the list, do the same as above and in Quick actions area click on turn system icons on or off and enable it from there.Hope this works for you. 🙂
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I have been using windows 10 for weeks now with no issues and now all of a sudden it says my network connection is limited and won’t allow me to connect to my WiFi , I have a second computer that I also upgraded and it is running fine. Tried everything to fix it but can’t get WiFi
Hi
Since I installed W10, I have had no problems using my home broadband, but at work, whenever I try to connect to the work wireless broadband on my laptop, the following address is substituted instead of the page which used to come up which allowed me to sign in …. so no access. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=219472&clcid=0x409
Help!
I have Windows 10 and have no problem seeing my network listed in available networks. My problem is that my laptop no longer connects to my home network automatically upon booting up and I have to keep entering my security key to connect. I think I may have inadvertently changed a setting in my network manager that is causing this but can’t figure out what I may have done. Any advice?
This happen to me as well, it wouldn’t let me see the wifi, apparently my wifi adapter was disabled, I just trouble shooted the problem and it enabled my wifi adapter
I have a similar problem to Andreas Karch. I connect to the internet (with Firefox) and it lasts for about 5 minutes. I then try the command prompts and reboot and the connection works again for another 5 minutes. Needless to say I don’t want to keep rebooting every 5 minutes. Any suggestions???
when I wi-fi connect to my router A message pops up and says “other people might be able to see info you send over this network” how to I protect my network? Left clicking does nothing
Hi just upgraded to windows10, trying to connect to my wi-fi network, it won’t show in list of connections, it does though show up in know networks where you can share or forget, also I don’t get the wi-fi and airplane buttons where you show them or anywhere else! Please help!
Codrut, got one for you.
Got windows 10, but I have nothing that pops up for available networks. I connect thru ethernet fine, however my Netgear wireless usb adapter can’t seem to find anything, I even updated the drivers. Any ideas?
I don’t know what is wrong but when I upgraded to windows ten all the sudden my computer can’t connect to wifi and is only Ethernet can I get some help?
I found that I had to go to the device manager control panel (type device manager into the search bar on the right hand side of the task bar at the bottom of your screen). Click on device manager (it may say control panel underneath it). Click on arrow for network adapter to expand your options. Find the one that has wireless in the name, right click and choose update drive. That did it for me.
While I can connect fine to the network, windows 10 disconnects from it about every 5 minutes and makes me type in the password again. I clicked the “automatically connect” button, but windows 10 always makes me reconnect to the network by hand. It also apparently forgets the password. I have two identical computers (Dell Inspiron 14). The second one, which is still running windows 8, does not have this problem with the same wireless network. It remembers the password and stays connected.
Did you by any chance install a driver software for the wireless card, other than the default Windows 10 driver?
Open a Task Manager and check your startup programs. If you have anything there related to your wireless card (like Intel Wireless Manager or Realtek or others), disable it. Then reboot and check if the issue still persists.
The startup programs are only things I can recognize – nothing related to WiFi. I think I fixed the problem by “forgetting” the network and connecting again to it from scratch. I should have tried this earlier. I still don’t understand why I had these problems to begin with, but maybe I shouldn’t care.
No network list comes up and there is no “wireless” button in the tray next to the “airplane mode” button.
Wireless is on, Windows died connect to trusted networks. There are networks in range broadcasting their SSIDs, I just can’t see a list of them or toggle my wireless adapter.
Are you sure that your wireless card is working?
Run a Command Prompt as administrator and execute this command: ipconfig /all. Then post here the results. Maybe we can find more about your problem.
That’s it?
You should also have a section called something like “Wireless LAN Adapter …”.
If you don’t have it, it means the wireless card is not enabled. You must turn it on.
There was a typo in my original post, I meant to say that the computer DOES connect to “trusted” wireless networks (that I set up years ago in Windows 8.)
56 Responses to “How to connect to WiFi from Windows 10”
Out brand new HP AiO connected wirelessly with the old modem/router without a modem PIN. How is that possible?
I am trying to change a Toshiba smart tv from Ethernet to Wireless connection.
Model No. 43V6863DB.
I have connected the tv and router via a Ethernet cable.
My PC is on W10 software.
My router has a WPS button.
Can you help me to achieve this please?.
You totally skipped over if you don’t have a security key.
Does not work. How do you solve the ‘No internet secured’ issue?
If this does not work still then any ideas. I am on line using my old PC that has windows vista. When I use my new PC with windows 10 it tells me the same password I use to get on this PC is not correct. Then for no apparent reason it may connect for a short time then disconnect? At a campground and they have wi-fi and it has a strong signal but windows 10 following the outline here will either not connect or stay connected. Confused….?????
I cant get a password prompt to ask for the security code? Never encountered this before. Suggestions?
This is a great tutorial, though my problem is somewhat different. I’m thinking to buy an HP All In One computer that does not have wireless capability built in.
What can I do to connect my would be pc to my network? The adapters I found
so fare, supported by window 7 and 8.1. nothing for windows 10. Do you have any
idea? Thank You!
Hi, any adapter that is supported by Windows 8.1 should also work in Windows 10.
Microsoft is f**KedUp again! I had not wanted to upgrades but the dam* pop hounded me for days and I succumbed. Now no WiFi …. After research I found and deleted registries. But I still can not find where I can configure WiFi. Apparent they have separated WiFi configuration location from that of network. Can someone please tell me where the location is.
Last time Microsoft hid the familiar start button, now the WiFi. No woder no one want Windows.
can’t believe how badly set up windows 10 is. something as simple as connecting to a network after network changed password is insane. a 10 second job on windows 7 took me 30 minutes to figure out on 10. and no tutorial was helpful. i finally had to tell the computer to “forget” the network and then tried to reconnect – only then did the ssid password show up. in other words, there’s no way to EDIT the wireless settings. you have to tell the damn computer to forget and only then try to connect. so glad i only upgraded my son’s computer to 10. my windows 7 pc will remain 7. 7 was set up so well, and everything after has been a disaster.
I even dont have that wifi button to turn it on
Have just tried a solution for the WIFI problem with windows 10 and it worked. I uninstalled the updated driver and returned to old driver that my PC had before the upgrade and it worked
How do you uninstall windows 10 ?
Windows 10 doesn’t appear to support a very normal use case: coffee shop changes wifi password. When I connect, it just errors out and says it can’t connect. There is no obvious way to just enter the new password. I had to forget the network (not easily accessible either, google how to find this on my phone, a decently excessive set of clicks,…) and then reconnect to be able to get to the password prompt… There’s a workaround to make this work, but it took a half hour to get there.
Since updating to Windows 10 my laptop losses the Wi-Fi many times a day and I have to run the trouble shooter and I have received the following: Wireless adapter access point, cannot access default gateway, network cable is not properly plugged in or maybe broken. What do I need to do?
How can I check to make sure my wireless card is working, I can’t connect to the Wi-Fi.
I have bought new HP laptop and installed Windows 10. I am not able to connect to home network (WiFi) after entering security key. I always get message ‘Can’t connect to network’
Hi Amritpal,
Have you tried network troubleshooting?
If not try this
Right click WiFi icon > Network and Sharing center > Change adapter settings > Right click WiFi and select diagnose and follow the prompts.
Most of the problems gets rectified automatically by this trouble shooting.
I am connected to the wifi but I cannot access it at all even though it shows I am connected it doesn’t seem to activate for my other apps like Skype and Spotify . Please tell me how to solve this issue
I installed Windows 10 last week and I had a wireless icon on the tray, bottom R toolbar. When I turned off my computer yesterday and restarted it the icon has disappeared. How can I add the icon back to my tray? I can still get wireless by going through the start button, bottom L, but I prefer the icon.
Hi Debbie,
You can enable the WiFi icon back in the system tray by doing the following.
Click the notification area in your task bar.
then
All settings > Notifications & actions > Quick actions.
From there just click or select the icons you want to appear on the task bar.
Or if the icon doesn’t happen to appear in the list, do the same as above and in Quick actions area click on turn system icons on or off and enable it from there.Hope this works for you. 🙂
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windows 10 doesn’t remember my network security key I have to reenter it every time I shutdown and restart, my desktop 10 update works fine.
I have been using windows 10 for weeks now with no issues and now all of a sudden it says my network connection is limited and won’t allow me to connect to my WiFi , I have a second computer that I also upgraded and it is running fine. Tried everything to fix it but can’t get WiFi
Hi
Since I installed W10, I have had no problems using my home broadband, but at work, whenever I try to connect to the work wireless broadband on my laptop, the following address is substituted instead of the page which used to come up which allowed me to sign in …. so no access. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=219472&clcid=0x409
Help!
I have Windows 10 and have no problem seeing my network listed in available networks. My problem is that my laptop no longer connects to my home network automatically upon booting up and I have to keep entering my security key to connect. I think I may have inadvertently changed a setting in my network manager that is causing this but can’t figure out what I may have done. Any advice?
This happen to me as well, it wouldn’t let me see the wifi, apparently my wifi adapter was disabled, I just trouble shooted the problem and it enabled my wifi adapter
Same thing happened to me. No wireless adapter. I try to configure the wireless adapter but no adapter is listed
I have a similar problem to Andreas Karch. I connect to the internet (with Firefox) and it lasts for about 5 minutes. I then try the command prompts and reboot and the connection works again for another 5 minutes. Needless to say I don’t want to keep rebooting every 5 minutes. Any suggestions???
when I wi-fi connect to my router A message pops up and says “other people might be able to see info you send over this network” how to I protect my network? Left clicking does nothing
Hi just upgraded to windows10, trying to connect to my wi-fi network, it won’t show in list of connections, it does though show up in know networks where you can share or forget, also I don’t get the wi-fi and airplane buttons where you show them or anywhere else! Please help!
I did but I figured out the problem we have to take our computer in the wireless adapter is not working properly. Thanks any way
Codrut, got one for you.
Got windows 10, but I have nothing that pops up for available networks. I connect thru ethernet fine, however my Netgear wireless usb adapter can’t seem to find anything, I even updated the drivers. Any ideas?
I don’t know what is wrong but when I upgraded to windows ten all the sudden my computer can’t connect to wifi and is only Ethernet can I get some help?
Did you try everything mentioned in the previous comments?
I upgraded to windows 10 and all the wireless networks are listed but I cannot connect to the internet.
I found that I had to go to the device manager control panel (type device manager into the search bar on the right hand side of the task bar at the bottom of your screen). Click on device manager (it may say control panel underneath it). Click on arrow for network adapter to expand your options. Find the one that has wireless in the name, right click and choose update drive. That did it for me.
While I can connect fine to the network, windows 10 disconnects from it about every 5 minutes and makes me type in the password again. I clicked the “automatically connect” button, but windows 10 always makes me reconnect to the network by hand. It also apparently forgets the password. I have two identical computers (Dell Inspiron 14). The second one, which is still running windows 8, does not have this problem with the same wireless network. It remembers the password and stays connected.
Did you by any chance install a driver software for the wireless card, other than the default Windows 10 driver?
Open a Task Manager and check your startup programs. If you have anything there related to your wireless card (like Intel Wireless Manager or Realtek or others), disable it. Then reboot and check if the issue still persists.
The startup programs are only things I can recognize – nothing related to WiFi. I think I fixed the problem by “forgetting” the network and connecting again to it from scratch. I should have tried this earlier. I still don’t understand why I had these problems to begin with, but maybe I shouldn’t care.
🙂 Everything’s OK if it works!
No network list comes up and there is no “wireless” button in the tray next to the “airplane mode” button.
Wireless is on, Windows died connect to trusted networks. There are networks in range broadcasting their SSIDs, I just can’t see a list of them or toggle my wireless adapter.
Are you sure that your wireless card is working?
Run a Command Prompt as administrator and execute this command:
ipconfig /all. Then post here the results. Maybe we can find more about your problem.I get:
Host name…: (my computer’s name)
Primary Dns Suffix…: (blank)
Node Type…: Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled…: No
WINS Proxy Enabled…: No
Thank you for your help.
That’s it?
You should also have a section called something like “Wireless LAN Adapter …”.
If you don’t have it, it means the wireless card is not enabled. You must turn it on.
That’s it.
There was a typo in my original post, I meant to say that the computer DOES connect to “trusted” wireless networks (that I set up years ago in Windows 8.)
Try from the Settings app. Go to Network & Internet -> WiFi.
When I go to settings> network & internet, I get the following list:
Airplane Mode
Data Usage
VPN
Dial-up
Proxy
I don’t see an item named “WiFi”
Launch a Command Prompt as administrator and try these commands:
reg delete HKCRCLSID{988248f3-a1ad-49bf-9170-676cbbc36ba3} /va /f
press Enter
netcfg -v -u dni_dne
press Enter
Then close Command Prompt, reboot your computer and check WiFi again.
When I enter the first line, I get:
ERROR: Invalid key name.
Ah… sorry. I misspelled the command. It should be:
reg delete HKCRCLSID{988248f3-a1ad-49bf-9170-676cbbc36ba3} /va /fNow I get:
ERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value.
…Maybe I am in the wrong directory. Thank you again for your patience.
Codrut,
My issue is solved!
I did a Google search for the command you provided me and found a discussion about them and what they do/are for.
I didn’t have the Cisco VPN client that that particular registry item came from, but I did remember that I had a disabled VPN Chrome extension.
I went to my Chrome settings, deleted the extension, rebooted, and now I have a list of networks broadcasting their SSIDs!
Thank you very much for your help, I am a relatively new Windows user and you helped me on multiple levels!
I’m glad you managed to resolve the issue!
where shouldI check for WiFi? I have done delete but do not see anywhere any reference to WiFi.
I have rhe same problem pls help