How to Fix Wi-Fi Not Connecting Automatically on Windows Startup?

When I click on the Wi-Fi icon, all my neighbors Wi-Fi are there but not my own! Note that every one in the house are connect to my own Wi-FI without any problems: PC running Win8,XP, Cell phone, wireless printer , ect. What in the world is this crapping windows 10? and what is the solution please?
Note again: If I go to the router and reset it, it now appear in the list and I can now connect. That append just whit this windows 10. That is weird, I’m getting crazy!!!

Followed all the steps, still does not auto connect when I turn on the PC…

I got stuck at step 2, because when I click on the WiFi icon in the taskbar, the listed dialogue of “Advanced Options” and “Manage WiFi Settings” does not exist.

I can’t forget the network because I can’t find Manage known networks, it simply is not there. There is only Wi-Fi sense and Paid Wi-Fi services.

Kevin, I recently purchased an Ellipsis 8 Tablet from Verizon and am having difficulty connecting it to my AT&T 802 LG router. It says poor signal strength and no connectivity. my desk top HP Pavilion has no problem connecting to same modem. I recently upgraded to Windows 10 and now i can’t see the signal strength graph like before. In settings, manage wi-fi settings, manage known networks, should I share or not? right now it is on not share and I’m not sure if that is the problem or not. I can place the Tablet next to the modem and it still says poor signal strength.

Thank you Kevin the registry entry worked for me. I was in the middle of watching a video and hit the wifi button by accident instead of the volume button and ever since then it would not connect automatically on startup.

The registry bit worked. Thanks! It’s really strange that you have to mess with registry to allow such simple thing. At least in w7 it just worked.

MickeySoft has ticked me off with numerous things like this in ALL their versions of windows, office product. They can fix them, but, they refuse, leaving customers in a place of stupid. Win 10 after all the fixes in – still refuses to auto-connect with remembered wifi spots.

I run an almost brand new ASUS desktop that came preinstalled with win 10. I download hardwired with an ethernet cable, wonderfully stupid Microsoft wipes the lan driver each time they push out their dopey windows 10 updates…..have to reinstall the drivers…..wifi drivers are not affected.

I don’t like to block updates…..so the same windows 10 updates occurred again after I rolled back and this time afterwards I couldn’t connect either wireless or via Ethernet.
ASUS customer support was excellent, tech walked me thru multiple fix attempts, finally resetting BIOS to default and restarting modem enabled my desktop to connect to the internet. Then I had to reinstall the LAN driver so my wired connection would work.
not sure if this is unique to ASUS this microsoft crap makes me want to buy an iMac.

Is there a registry entry that can make Windows 10 auto connect to its Ethernet LAN adapter? I get frequent power outages, the system is set to auto boot after power failures, but the DSL (C1000A) modem takes like 3 to 5 minutes to reconnect to the internet. Once reconnected my machine NEVER auto connects. I must reboot the machine even though the internet is already active. I can auto connect if I use the network diagnosis feature, proof that the system can auto connect without reboot, but it needs to continuously try to auto connect after a power failure on its own. I can’t be with this machine 24/7. Why do they make it to where you can auto connect to WIFI internet but NOT Ethernet LAN networks?

Regedit fixed my problem. Thanks for the tip!

I love how even after all these years….

Microsoft STILL HAVENT FIXED THE ***** WIFI CONNECTION ISSUES.

We still have ‘Heres how to fix your connection issues/ip conflicts/unerect penis’ coupled with ‘its totally your fault. not microsoft, you.

Its ***** not. Ive had the exact same issues ive always had on several machines across all versions of windows ive always had.

These ***** want to force crap broken updates onto my machine yet i still cant go a couple of days without a good hour or so of ‘connected’ ‘not connected’ ‘there are no connections’ ‘you do not have a wifi card installed’ rinse and ***** repeat.

So sick of this ***** . (Lol two more drop outs as i write this. Oh and this time its the good ol ‘connection shows, but it totally has no reception what so ever’

Does the registry solution works for win 10 64?

Hey Kevin, I am about to try these steps but I have a more commercial use case where I can’t afford to have the wifi in my computers around the country stay offline. If I needed a better commercial solution for keeping mini pc’s running W10, could this help for that?

Hi Kevin. I am facing a more commercial issue with many PC’s running windows 10. I rely on min computers to stay connected all the time and to reconnect when possible. Is there a better more reliable method you can suggest for my need? The wifi doesn’t seem as stable as needed because they always need to stay connected in order to receive the data I send it from my platform.

The registry thing fixed the issue ! Great ! A reboot was necessary.

I solved the problem very easily.
1. Within the device manager, under VIEW, choose “show hidden devices”
2. disabled the “microsoft wifi direct virtual adapter”
3. disable the “microsoft hosted network virtual adapter”
4. restart

The “power” thing worked for me. It was shutting off power to my adapter and taking it’s sweet time waking back up.

OK, i have tried EVERYONE of these. I still have the exact problem that I started with before paying for the software, tho it did help with other things. I have played with EVERY single setting that can turn anything off and not a single thing has changed. It tends to happen when there are long moments of inactivity – mainly overnight. This is about page number 30 of different settings that I have changed. Can anyone help?

Strangely, the only way I could get mine to connect at turn on was to to tick the box Allow Computer To Turn Off This Device To Save Power. The reverse of what you would expect.

I have tried everything on this first page including comments, and nothing works.

During 2 years of same ISP and router I used Win 7 64-bit (with 3 external wifi antennas) and two different mobile phones, and never had issues. After I bought a new computer with Win 10 64-bit (and internal wifi) I get disconnected several times each day, and it never reconnects. I even bought the stupid program, it found wifi / internet issues but that did not fix it, and it was just money wasted.

I would go Linux (Mint), but I play World of Warcraft.

You could add more to the section Regarding Network adapters. Before you open that choice in the menu, go above to View, and choose “show hidden files”. Then when you click on the Network Adapters, you get a huge list, rather than a small one. Click every single adapter, in turn, and see if it has the “Power Management” tab as shown above. If it has a tab, open it and uncheck all boxes regarding allowing it to turn off the ‘device’. I discovered one of these was allowing my IP address to fall out, and requiring me to restart my Laptop, in order to get a new one assigned, if I left it alone for a nap, or whatever. It worked like a charm until the last update from Microscrew. gotta check it again.

Registry solution worked perfectly, thanks so much, I’d tried a few things before and actually gave up last time but thought I’d give it one more shot.

Yep – Hacking the registry was the answer to fix this problem. Presumably the latest Win10 update had removed the GroupPolicy key (well done MS!). Thanks Kevin.

The registry bit worked , great, and on my desktop and laptop, Thanks

thank you so much!

I tried all of these. The registry edit worked for a couple restarts, but now i’m back to the same problem. It is back to not auto-connecting. So it’s on to the unenviable task of posting the problem in the MS forum where some call center keyboard lackey will post cut and paste responses that aren’t even related to the question asked. How can MS Screw up something so simple and essential?

I did everything on this page at once and it worked, also changed Device Manager> 802.11ac> properties> advanced> Property: Minimum Power consumption ~ Value: Disabled
So i dont know what part of this worked but it fixed it 😀

Thanks for your posts. I disabled the Microsoft wifi virtual adapter and now my 4 year old laptop automatically connects to my dual modem again. Thanks. Side note, I had unticked the Power Mgmt to allow the wifi to poer save. I kept getting booted off my wifi because of that setting.

Tried regedit approach, didn’t work right away after restart. windows still needed a couple minutes before automatically connecting to wifi. then i tried disabling the microsoft wifi direct virtual adapter, and when i restarted my machine instantly connected to the saved wifi connection. Thanks Kevin.

I am having the same problem in windows 10 but i solved it by resetting TSP/IP. luckly it worked.

Also, I seem to remember an option in Settings that turns off the “Let windows manage…” setting. Something like that. Anyone know where that is?

Outstanding. I’ve been fighting this battle for a while now, and your reg key did the trick. Thank you very much!!!

The network troubleshooter identified the Ethernet port as being the problem (not connected, duh! ya think?). I ended up having to disable the adapter in device manager and then my WIFI would reconnect automatically.

Just wanted to thank you for illustrating how to get Windows 10 to connect to the Wifi. Been fighting this for a long time….such a relief to have it FIXED!!! Many many thanks.

I tried all of the suggested methods + more from all google results with no joy.
Windows 10 1809 64bit – Ethernet Connected with PCI-E Wi-Fi card.
I finally managed to get it to work using the following.

Config this settings via Group Policy Editor:

Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Network -> Windows Connection Manager -> “Minimize the number of simultaneous connections to the Internet or a Windows Domain” to “Disable”.

Thanks.
Creating a new DWORD in Registry editor was the solution for my windows 10 to connect automatically.

Disabling Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter worked for me. Thanks heaps for the help!

this fixed my dads problem, thanks to all contributors! <3

This problem still exists with a fresh install of Win 10 1903. The registry fix worked for me.

I had this same problem with Windows 10. The only thing that worked was the registry edit.

Is their any option in windows 10 or router configuration ?? what is that means when i connected one router if it is giving poor connection then it will connect automatically to another router in same network .!!

Just make sure you are not on public network. Switch to private network allows reconnect automatically. Works for me.

Yes it does but there is a glitch which prevents that from happening in some cases

He might mean the “Mobile Hotspot” option and the “Turn on Remotely” toggle in that setting

Disabling Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter (Post 1709 Update) – or – Enabling Computer to put Wi-Fi to Sleep (Post 1709 Update) – worked for me, I did both before restarting. Problem solved, much obliged.

You can try to uninstall the updates and see if it helps his case.

First of all, Try this:
1. Within the device manager, under VIEW, choose “show hidden devices”
2. disabled the “microsoft wifi direct virtual adapter”
3. disable the “microsoft hosted network virtual adapter”
Since the problem varies from people to people, there isn’t a definite fix for this issue since it isn’t officially recognized in any update note. So if an update didn’t cause this, I’d suggest you perform a clean install of Windows and it might fix the problem. But do this only if it bothers you a lot. Cheers

Yea np, do tell if they work because sometimes even if other systems are working alright with the same configs, Windows just breaks things on its own either through updates or through incompatibilities with other applications. Therefore, the best thing is to try to find workarounds or just live with it until maybe an update fixes it.

It could’ve fixed itself because in some (Rare) cases windows tends to fix itself by updating.

I’ve tried all above and nothing helped. Every boot up I have to manually click to connect to my router…every time. Very annoying. These windows updates should corrupt things that worked previously.

Intermittent problems are the hardest to resolve. Ask an electrician ! lol

I had tried everything above except 1 thing. Nothing worked. Tried different drivers. Same issue would not auto connect. The thing I originally did not try was to ENABLE the computer to turn OFF the device to save power- because that just seemed plain backward to me- well finally I tried it- and it worked! Well lesson learned. An easy step, no matter how illogical, is low hanging fruit when it comes to fixing windows issues.

Clear to the last option it says it cant do the task because something else is running but nothing else is running! Why do they make this so complicated?! Gates can burn in hell.

Registry editor solution worked for me in 2021

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Enabling the ” put wifi to sleep” did it on my Lenovo B50 , my problem was that the wireless adaptor was enabled but didnt connect automatically to the network, had to disable-enable manually then it would work . Thank you very much

have to say this has bugged me for ages……in fairness I am hardwired all the time biut its nice to know the Wifi is there inc ase the cable drops out for whatever reason.~
The regedit fix did the trick so thanks very muc and thanks to the comment below explaining the shortcut to doing so