Windows 10: Can installing new adapter drivers turn on wireless capabilities?

Can installing new adapter drivers turn on wireless

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wireless capability is turned off

Try This.

Enabling Wireless in Windows 7 / Vista

1. Click on Start. It's in the lower-left corner of the screen.
2. Click on Control Panel.
3. Click on Network and Internet.
4. Click on Network and Sharing Center.
5. Click on Change adapter settings. ...
6. Right-click on Wireless Connection.
7. Click on Enable.

 

Cannot turn on wireless adapter after clean install of Win10

A couple years ago I upgraded my brother's Lenovo T420 Thinkpad from Win7 to Win10. All went well. No issues at all. Skip to present. For some reason the system would not boot to Windows. I opted to do a clean install. That went without issue, except now I cannot seem to turn on the wireless adapter / radio.

• Windows Wifi settings radio is ON
• Checked physical switch on side - ON
• Checked BIOS - Nothing there
• Checked Wireless ON/Off function key. They seem to work with other functions. Just do not turn on or off the wireless radio.
• Went to Intel website and installed latest driver for the adapter
• Went to Lenovo website. They do not offer Windows 10 support/driver etc for this model. When I try using their automated scanner to select the correct drivers and utilities it locks up. I assume because I am running Win10 and Win10 is not supported.
• Since the original WIn7 x64 drivers and utilities worked before I was going to manually download and install, but their nomenclature is confusing. Software is listed Thinkpad, Laptop, Desktop, ThinkCentre. This is a Thinkpad laptop. Which do I download?

The bottom line is that the wireless adapter worked fine after upgrade from Win7, but will not turn on since the clean install of Win10.

Does anyone have any suggestions other than tell my brother I broke his laptop *Eek

 

turn on wireless capability

I'm running Windows 7 on my laptop and have recently had troubles connecting to Wi-Fi. The problem found is 'Wireless capability is turned off'. I've checked the adapter is enabled, rebooted, re-installed the driver, tried installing a new driver (compatable
with windows 7) and have tried a system restore but still having no luck and getting the same error.

its shows red cross on wireless and don't detect any network

System model HP Pavalion g6 2202tx notebook pc

Any more ideas would be much appreciated.

Thanks