Windows 10: “Cannot connect to this network” Wi-Fi error

I’ve been facing this extremely weird wifi connectivity issue on my Windows 10 system.

It’s a 2.4 Ghz connection setup with WPA2-PSK and AES. When I try to connect to it, it gives me the “Cannot connect to this network” issue.

General questions:

1. Did I try all the basic things? Restart / reconfigure / reinstall — Yes. To no avail.
2. Did I try more complex solutions? ipconfig / netsh related stuff. Yes. To no avail.
3. Did I try changing router / modem settings and see if it works? Yes. To no avail.

Why is it weird?

Well ..

1. Every other device on my network can connect to it. No problems at all.
2. My windows 10 device also connects to it. Randomly though. I can’t seem to figure out why it connects rarely and why it doesn’t connect most of the time.
3. Strangely enough the WiFi connection doesn’t show up on my available networks list automatically. I need to press connect on another network and then press cancel for my own network to show up with full strength.

I’m kind of lost on solutions because it does randomly connect now and then and stays connected. But if it disconnects, it keeps giving me this error. Unsure what to do to actually fix it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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