Windows 10: No wifi networks appearing after turning off autoconfiguration for wifi.

Hi all,


I was having large ping spikes for a long time and I finally fixed it after entering this into command promptnetsh wlan set autoconfig enabled=no interface="Wireless Network Connection"


This fixed the issue, but after entering it no wifi networks were appearing so I couldn't connect to any.


Putting in netsh wlan show networks said that "Visible networks cannot be displayed because auto configuration has been disabled on the interface". I would like to be able to discover wifi networks whilst not having the ping spikes that turning off auto configuration fixed. I am using a USB wifi adapter, though I don't think it's an issue with that because I have had the same issue with 2 different USB wifi adapters.


Please help!


Regards, Riley.

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