Windows 10: wi-fi on Dell computer with airplane mode active but airplane controls greyed out.

Have a Dell Lattitude E5540 laptop with windows 10. All of sudden wi-fi is in airplane mode and airplane mode controls are greyed out. Trouble shooter no help, says wi-fi is turned off. Device manager says wi-fi adapter is working properly. Disabled device and enabled device with no change. Help!

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Airplane Mode

My Dell laptop with Windows 10 is stuck in airplane mode, cannot use wi-fi only hard line. I have gone to the airplane icon in the toolbar and airplane mode is dim. It will not let me switch it. When I try to activate the wi-fi button next to the airplane
it tries and then turns off. When I go into network settings Airplane mode is turned on but the toggle switch is dim, cannot switch it there either. I am at a loss on how to fix this.

 

Airplane mode with wi-fi

What is actually happening when I have Wi-Fi on with Airplane mode? I can still get web pages so it is communicating with the world wide web, so how is it still "Airplane mode"? Just curious.

 

Windows 10 --- Airplane Mode Will Not Turn Off / Wi-Fi will not turn on

For 3 months I have had the same agonizing problem with wi-fi since upgrading from 8.1 to 10 but I believe I have found the solution! First connect to the internet via ethernet.You may want to try just disabling or uninstalling the airplane mode
switch in the Human Interface Device first.Since I have a Dell laptop I went to Dell.com support did the diagnostic and received a service tag number after that scroll to drivers & downloads, choose the find it myself tab. Notice the list of
driver updates. Before you do any of the updates google or bing (order of driver installation). This list the order in which to download and install the drivers. After this is done you
may still have go in device manager under Human Interface Devices and disable the airplane mode switch or uninsatll it. I uninstalled mine. It showed back in after a reboot but I haven't had any issues with wi-fi connection since. My airplane mode can't turn
on now but my wi-fi is working fine. Yippee! That was the long way around. You may want to try just disabling or uninstalling the airplane mode switch in the Human Interface Device first.