Windows 10: Window 10 keeps ticking box which shuts down my wi -fi to save power

Hi,
Ex primary school headteacher and musician. Been using computers since they were first introduced in primary schools.
Registered today in the hope of inding somehelp to problem wih lap top.

Happy New Year

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Hi Help needed please

running windows 10 on an acer travel mate laptop.

Window 10 keeps ticking the box which shuts down my wi -fi to save power. Can I switch this off permenantly. I switch it off and it comes back on.

I have quite a problem resetting the wifi.

when I check the AVG secure VPNit tells me it needs futher installing. ~~~~Device ROOT\NET\0000 requires further installation.

When I check the WIFI adapter it also tells me it needs further installation. -----------

Device PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4727&SUBSYS_E042105B&REV_01\4&3265adab&0&00E1 requires further installation.

Cannot work out how to get around this.

Frusration level is very high!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any help would be appreciated...

The musican.

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Aggressive Wi-Fi power saving on the phone

Hi,

I am using HTC 7 Mozart and have a question about power saving methods when a Wi-Fi signal is available. I use this device mostly at work where I keep connected through Exchange, Sharepoint and other corp resources. I use Wi-Fi to reach the corporate intranet.
I can see that HTC is rather aggressive in shutting down the Wi-Fi interface and dropping the connection. I did some debugging and here are my observations:

• When Wi-Fi is switched on, the phone gets connected to WPA2 enterprise cleanly.
• It is then able to send and recieve traffic from all intranet resources. I was able to ping the phone through the IP address it got on the network
• When the phone goes into the standby mode, I can see the phone dropping the Wi-Fi connection. Looking at the Wi-Fi packets, I can see that the phone sends a disassciation frame to the wi-fi infrastructure.
• I believe the phone shuts down its wi-fi interface afterwards and no traffic goes through.

It is rather painful because I have to frequenly wake the phone up, go to Outlook and hit the sync button. Only then would the phone download all the messages. At this time, I can again see the phone initiating connection to the infrastructure, go through
WPA2, etc. etc.

Any thoughts, workarounds?

 

Wi-Fi issue after update - Windows 10

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community forum.



I suggest you to follow the steps listed below and check if it works:

1. Right click on the Windows icon on the taskbar and select ‘Device Manager’.
2. Expand ‘Network adapters’ and right click on your Wi-Fi adapter.
3. Select ‘Properties’ and click on the ‘Power Management’ tab.
4. Uncheck the box that says ‘Allow the computer to turn off the device to save power’.
5. Exit ‘Device Manager’ and check if it works.

You may also try the steps listed in fix network connection issues
in Windows 10 and Wi-Fi issues in Windows 10.



Hope it helps.

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Windows 10 stop automatically connecting to random new wi-fi networks

Hi,

I have searched a lot, but all the tutorials I found only explained how to not connect automatically to a known wi-fi network or how to disable wi-fi sense... but this is not what I am looking for...

PROBLEM:

• When my laptop (Windows 10 Pro X64) is not connected to a network and the wireless adapter is on, it will automatically connect to any random new unsecured wi-fi network... The only way I have now to avoid this is to disable my wi-fi adapter.

UNUSEFUL TUTORIALS I FOUND ON THE INTERNET:

• How to manually uncheck the option for a particular wi-fi network not to connect automatically in Network Properties. This is not what I am looking for. This would suggest that everytime I power my computer. I would have to manually go through all the available wi-fi networks and unclick them all...
• How to disable Wi-Fi Sense. This is not useful, because I don't even have a Wi-Fi sense option in my computer where the tutorials say it should be.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR:

• I am looking for an option to tell my computer to stop connecting randomly to unknown wi-fi networks like an hyperactive, reckless idiot.

PERSONAL COMMENT:

• Honestly, why would any respectable company think that it could be somewhat wise or secure to do this... Anyone's computer could just randomly connect to any hacker's wi-fi network without the user even knowing it...

Any solutions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!