Windows 10: Windows 11 taskbar freeze when wifi connect fail.

I'm experiencing an issue the taskbar hang when I fail to connect to Wi-Fi. While restarting "Windows Explorer" is an easy workaround, I would like to understand the root cause of this problem. Could you please help investigate?Test environment- Lenovo X13 gen3, E14 Gen5 with intel wifi- Windows 11 23H2, 24H2- Wi-Fi Meraki with RADIUS server authen and WPA2 ent security

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Can't connect my laptop to the wifi and taskbar crashes

I'm currently having a problem with my HP laptop 17-cn0013dx, where it doesn't want to display wifi connections plus the taskbar crashes and freezes. The first thing happened when I opened my laptop and no wifi connections were showing up, thinking it simply needed a reroot, I did that. It didn't help as the taskbar freezes and crashes if it's clicked over and over. Already did some of the basic steps, to restart the taskbar, didn't work. Did all the steps to repair and scan the drive, it didn't detect anything or spot a problem. Did a sfc/scannow and didn't detect nothing. Is it the wifi adapter or harddrive failure? Please help.

 

WINDOWS 11 - BLANK WHITE TASKBAR WHEN CONNECTING AND OPENING AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE

Hi, I'm Anvar, I'd be glad to help you today on this

The file explorer or taskbar freezes while connecting an external drive indicates a hardware problem on the drive connected

suggested to try below steps to isolate the issue

Try on another USB port (a USB 2 port is suggested)

Try on another computer

Try with another USB adapter

Hope this helps.

 

When will the wifi connectivity problems be solved?


OK, so the Windows 10 engineers bollixed up the wifi connectivity part of the operating system. Everybody knows that by now. It seems they are making some progress in resolving it. Now, instead of seeing "Secured, No Internet" on your list of wifi connections, you see "Connected, Secured" EXCEPT no webpages will load. So you really aren't connected. It does seem to be a step in the right direction. Does anybody know when they plan on a full and complete repair of this screw up of epic proportions?