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Win10 fix for no wifi networks.
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I just got a refurbished Dell XPS 13 (9360) about a week ago. All was going good until yesterday when I noticed
that there were no longer any wireless networks available when I tried to connect. I checked device manager and
the "Killer Wireless-n/a/ac 1535 Wireless Network Adapter" had an X in the icon indicating it had failed. Removing
the device (not deleting the driver) and rebooting fixed the driver error BUT there were still no wifi networks
showing when I clicked the Network icon in the tray.
After a bit of Googling, I finally ran into the following article:
https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/solved-wifi-network-not-showing-up-on-computer/
The second method (Method 2: Turn on WLAN AutoConfig service) was the answer to my problems. In my case, the Windows
service "WLAN AutoConfig" was not running. It was also set to "Manual" for some reason. After starting the service
without any errors and setting the "Startup type" to "Automatic", this fixed my issue.
I also updated the driver from the Dell Support web-site. That alone did not fix my issue but the above service did.
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