Upgraded to Win 10 and lost wifi: Upgraded my Alienware laptop from Win 7 to Win 10; no problems.....smooth as silk as the expressions goes. Then, upgraded my wife's Dell desktop from...

Vladimir200 Loc: Beaumont, Ca.

Upgraded my Alienware laptop from Win 7 to Win 10; no problems.....smooth as silk as the expressions goes. Then, upgraded my wife's Dell desktop from Win 7 to Win 10. Again, fantastic; no problems and I do like Win 10.

Then, I thought, what the heck. I grabbed an old HP laptop with Win 7........which, btw I never or rarely use, and upgraded it to Win 10. Wifi gone or least partially gone. Let me explain: The wifi recognizes a few wifi but none of them mine. Meanwhile, my other two Win 10 machines are still recognizing my wifi.

I checked the UHH search for Win 10 and found no problems like mine. Also, I Googled and tried some of their suggestions to no avail.

So, then I reverted back to Win 7 on the HP. Wifi still missing. No problem if I never use the retired HP laptop again.....but it is bugging me.

Any suggestions? Thanks !

twowindsbear

Have you modified your wi-fi since you last used that computer? Have you tried to 'reconnect' to your wi-fi?

Bill_de Loc: US

I think the HP website would be a better place to look for answers. They have/had a 'how to' for upgrading their computers to Win 10. I did two with no issues.

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Vladimir200 Loc: Beaumont, Ca.

twowindsbear wrote:

Have you modified your wi-fi since you last used that computer? Have you tried to 'reconnect' to your wi-fi?

No, I did not modify. And, to reconnect to my wifi, the HP would have to recognize all wifis within range and then I would "click" onto the wifi that was mine and I'd have to enter the info such as password, WPA2 info, etc. But, to my chagrin, it does not even "recognize" my wifi name (which is FIOS, then some letters, etc) so that I can click onto it and make changes.

Vladimir200 Loc: Beaumont, Ca.

Bill_de wrote:

I think the HP website would be a better place to look for answers. They have/had a 'how to' for upgrading their computers to Win 10. I did two with no issues.

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Bill, I did not think of that. I'll try it. Thanks !

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

Win 7 directly to Win 10 is tricky.

kjfishman Loc: Fulton MO

I would try go to hardware settings remove the wifi card and then re-install.If that doesn't work physically remove it and reinstall. You can google instructions on how to physically remove it from your particular device. Usually not that difficult. Or try a USB adapter

The wifi adapter installed in my wife's HP lap top was having problems before I upgraded it to 10 and we were using a USB device in its place. I had to physically remove the on board adapter and the USB adapter and run the upgrade from a wired connection. Then the USB adapter worked fine.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

Win 7 directly to Win 10 is tricky.

Really? Why? Haven't experience that at all. I did have a couple of issues but none were related to either Windows 10 or 7. One was related to Nero software which was resolved, and the other to the lack of a graphics driver on a very old machine, which can stay as W7 till it dies.

Vladimir200 Loc: Beaumont, Ca.

kjfishman wrote:

I would try go to hardware settings remove the wif... (show quote)

kjfishman, I did go to hardware settings and removed wifi and then rebooted. The wifi hardware card then reappeared but still no wifi. However, what I did "not" do was to "physically" R & R the card itself. Good idea and thanks, I will try it. And, if it fails, then I will do what you did and consider a USB adapter in its place. Since I don't use the HP laptop often, the USB solution would work fine. Again, thanks.

bdk Loc: Sanibel Fl.

You would probably want to remove or delete your wireless
network connection, then shut the computer off then on then go in and have it look for a connection again.
sometimes when installing new software the settings get mixed up
Go to Proxy server, Lan settings, click automatically detect,then unclick any others , Ive had that problem in the past..

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

Vladimir200 wrote:

kjfishman, I did go to hardware settings and removed wifi and then rebooted. The wifi hardware card then reappeared but still no wifi. However, what I did "not" do was to "physically" R & R the card itself. Good idea and thanks, I will try it. And, if it fails, then I will do what you did and consider a USB adapter in its place. Since I don't use the HP laptop often, the USB solution would work fine. Again, thanks.

Or, if you can identify the brand and model of the wifi component (HP probably just installed somebody else's chips) you may be able to find a Win 10 driver from the original manufacturer.

I had a similar problem (when still on Win 7) with a generic USB 3.0 card, and the driver disk was damaged. Initially it didn't work, but once I worked out that I needed the Renesas drivers I could get them from the Renesas website, install them and woosh, USB 3.0. Works fine under Windows 10.

Good luck

kjfishman Loc: Fulton MO

Vladimir200 wrote:

kjfishman, I did go to hardware settings and removed wifi and then rebooted. The wifi hardware card then reappeared but still no wifi. However, what I did "not" do was to "physically" R & R the card itself. Good idea and thanks, I will try it. And, if it fails, then I will do what you did and consider a USB adapter in its place. Since I don't use the HP laptop often, the USB solution would work fine. Again, thanks.

One more note, I did not reinstall the on-board adapter.

wolfman

My question is, what does this have to do with photography?

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

wolfman wrote:

My question is, what does this have to do with photography?

Have you tried doing photography without using a computer recently? On UHH you can't even talk about photography without using a computer, let alone do any post processing.

Computers are as much a part of the workflow as cameras are, and cameras are computers today!

wolfman

Peterff wrote:

Have you tried doing photography without using a computer recently? On UHH you can't even talk about photography without using a computer, let alone do any post processing.

Computers are as much a part of the workflow as cameras are, and cameras are computers today!

The Op is talking wi-fi here, which has absolutely nothing to do with photography or PP.