My laptop performs well all day . Turning off overnight and next morning have great difficulty connecting to wifi. No prob with our other devices. Play around with it trying things and suddenly it connects. Any ideas why it doesn't stay connected.

cary14 - 2021-07-21 11:11:00

Try this: Instead of turning it off as such HIBERNATE it - you'll find this option on the shut down menu. This does indeed turn it off BUT in such a way as to save every activity 'in situ' so to speak. For example if you have something running, (say a virus scan, or you're in the middle of writing a letter, or whatever), and you hibernate the computer then when you start it up again those things will still be on the screen and will resume exactly where they left off as if there had been no break in the use of the machine. Thus also it'll connect to your wifi instantly without any intervention from you. Also it'll start up a LOT quicker.

The only time you should need to actually 'properly' shut down and then later restart is if theres some system or program update which requires it.

nice_lady - 2021-07-21 14:37:00

I bow to nice_lady's superior knowledge, but as a matter of safety, I prefer to totally switch off as I usually run the laptop connected to the mains.

Occasionally, mine doesn't connect to the WiFi either, but I either go into Flight Mode, or disconnect from the network, then reconnect. Usually OK after that.

If not, switch off and restart. I have far more of a problem with the cheap Android phone dropping out now and again, at home.

socram - 2021-07-21 14:51:00

You could try going to the wireless network driver in the device manager, right click the wireless network adapter > Properties > power management > untick the 'allow the computer to turn off this device to save power' > ok. See if that does anything.

muppet_slayer - 2021-07-21 15:40:00

socram wrote:

I bow to nice_lady's superior knowledge, but as a matter of safety, I prefer to totally switch off as I usually run the laptop connected to the mains.

errr perhaps you didn't understand ? Hibernate DOES indeed totally switch the machine off. In the process it writes all currenly running processes from RAM onto the hard drive then picks them up when you restart the pc....

ETA: A quick read on the internet descriptions of Hibernate - even Microsoft say "Hibernate uses less power than Sleep".........well YEAH ......that might be because when the system is hibernated it's SHUT OFF completely. They're just muddying the waters there. You could hibernate your pc for 1000 years and it will use ZERO power during that time as it's entirely shut off - and then when you restart it every running process/app/program whatever will be exactly in the state it was at the time you Hibernated it. And it doesn't take a lot of time to restart as all the crap you see in the lower right hand corner of the screen which is the icons representative of what's running will load pretty much instantly and be up and running immediately as soon as you log into Windoze.

Personally I use Hibernate all the time.

Edited by nice_lady at 4:33 pm, Wed 21 Jul

nice_lady - 2021-07-21 16:27:00

muppet_slayer wrote:

You could try going to the wireless network driver in the device manager, right click the wireless network adapter > Properties > power management > untick the 'allow the computer to turn off this device to save power' > ok. See if that does anything.

Well that's a good plan and I'd reccomend that anyway in general use but in this case the OP has an issue when restarting after shutdown.

nice_lady - 2021-07-21 16:28:00

nice_lady wrote:

Well that's a good plan and I'd reccomend that anyway in general use but in this case the OP has an issue when restarting after shutdown.

Check the WLAN driver version then and make sure the latest one is being used.

muppet_slayer - 2021-07-21 20:01:00

nice_lady wrote:

errr perhaps you didn't understand ? Hibernate DOES indeed totally switch the machine off. In the process it writes all currenly running processes from RAM onto the hard drive then picks them up when you restart the pc....

ETA: A quick read on the internet descriptions of Hibernate - even Microsoft say "Hibernate uses less power than Sleep".........well YEAH ......that might be because when the system is hibernated it's SHUT OFF completely. They're just muddying the waters there. You could hibernate your pc for 1000 years and it will use ZERO power during that time as it's entirely shut off - and then when you restart it every running process/app/program whatever will be exactly in the state it was at the time you Hibernated it. And it doesn't take a lot of time to restart as all the crap you see in the lower right hand corner of the screen which is the icons representative of what's running will load pretty much instantly and be up and running immediately as soon as you log into Windoze.

Personally I use Hibernate all the time.

Surely that is just a quick patch up for a real problem with the WLAN driver or physical problem with the network adapter. Would pay to find out what is wrong first, fix that, and then use hibernate.

muppet_slayer - 2021-07-21 20:06:00

A good question would be: is this situation better or had it been happening for a long time?

nice_lady - 2021-07-21 20:13:00

nice_lady wrote:

A good question would be: is this situation better or had it been happening for a long time?

Can't be much wrong because they say it suddenly connects and everything is fine until the next boot. I wonder if running the troubleshooter and the fixes it carries out could fix the problem?

muppet_slayer - 2021-07-21 20:18:00

Thanks nice_lady for the explanation.

socram - 2021-07-22 14:34:00