Windows 7 cannot see the wireless hotspot suddenly

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

I have been facing this problem for quite sometime now. to be honest, it’s pretty annoying. I work on my Dell Latitude D820 laptop & after a while the internet goes down & Windows cannot find the hotspot at all.

What happens is Windows shuts down the hardware device in order to save power. So what you need to do is simply prevent the windows from doing so as below:

1. Go to Device Manager

2. Locate your wireless adapter –> Right click –> Properties.

3. Go to Power Management tab & uncheck the option “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.”

If this solution doesn’t work. Try "manually” disabling and enabling the wireless adapter.

Also, the steps above did work for my Bluetooth adapter as it wasn’t able to find my Bluetooth headphones.

Tags Tips Microsoft

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