Prevent sleep mode from turning off WiFi adapter?

Rollback and restart your computer and see whether Power Management reappears.

Just within the last week or two, so I'm guessing that a Windows 10 update is the culprit, when my laptop goes into sleep mode, which it does dozens of times throughout the day as I travel from account to account, Windows is not turning off the WiFi adaptor. Thus, every time I wake up the computer I have to either manually turn the WiFi off and on to get it to reconnect, and sometimes have to run network diagnostics to reestablish my connection. I've researched keeping the WiFi connection live in sleep mode, but there is no longer a Power Management tab for my WiFi adapter in Device Manager/Properties, so the solutions I've found aren't available to me. My laptop was definitely not behaving this week for the first several months I've had it, so I suspect there was an update that both eliminated the Power Management function at the WiFi adapter level and forced the WiFi shutoff in sleep mode as the default. This has become a serious pain. Any suggestions?

Of course, the sentence I meant to type above should read "Windows IS turning off the WiFi adaptor." I don't know where that "not" came from. ...

Hi,

please follow the steps :

1. Press Windows logo key on the keyboard, type Power Options and select the top most search result.
2. Click on Change when the computer sleeps option from the left side panel of the window and click on Change advanced power settings.
3. Expand Sleep> Sleep after and choose Never from the drop down bar.
4. Click on Apply and OK after setting the time.
5. Close the window and check if the changes are effective.

Hope it helps

Thank You.

Yes, there appears to be a Rollback Driver option. Should I try that first?

Hi rgarretson

Greetings! I am Vijay, an Independent Advisor. Can you right click on your wifi driver in device manager and see if roll back is available?

Do let me know if you have any more question or require further help.