Dell Computer isn’t showing WiFi Networks

Hi there HangMan97, I will be your Independent Advisor for today, I hope we can both resolve your problem.

What have you run so far in terms of fixing or troubleshooting it?

Do you have any Wireless Switch at the side of your laptop? If you have please switch it On.

And also please we need to completely uninstall the Wifi Driver off your system.

Here is how to do it.

Here the steps to completely remove a Device off your computer.

Step 1. Use shortcut keys Windows key + X on Windows 10.

Step 2. Select Device Manager.

Step 3. Expand the entry Network Adapters . Right-click the problematic device which is Wireless or WiFi driver and select Uninstall device.

Step 4. You need to check the option Delete the driver software for this device, and then click the Uninstall button.

Step 5. Reboot the computer.

After the reboot please check if you can access your WiFi.

If you uninstall it completely and reboot that should reinstall the driver back again. It is just like you are reloading it back to its place.

That will make me permanently unable to connect to the internet if I uninstall my wifi driver wont it?

Try to manually adding the WiFi.

Go to Start, type in Control Panel, the go to Network and Internet then go to Network and Sharing Center, then click on Set up a new network, Connect to Wireless then type in the SSID and the password, choose WPA2 personal as the security type. then click next until its done.

Click on the WiFi icon then check if you see any hidden network there as one of the options. If you see hidden network please click on it, enter the SSID and the wifi password.