Wifi detection/connection function completely disappeared

Question

My windows 10 laptop often says “no internet, secured” when connected to my home wifi, while others devices never do that. So I was trying to fix the problem following this article.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/fixed-windows-10-wifi-connected-but-no-internet/82573aa3-cebb-45df-9d0d-e90d68cab40d

When attempting Method #2 listed in that post, after I uninstalled the wifi adapter and restarted, the device manager shows the adapter is working properly.

However, the option to detect/connect to wifi completely disappeared.

When running troubleshoot on the Wifi adapters, it says “Windows couldn’t automatically bind the IP protocol stack to the network adapter”.

In trying to fix this, I tried to follow this article

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-couldnt-automatically-bind-the-ip-protocol/2c6c2e40-aecd-4f16-8a64-19ea94db9baf

and ran the commands listed.

When running ipconfig /registerdns, it gave the error message “Registration of DNS records failed: No DNS server configured for the local system”.

Also worth noting, when running ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew , the messages printed made no mention of any wifi connections and only mentioned the bluetooth and ethernet (which I had not connected so no operations were performed) ; when the last time I ran it, before doing anything to the adapter, it showed the wifi connections.

I could post the complete log of these commands if that would help, but they did nothing to solve the IP protocol stack bind problem. What should I do to try to fix this and restore the wifi capabilities?

Answer 1

Hi,

I'm glad you solved it. Thanks for letting us know.

Answer 2

I managed to find a fix following Fix 2 this article.

https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/windows-couldnt-automatically-bind-the-ip.html

My WLAN Autoconfig start up was set to manual and it’s stopped. After I changed it to automatic start up and restarted the system the Wifi function worked again.

Answer 3

Specify the exact model and brand of your computer or go to Start, type msinfo and post a screenshot.