Why is the power management tab missing? I have windows 11 home

Question

My wifi network adapter keeps turning off after starting up my laptop. I have discovered that windows 11 is turning it off and to turn it back on I need to change a settings in the power management tab which is now missing.

How do I turn this tab back on?

Answer 1

The driver should be responsible for bringing the networking hardware back up. You shouldn't be doing hacky Windows workarounds unless you have zero choice as that could have other problems associated with it over time :)

By default Windows doesn't stop the networking hardware from coming back up on resume.

Should be a problem to be solved by a driver update. If its not fully compatible with Windows 11 or has problems there then do as you must if there's simply nothing better. In rare cases it could be a Windows networking bug where its broken it some way on resume and then updating will eventually fix it. But, then the driver would be bringing it up anyway and then that hacky workaround should really do nothing.

Hopefully it does work for you though.

Event Viewer may shed more light on it over just simply saying its Windows.

Answer 2

I did locate the vendor drivers for my network card and have updated them. I'm hoping this will fix my issue.

I did open the even viewer and tried to sift through the endless data listed but my lack of knowledge prevented me from seeing where the issue had occurred.

Thank you for the reply

Answer 3

Hello rwysig,

Good day! I'm John Dev a Windows user like you and I'll be happy to assist you today. I know this has been difficult for you, Rest assured, I'm going to do my best to help you. When was the last time it worked properly?

Please check and try Rbotero's solution in the older thread in the link below if it helps.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

Kindly let me know if this helps or if you have any further concerns.

Kind regards,

John DeV

Independent Advisor