Can I trust this Windows 10 WiFi fix?

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I've just installed Windows 10, and I my laptop can't find any wireless networks, even though I know for certain that there are ones available. I did do a little research, and found that (supposedly) entering these two commands in the command prompt will fix the issue.

reg delete HKCR\CLSID\{988248f3-a1ad-49bf-9170-676cbbc36ba3} /va /f
netcfg -v -u dni_dne

Is this a good solution, or is there a better/safer solution?

Ethan Bierlein

Posted 2015-08-07T16:45:53.577

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Before blindly following the internet you must find the root cause of the problem first. Do you have latest driver, is WLAN AutoConfig service running ? – pun – 2015-08-07T16:49:34.610

This knowledge base article from Microsoft contains the same instructions: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3084164

– janv8000 – 2016-06-22T12:52:10.993

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I too had issue updating to Windows 10 from Windows 7 and then being unable to connect to WiFi.

My windows system is 32 bit, and when I entered the first reg edit command line as above, the prompt returned with ERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value.

So don't know whether this will work for all units, unfortunately

Grant Baker

Posted 2015-08-07T16:45:53.577

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