No Wi-Fi Connections Available in Windows - Solutions
A fairly common problem for owners of laptops with Windows 10, Windows 7 or 8 (8.1) - at one point in the notification area, instead of the usual icon for a wireless Wi-Fi connection, a red cross is displayed, and when you hover over it, a message stating that there are no available connections.
At the same time, in most cases, this happens on a completely working laptop - yesterday, you may have successfully connected to an access point at home on it, and today this is the situation. The reasons for this behavior may be different, but in general terms - the operating system considers that the Wi-Fi adapter is turned off, and therefore reports that there are no available connections. And now for ways to fix it.
If Wi-Fi has not been previously used on this laptop, or if you have reinstalled Windows
If you have never used wireless capabilities on this device before, and now you have installed a Wi-Fi router and want to connect and you have this problem, then I recommend that you read the article first.
If the wireless network was working, but now there are no available connections
If everything was working recently, and now there is a problem, try the methods listed below in order. If you do not know how to complete steps 2-6, everything is described in great detail (opens in a new tab). And if these options have already been tested, go to the seventh point, from which I will begin to describe in detail (because everything is not so simple there for novice computer users).
Remove the wireless Wi-Fi adapter from the device manager, install it again
In order to launch the Windows Device Manager, press the Win + R keys on the laptop keyboard and enter the command devmgmt.msc, and then press Ok or Enter.
In the device manager, open the "Network Adapters" section, right-click on the Wi-Fi adapter, pay attention to whether there is an "Enable" item (if there is, turn it on and do not do everything else that is described here, the inscription should not be available connections disappear) and if it is not there, select "Delete".
After the device is removed from the system, in the Device Manager menu, select "Action" - "Update hardware configuration". The wireless adapter will be found again, drivers will be installed on it and, perhaps, everything will work.
See if the "WLAN AutoConfig" service is enabled in Windows
In order to do this, go to the Windows control panel, select "Administration" - "Services", find "WLAN Autoconfiguration" in the list of services and, if you see "Disabled" in its parameters, double-click on it and in the field "Startup type" set to "Automatic", and also click the "Start" button.
Just in case, look through the list and if you find additional services that have Wi-Fi or Wireless in their name, turn them on too. And then, preferably, restart your computer.
I hope one of these methods will help you solve the problem when Windows says there are no Wi-Fi connections available.