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One Windows account causes router wi-fi to turn off
I did an in-place upgrade from Win 7 Ultimate to 10 Pro with no apparent problems...at least until my wife tried to watch Netflix on our wi-fi connected Roku.
My computer is connected to my router with an ethernet cable. There is no wi-fi adapter on my PC. When I am logged in to my Windows user account, the router (a Netgear R6300 v2 upgraded to latest firmware) drops all wi-fi devices.
I've read all the other network/wi-fi threads on Ten Forums, but none of them mention this problem. I even asked Google, and it just looked at me with one raised eye-brow, Spock-like, as if I had a rubber chicken growing out of my ears.
When I log out of my account, and the wi-fi is magically restored to normal operation.
If I log in with one of the other accounts on the machine, the wi-fi is NOT affected, and everybody in the house is happy. So, the problem only happens on MY account. I did not have the Netgear Genie software installed, so I gave that a go but it made no difference, so I removed it. I have tried various versions of the Realtex LAN driver.
When the wi-fi is "disabled" the router management console shows it as still being active, but shows no devices attached. Rebooting the router does not solve the problem. I've installed the latest Windows 10 patches.
The problem is mopefully moot, since I plan on doing a clean install of Win 10 this weekend. The in-place upgrade was strictly a quick way to make sure all my applications worked with 10. If they didn't work, I would have an option to roll-back to 7 without having to re-install all my apps.
Has anybody else had an experience similar to mine? It's frustrating as H-E-double-hockey-sticks that I cannot figure out how it's doing it, and why it only happens on MY account!
Woz
Last edited by Woz; 06 Aug 2015 at 12:56. Reason: Clarify problem in title