Disable WLAN AutoConfig WiFi auto recovery function.

Win10Pro 20H2 19042.928

I notices this behavior a few versions back and thought it was my WiFi card acting up but then noticed it on other Win10 computers. The service WLAN AutoConfig will monitor, disconnect and reconnect the WiFi network if the internet is unreachable. Convenient, but not when I'm configuring and testing scripts on my router. It there a way to disable this annoying behavior? Disabling WLAN AutoConfig will pretty much disable WiFi too.

Eventlog:
WLAN AutoConfig detected limited connectivity, attempting automatic recovery.

Recovery Type: 4
Error Code: 0x0
Trigger Reason: 5
IP Family: 0

Sometimes I just can't be bothered to use a wired connection and stand near my router. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Very often ? I remember it used to be like that in the old times of Windows 2000, but I've not seen it on my hardware since 2008 at the very least... but that may be because among options I often choose the most generic one.

Anyway now that you speak of it, maybe resorting to third party wireless management software is the solution, if MS can't manage it properly.

Hi Callender, thanks for coming in !

My problem (and OP's too it seems) is that once I lose internet connectivity, the OS feels the need to trash local connectivity as well by restarting the wireless driver. Heck, having a few seconds of internet starvation isn't the end of the world... There are other things in life, even in my own computer's life, than internet.

My old Linux box, connected to the same AP, at the same speed, remains associated without a problem. Each and every day, including today (I just checked), it associates upon boot and remains steadily connected, until I shut it down. One AP association per day, that's all.

So, I know I lose internet sometimes, it's normal and it's not the subject here. If only Windows could refrain from restarting my wireless driver in such cases, that would be cool.

I just experienced the same thing again despite having disabled NCSI passive checks, so it doesn't seem to help, hence I now disabled the active checks (didn't reactivate the passive checks for now). Time will tell ! If that's not enough, next step will be to disable autoconfig.

Naturally, I will come back with the results.

EDIT : Contrary to what is mentioned in a page I linked in a previous post, disabling active tests doesn't show me the No internet access indicator, which is good.

NovHak Thanks for the fix

Callender I'm losing connectivity because I'm modifying the router's configuration and files (OpenWrt). It's deliberate. This 'auto recovery feature' Microsoft added would constantly cause my ssh connection to the router to drop in the middle of this.

Don't really understand Microsoft's logic with this one. If a network gateway is down then how is disconnecting and reconnecting to the same WIFI network supposed to be a solution.

Fr3nZy said:

NovHak Thanks for the fix

Glad to help ! I'm not 100% sure it will work however, so don't hesitate to come back and confirm.

Callender said:

Disable Network Location Awareness Service then reboot and test.

That's possibly a good idea indeed, this had come through my mind at some point.

However, it's always the same problem, even in the case it indeed prevents the auto-recovery, some other features will be lost in the process. Can't there be an option to simply disable auto-recovery ?

I installed Linux on my laptop yesterday, and I have to say that since then it behaved perfectly, as far as wireless connectivity is concerned (i.e. one association per day). Same hardware, same AP, only different OS...