Accidentally disabled my wifi connection, and now i cant reconnect.

I was attempting to figure out how to fix my internet connection, and there was an option which said disable, which i thought would temporarily disable my connection and allow me to simply reconnect. i hit that disable button, and all of the wifi disappeared from my laptop. i physically have turned the wifi on and off multiple times, but the internet connections box wont even show a wifi option. i connected with an ethernet to the internet, and it works fine. i dont know how to reenable the wifi on this new windows 10 system, since i just got it yesterday. i am using an older acer aspire 5742-6814 laptop. please help.

Does the wifi driver show in device manager with a down black arrow or is there an unknown device.

Roy

If you restart your laptop it should come back.

Hi Jeffspeak

I'll pop in this link to a thread I started which (vaguely I'm afraid) describes how I got my wifi back. It's probably not relevant and a long shot to actually being helpful, but I know what being stuck is like. Hope it maybe is of use.
WiFi Detection disappeared and Can't get on internet? Possible help. - Windows 10 Forums

Lots of luck

ausgumbie

Hi,
Press 'windows' key and 'R' and in the run command, type 'ncpa.cpl', press enter. In that, you should see your disabled connetction, just right click and enable it.

Cheers.

akshat said:

Hi,
Press 'windows' key and 'R' and in the run command, type 'ncpa.cpl', press enter. In that, you should see your disabled connetction, just right click and enable it.

Cheers.

That did it! Thank you!

Thank You SO Much Akshat!

akshat said:

Hi,
Press 'windows' key and 'R' and in the run command, type 'ncpa.cpl', press enter. In that, you should see your disabled connetction, just right click and enable it.

Cheers.

I literally had to register just to say thanks, you're a fuc*ing legend bro. Cheers.

akshat said:

Hi,
Press 'windows' key and 'R' and in the run command, type 'ncpa.cpl', press enter. In that, you should see your disabled connetction, just right click and enable it.

Cheers.

You saved me! So easy. Thanks. I see this was posted 2 years ago. The gift that keeps on giving.