Windows 10: Network Settings says No Internet Connection, But...

As said - no malware.

Firewall now enabled - no change. System tray/Network Center still says no connectivity and Live services still don't work - everything else continues to work.

EDIT: I've discovered that I can fix the issue by disabling/enabling my network card - rather than restarting my whole system. However, doing this did not permanently fix the issue. I restarted my computer to test and when it started up the network connectivity was unavailable - again. Something is causing it to sometimes fail to connect on initial load and it cannot automatically fix the problem.

I would say maybe my network card could be faulty - but it only affects Live connections from Microsoft services, which seems far too specific and something that should have an obvious cause or conflict.

3mptylord said:

EDIT: I've discovered that I can fix the issue by disabling/enabling my network card - rather than restarting my whole system. However, doing this did not permanently fix the issue. I restarted my computer to test and when it started up the network connectivity was unavailable - again. Something is causing it to sometimes fail to connect on initial load and it cannot automatically fix the problem.

I would say maybe my network card could be faulty - but it only affects Live connections from Microsoft services, which seems far too specific and something that should have an obvious cause or conflict.

[LB] I have the same problem with many of same symptoms. Hover over wifi and it says, "Indentifying...Internet access" but my SSID shows connected. With CAT 5 connection it shows connected - but network sharing always shows, 'you are not connected to any network'. It is not your card in my opinion - it is Win 10 network awareness is corrupted somehow. I have been working on this for days without resolution.

For me, EDGE, Cortana, Search window (works for local search but not internet), User accounts and all 'modern' (tiled) apps do not work. Chrome, Firefox, Outlook all work as normal. This proves it is Windows internals that is the problem.

Trying to find MS Win 10 help is difficult or impossible. I have been to many forums, tried many things without resolution. I am about ready to roll back to Win 7 on this laptop. One other option is to do a clean install of Win 10 and lose all my MS Office apps since I no longer have the install disk. Not to mention the long hours required to rebuild/reinstall/import apps., favorites, documents, etc.

I am pretty sure the right person with the right knowledge can fix this in the registry but who is that and where are they? :-)

If you find a resolution please post it here so I can give it a go as well. Thanks and good luck.

I have the same issue. Wondering if anyone has found a resolution.

Sorry I have nothing to offer. I ended up re-imaging my Sony laptop from an Acronis Full Image backup.

This post is resolved for me per above! Good luck everyone.

SethP said:

I'm just a bit curious whether I've got sort of the same issue here?

When I start my system the icon in the system tray has the yellow exclamation mark and when hovering over it it says that I have no Internet connection. This happens about 50% of the times I boot my system up. However, surfing the web (with Chrome) etc works just fine. The difference here (I guess?) and in my case is that if I wait for a couple of minutes, up to three to five minutes mostly but sometimes even ten, the icon change (the exclamation mark disappear and I have full (?) Internet access.

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Seth, since my earlier posting...after restoring Win 7 on my Sony VAIO laptop I finally upgraded to Win 10 and it works properly now. HOWEVER, my other two desktops (also Win 10) have a new problem - when I look in File Manager>Network it now shows only the Sony laptop icon but neither of the two desktops show themselves or each other but all three PCs do show the laptop!

Others have posted in Windows Feedback with same issue and some point to the March or May cumulative update. I had not noticed this problem until I wanted to scan a document on my Canon printer and have it sent to a desktop PC. The printer only saw the laptop but not the desktops! This led me to look for them in Network and as said, no desktops show up at all!

If I search in Network for a desktop using \\computername I can access either desktop so they are there on the network but not showing an icon in Network. I made sure File and printer sharing was ON as well as Network Discovery so I have to conclude that MS updates have messed with the Win 10 PCs...AGAIN!

MS updates have been getting worse for over a year now. I don't know why - perhaps some key update people left the company when they booted Sinofsky for botching Win 8.

Win 7 got wonky about updates and my suspicion is that MS tweaks things just enough to be annoying to nudge people into upgrading to Win 10. A friend in another state just went through the same Win 7 update problem. I sent a link to a Mr. Fixit and he had to run that 4 times to clear the update problem so it would update.

In your case, I would ignore it as best you can since everything works okay AND the icon exclamation point eventually goes away. Not an ideal solution but your problem seems cosmetic and does clear itself.

Life is too short to chase down problem one after another on a brand new OS - it is like MS is building a plane while in flight. No wonder they are missing their one billion PCs using Win 10 goal - so far less than 350 million Win 10 users! Best of luck.