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WiFi no longer works in Win10
Have an HP DV6 laptop running both Win7 and Win10, which I upgraded to Win10 when it first came ouy. Has been working fine, since.
Only use WiFi when we take this on vacation, once a year. WiFi worked fine last April, but this week, does not work at all in in in Win10. Works fine i Win7, though.
The LED in F12 key does not change from red (in Win10), although Airplane mode does toggle on and off. Troubleshooting finds nothing it can fix. Device manager shows no errors. Network connections shows red x in Realtek WLAN.
My guess is the driver for the "WiFi switch" (f12) got overwritten,but I can find no such device either in Win7 or Win10.
Have checked Windows Updates back to Aug 2016 but found nothing specific to drivers, and have driver updates disabled.
I could try a repair-install or clean-install, but would rather see if anyone else has run into this and fixed it, first. And please do NOT send me to the HP support forums -- as the last time I went there, it was a total waste of time!