Annoying WiFi issue

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My daughter's pc (w11) takes absolutely ages to register a WiFi connection when you get to the log in screen and I'm out of ideas as to how to fix.

Everything is up to date, checked services, WiFi signal all good. If you try and log in before WiFi is connected it'll just freeze up for several minutes before finally showing the desktop.

Once it's connected and you're logged in it's all good.

Any ideas?
 
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Is the Wifi card built-in to the motherboard or is it a USB/otherwise removable Wifi card? If the latter, does it do the same thing on another computer?
 
I'd start by uninstalling the drivers in Device Manager, deleting the drivers when prompted. Reboot, let Windows find the Wi-Fi adapter, enter your Wi-Fi credentials, then reboot to see if it does it again.
 
darael said:
I'd start by uninstalling the drivers in Device Manager, deleting the drivers when prompted. Reboot, let Windows find the Wi-Fi adapter, enter your Wi-Fi credentials, then reboot to see if it does it again.
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I've tried exactly that. Even installed the Intel driver update thing which told me it had a new WiFi driver. Installed that and funnily enough I thought that had fixed it as I was at least able to enter the pin and log in before the WiFi connected, but then a couple of restarts later it's back to the same behaviour.

My gut feeling is the issue isn't actually the WiFi and could be something else with Windows. I generally know how to trouble shoot a Windows pc and have run out of ideas apart from a complete reinstall.
 
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I know you have said everything is up to date but does this include the bios?

What motherboard is it?

If you have a spare HDD\SSD do a clean install on this and if it does not fix the issue you can just switch the drives back over. Will save you wasting time if it doesn't.
 
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ED209 said:
I know you have said everything is up to date but does this include the bios?

What motherboard is it?

If you have a spare HDD\SSD do a clean install on this and if it does not fix the issue you can just switch the drives back over. Will save you wasting time if it doesn't.
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Yep updated the bios, all chip set drivers etc.
 
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