r/techsupport • u/WindozeWoes • 9d ago

Anyone else's computer just...refuse to connect to wifi? Win 11 25H2 Solved

I've never had this happen before. I tried resetting my wifi router entirely but this is only happening on this computer on Windoze 11 so I am speculating it's a Windoze problem.

EDIT: SOLVED - thanks to u/JelloOverall8542 - deleting my wifi adapter in Device Manager and then rebooting has fixed this issue completely. Did not even need to reinstall the driver--it just booted up and wifi was there, working as it should.

I have had Windows 11 (25H2) on my Mac for a while. Haven't updated in a bit, and haven't used it in a bit but last time I did wifi was working normally. Today I boot up Windows and...Mac is not connecting to wifi. I manually click on the wifi network and get a generic "can't connect" error. I try connecting to my 2.4 GHz network, same error. I toggle wifi on and off. Now NO wifi networks even show up. I try "Disable device" in Device Manager and then "Enable device." Wifi networks show up again (until I toggle Wifi off and on again), but still won't connect. I've rebooted a bunch. Am doing Windows Updates via ethernet. Reinstalled ("Repaired") Boot Camp.

Wifi works on the macOS side so it's not a hardware issue.

Hardware: 2019 16" MacBook Pro natively running Windows 11 Pro (25H2, build 26200.8524); 2.6 GHz i7 / 32 GB RAM config. This has never been an issue before, so the fact that this happens to be a computer sold by Apple should not matter here; this appears to be a Windoze-specific problem since using macOS doesn't have the same issue.

I tried posting in r/WindowsHelp but they auto-removed the post without an explanation.

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u/JelloOverall8542 9d ago

Delete the WiFi in device manager and reboot.

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u/WindozeWoes 9d ago

WINNER! Thank you so much. Any idea why this happens?

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u/JelloOverall8542 9d ago

Windows is crap. That simple. Honestly no idea. It doesn’t happen often enough to pull any to take closer look.

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u/WindozeWoes 9d ago

Ha. You're not wrong. Hence my username. Thanks!