WiFi won't work on boot

Darren

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This is an odd issue I've been having for the past few weeks. Don't remember when exactly it happened, but whenever I turn on my desktop from being off completely the WiFi will not work. In my system tray I have the icon for internet and it just acts like there is no wireless adapter and thus no signals to see. Click on this icon will immediately kick it to life, it will pop up that there's a few signals around and then connect me to my home network. After that it works fine. I'll leave my computer on for 10 mins sometimes after booting it before even using it and it still won't have connected. Everytime though, clicking on the system tray icon and it will connect immediately.

Drivers have been reinstalled numerous times and with different versions.
Router has been reset several times. No change. Rest of the house is fine, same adapter works on my laptop with no similar issue. I don't know what gives. It's more of just an annoyance as a few of my startup programs want internet access and then grumble at not having a connection. Any ideas? All my other USB devices work fine on boot and using a different port makes no difference either.
 
Do some general cleanup on your system as i've seen this sort of thing before and cleaning is all thats needed.

CCleaner
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Malwarebytes
 
System Ninja. Reset the TCP Winsock.

I already did that with a batch file and accomplished nothing.

John, tried what you suggested and it didn't seem to do anything either.

I'm almost positive that adapter is just crapping itself. I'm using my parents WiFi adapter for the time being and it's working fine now and connecting on boot. Mine started just dropping signal constantly and not staying connected or being really slow if it did. Looks like I'll be going shopping today. Any ideas on why wireless adapter just stop working right after a while? This seems to be pretty common, works fine for a while (couple years in this case) and then it just randomly stops working right with no noticeable cause. It gives me trouble on my laptop too but I need to test it on a different machine as my laptop has always been weird with my home internet.
 
Boo, the internal replacement cards are about the same price :P

At least it fixed your issue :D
 
Everytime I have a problem with it I want an immediate fix but don't want to pay for an internal card at the price of a local store. Cheaper online but I have to wait on that so I end up just with a cheaper USB one. It works. That other one lasted me 3 years and was 30 bucks. Not great, but this was only 12 bucks. It worked consistently for a long time, just kinda crapped out in the past month or so.
 
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