Solved Problems with Windows wireless service turning off

whamajama said:

Hello, I installed Win8 a few weeks ago, and I have had quite a few problems, but most I have been able to figure out myself. Now, however, I have an issue that doesn't really cause any cataclysmic problems, but it sure is irritating. Consistently, when I turn on my PC, I can connect wirelessly to my home network, but after anywhere from a few seconds to ~30 minutes, I lose connection and the little icon in the bottom right corner of my monitor becomes the symbol that I believe denotes I am connected via a wired connection...which simply is not the case. I then have to open the "change adapter settings" page and manually restart my WLAN card, then use the "diagnose" feature, and every time it finds that "the Windows wireless service is not running on this computer." I then fix this and all is hunky dory once again...but not for long. After another few seconds to a few minutes, the same exact happens again. Then again a third time. It is always exactly three times.

So, what exactly is going on? Is the wireless service crashing, or just turning itself off? I have a couple of different distros of Linux also installed on this PC, and I don't have any similar problems there, and when the signal is working it is strong. This also happens when I move my computer anywhere else, even right next to the router. Any help would be appreciated.

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Shadowjk said:

Could you please go to services.msc and verify that the WLAN AutoConfig service is running? If not then please start the service to see if that solves your issue. Also could you go to the properties of that service and verify that startup type is set to 'Automatic'

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/12411-services-start-stop-disable-windows-8-a.html - Follow option one of this tutorial only but replace any service reference with 'WLAN AutoConfig'


Hope This Helps,
Josh!

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