A while back my Lenovo laptop crashed and when I got it back up and running and did a system restore, the internet worked directly through an ethernet cable but no WiFi networks show up at all. It's not just my own personal WiFi network that doesn't show up, there's just no option for connecting to WiFi.
My wireless switch is turned on.
I thought it may have been a driver issue so I downloaded the WiFi driver for my computer's model. That didn't solve it.
Microsoft's troubleshooting page says "If a network monitoring program is running on your computer, the wireless network adapter will be set to monitor mode, which prevents Windows from connecting to wireless networks. To connect to a wireless network, close the network monitoring program or follow the instructions in the program to exit monitor mode."
This is my best guess as to what the problem is, but I don't know what a network monitoring program is and I wasn't able to find out through a google search. I had installed a couple of programs that did a screen sharing type thing for giving user reviews of websites so I thought I could have been those. I installed those programs and still no change.
Anyone familiar with this problem?
My wireless switch is turned on.
I thought it may have been a driver issue so I downloaded the WiFi driver for my computer's model. That didn't solve it.
Microsoft's troubleshooting page says "If a network monitoring program is running on your computer, the wireless network adapter will be set to monitor mode, which prevents Windows from connecting to wireless networks. To connect to a wireless network, close the network monitoring program or follow the instructions in the program to exit monitor mode."
This is my best guess as to what the problem is, but I don't know what a network monitoring program is and I wasn't able to find out through a google search. I had installed a couple of programs that did a screen sharing type thing for giving user reviews of websites so I thought I could have been those. I installed those programs and still no change.
Anyone familiar with this problem?
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