Wifi sometimes doesn't work, restart "fixes" it

rudyjason

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Aug 14, 2016
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Hello everyone, I'm having some problems with my wifi and I am lost on what to do next.

I'm working on a Toshiba Satellite A350 - WIndows 10 64bit.
Sometimes when I boot my laptop up I can just connect to the wifi and there is no problem.
Other times, I boot up and my wifi is "disabled". By this I mean that in the new windows wifi settings screen, my wifi is turned off. When I try to turn it on, it gives a loading circle but never actually turns it on. Closing the settings screen and navigating to it again shows that it's still off. I have a hardware switch on the laptop, but that does not fix the problem. I can't see wifi networks near me due to this and thus cannot connect to my own wifi. Rebooting seems to help most of the time. After every boot there's basically a 50% chance of the wifi just being turned off and being unable to turn it on. The other 50% the wifi works fine.
I know it's a long shot, but does anyone have any idea?