Today's laptops have wifi cards installed to be able to connect to different types of wireless internet networks thanks to wifi enabled...
Today's laptops have wifi cards installed to be able to connect to different types of wireless internet networks thanks to wifi enabled devices.
If you are using Windows 10 operating system for laptops, but you do not know how to connect to wifi. Don't worry, this article will help you.
1. Instructions for connecting wifi to laptops using windows 10
- Method 1: Use keyboard shortcuts to open WiFi for Windows 10.
Typically, all laptops are designed with a keyboard shortcut to enable you to turn on wifi quickly and conveniently. To use this function, you can use the Fn key combination and a certain key (it depends on different models, so this key combination will be different). For example, Acer computers use the F7 key, HP computers use the F12 key, ...
- Method 2: Turn on WiFi for Windows 10 from the computer's network connection icon.
Look at the bottom of the computer screen with the symbol of the wireless network connection -> left click on the icon -> select wifi to turn on the connection.
Choose wifi to connect
- Method 3: Access settings to open wifi connection
On the taskbar, there is an internet connection icon, right click, and then select Open network & Internet Settings command.
Select Open network & Internet Settings.
Select wifi in the left corner and turn on wifi status (switch from Off to On).
- Method 4: Turn on wifi when your laptop device does not appear the wifi icon. This case is easy to make you confused.
If there is no sign of wifi signal on your computer, most likely, this icon is hidden in the settings menu. So to activate it again need to perform the following steps:
Right click the signal column -> Then select the category Open network & Internet Settings -> click Ethernet -> select Change adapter options.
Click on Ethernet, choose Change adapter options.
Select wifi item -> Right-click to select Enable and then follow the steps again
2. How to handle situations where the computer can not connect to wifi
This has many causes. It may be due to operating system, environmental impact, or hardware component device malfunction.
To fix it, let's refer to a few of the following:
- Restart the computer:
The first thing to do when your computer does not catch wifi is to reboot the device. This way can handle more errors than others. You may not believe it, but when your device is in operation for a long time, it will have problems and cause many errors. Then you just need to reboot the device, all problems will be solved.
- Re-enable wifi mode on computer:
This is a fairly common cause for computer equipment. It may be because the user accidentally turned off the wifi search device, then your device will not be able to search and connect to the internet. You can fix it easily by re-enabling wifi detection mode on your computer.
Press the key combination Fn + Fx on the keyboard (Fx depending on the model of the device that its value varies). Eg:
Dell series laptops: fn + F12
HP laptops: Fn + F12
Toshiba laptops: Fn + F12
Asus laptop: Fn + F2
Acer laptops: Fn + F2 or Fn + F5
- Reconnect the wifi network you are using:
In some cases WiFi Router, Modem in your device malfunctioned and caused no search error. To connect to wifi, you just need to delete that wifi address and make a connection again can overcome this situation.
- Restart WiFi Router, Modem:
If your device does not connect to the internet, the problem may be with the wifi transmitter. In this case, you can reset the device, unplug the power, restart the WiFi Router, Modem. Then plug it back in and your computer will return to normal.
- Broken WiFi Card:
If your computer has problems connecting to wifi may also be due to broken WiFi Card. However, this ability is quite rare. If you determine that this is the reason why your device is not connected to the internet, you need to take it to a computer repair shop so that qualified employees can help you repair it.
