{"id":10616,"date":"2017-11-22T15:03:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T15:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=10616"},"modified":"2017-11-22T15:05:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T15:05:29","slug":"fix-windows-lose-wifi-connection-after-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/fix-windows-lose-wifi-connection-after-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix: Windows 10 \/ 8 Lose Wi-Fi Connection After Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed that your Wi-Fi gets disconnected when your PC goes to sleep or standby? After waking up your PC, you may notice that the Wi-Fi icon in the system tray appears as disconnected, and you have to click it to reconnect. So if you&#8217;re experiencing the same issue on your Window 10\/8 PC, here is a simple way to fix it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to fix the issue of Windows 10\/8 losing Wi-Fi connection after sleep?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Press the Windows Key + R and type <strong>devmgmt.msc<\/strong> in the Run dialog box to open Device Manager.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/devmgmt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10526\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>In Device Manager, expand <strong>Network adapters<\/strong>, right-click on your wireless network adapter (e.g. Dell Wireless 1506 adapter), and then select <strong>Properties<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/network-adapters-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"329\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10620\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>In the Properties window, switch to <strong>Power Management<\/strong> tab and uncheck the option <strong>Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power<\/strong>. Click <strong>OK<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/allow-computer-to-turn-off-network-adapter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"473\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10621\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Close Device Manager and reboot your computer to apply the change. Your Windows 10 \/ 8 PC should not lose Internet connection after sleep or standby.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed that your Wi-Fi gets disconnected when your PC goes to sleep or standby? After waking up your PC, you may notice that the Wi-Fi icon in the system tray appears as disconnected, and you have to click it to reconnect. So if you&#8217;re experiencing the same issue on your Window 10\/8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894,39],"tags":[3619,3618,3617],"class_list":["post-10616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-8","tag-lose-internet-connection-when-computer-sleeps","tag-no-internet-after-sleep-windows-10","tag-wifi-disconnects-after-sleep-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10616"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10623,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616\/revisions\/10623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}