I have this annoying issue with one Windows 11 computer, basically the
wifi settings hang for something like 45 seconds at a time. So, wait
wait wait to get a list of networks, wait wait wait again to maybe
choose one and connect or maybe need to wait again. Very annoying and in practice it takes a ridiculously long time to switch from network A to
network B. Let alone trying to connect to a new network.

Both the little window that pops up from taskbar and settings->network & internet hang. No problem with connectivity once I get connected.

I noticed I can switch between known networks on the command line during
these hangs so it really seems to be the settings UI that hangs.

So far I've tried "Network reset" which just wiped my wifi settings and
was no help. And I updated the wifi drivers but no help. Wifi HW is
common Intel AX210.

I don't know what else I could try. I have previously mangled the
Windows UI with Explorer Patcher long ago and more recently with another
tool called "Winallback" but uninstalling that didn't help. I've tried
sfc /scannow too but it didn't find anything.

Any ideas? I guess reinstalling might fix it but I'd really rather not.

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On 5/22/2026 6:10 AM, Anssi Saari wrote:

I have this annoying issue with one Windows 11 computer, basically the
wifi settings hang for something like 45 seconds at a time. So, wait
wait wait to get a list of networks, wait wait wait again to maybe
choose one and connect or maybe need to wait again. Very annoying and in practice it takes a ridiculously long time to switch from network A to network B. Let alone trying to connect to a new network.

Both the little window that pops up from taskbar and settings->network & internet hang. No problem with connectivity once I get connected.

I noticed I can switch between known networks on the command line during these hangs so it really seems to be the settings UI that hangs.

So far I've tried "Network reset" which just wiped my wifi settings and
was no help. And I updated the wifi drivers but no help. Wifi HW is
common Intel AX210.

I don't know what else I could try. I have previously mangled the
Windows UI with Explorer Patcher long ago and more recently with another
tool called "Winallback" but uninstalling that didn't help. I've tried
sfc /scannow too but it didn't find anything.

Any ideas? I guess reinstalling might fix it but I'd really rather not.

I had a similar problem with a hard wired connection I worked on
yesterday. I think I've found the problem of why it would seem to lose connection while unattended for short times.
I went into Device Manager\Network adapters and selected my
adapter\Advanced tab, and there were three items under Property that I disabled. Energy Efficient Ethernet, power saving mode, and Green
Ethernet. There was one other thing, but I'm sorry I can't remember
what it was.

There looks to be a couple different options for wifi, but they were all
power related things. Might want to search there.



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On Fri, 5/22/2026 7:10 AM, Anssi Saari wrote:

I have this annoying issue with one Windows 11 computer, basically the
wifi settings hang for something like 45 seconds at a time. So, wait
wait wait to get a list of networks, wait wait wait again to maybe
choose one and connect or maybe need to wait again. Very annoying and in practice it takes a ridiculously long time to switch from network A to network B. Let alone trying to connect to a new network.

Both the little window that pops up from taskbar and settings->network & internet hang. No problem with connectivity once I get connected.

I noticed I can switch between known networks on the command line during these hangs so it really seems to be the settings UI that hangs.

So far I've tried "Network reset" which just wiped my wifi settings and
was no help. And I updated the wifi drivers but no help. Wifi HW is
common Intel AX210.

I don't know what else I could try. I have previously mangled the
Windows UI with Explorer Patcher long ago and more recently with another
tool called "Winallback" but uninstalling that didn't help. I've tried
sfc /scannow too but it didn't find anything.

Any ideas? I guess reinstalling might fix it but I'd really rather not.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/analyze-the-wireless-network-report-76da0daa-1db2-6049-d154-7bb679eb03ed

"At the command prompt, type

netsh wlan show wlanreport

This will generate a wireless network report that's saved as an HTML file, which you
can open in your favorite web browser. The report shows all the Wi-Fi events from
the last three days and groups them by Wi-Fi connection sessions.
"

Some things are recorded on the computer, as ETW files, and later, software is used to convert that, into some kind of report. I don't have Wifi set up on this machine at the moment (adapter not plugged in), but I can still run the command and show the intentions. Notice the report is buried :-)

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> netsh wlan show wlanreport
Generating report ...
Querying WLAN Events ...
Querying NCSI Events ...
Querying NDIS Events ...
Querying EAP Events ...
Querying WCM Events ...
Querying Kernel Events ...
Querying System Events ...
Running ipconfig ...
Running netsh wlan show all ...
Querying Wireless Profiles ...
Querying System and User Certificates ...
Querying User Info ...
Querying Network Devices ...

Report written to: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WlanReport\wlan-report-latest.html
done.

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>

You can also look in eventvwr.msc , that's if they generate any nice events
for broken things.

*******

You can Repair Install an OS, but there is no guarantee that "good things"
will happen to the registry contents. The machine does not know the
difference between a "bad" registry setting and "user choice". Users
become annoyed, if too much stuff is reset on them.

A Clean Install would have much better characteristics with regard
to hygiene, but then it's a lot of work to return things to how
you had them.

At one time, the ENUM section of the Registry was all in one place.
Deleting that, and most all hardware could be freshly rediscovered
and then (presumably) the bad history of any Wifi screw-ups would
be removed. However, the modern OS seems to have spewed material
all over the place, which makes adhoc erasure a non-starter as
an effective way to remove every possible cockup.

Paul

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sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> writes:

There looks to be a couple different options for wifi, but they were
all power related things. Might want to search there.

There was only one power related setting in mine but no help. Thanks
anyway.


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Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> writes:

I actually had things working for maybe a minute, spotted there was a
recent driver update from April 28. But after that minute, it's the same
old hangs.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/analyze-the-wireless-network-report-76da0daa-1db2-6049-d154-7bb679eb03ed

"At the command prompt, type

netsh wlan show wlanreport

Ah, that. I think I've looked at that kind of report before. Well, it's
huge and I have no idea what I should be looking for in there.

You can also look in eventvwr.msc , that's if they generate any nice events for broken things.

I have, but nothing seems relevant. And again, so much data.

You can Repair Install an OS, but there is no guarantee that "good things" will happen to the registry contents. The machine does not know the difference between a "bad" registry setting and "user choice". Users
become annoyed, if too much stuff is reset on them.

Might be worth a shot. I'll see.

Or I might just plod on with things as is. I'm mostly on known networks anyways, there's built in 5G too and tethering is also an option I
recently used for travel, with a travel eSIM in the phone.


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