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I have a Dell Laptop M1330, all of sudden the wifi stopped working, so ran all kind of aniviruses, cleaned 5 viruses, good, now I can´t connect via wifi, but can connect via Lan; so I figured that after deleting those viruse, I was left with corrupted files. I uninstalled the wireless adapter completely, reboot windows and it reinstalled back again. This is my problem and strangest thing is happening. I cannot see any wireless connection available, eventhough windows is the wifi administrator by default. now, here where it gets better, so I go to control panel/network connection/wireless connection/properties and then do a manually connection to my router and guess what, it connects, but it won´t show which connection I´m connected, it shows blank, but then I hover over the mouse on my wifi icon on the taskbar and it shows I´m connected to my wifi router. could some help me, I know it´s kind of long but it´s the only way to explain my situation. Thanks in advance for any help given.

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Kudos to for sorting this out personally. For anyone who finds this thread later with similarly odd wireless behavior, the following is a short, practical post‑mortem checklist and low-risk fixes that often resolve the class of problems that appear after malware removal or driver changes.

Run these repairs from an elevated command prompt, then reboot (Winsock reset requires a restart). These commands fix common corruption in the Windows networking stack and clear stale DNS/lease data:

netsh winsock reset
netsh int ip reset
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

Other quick checks and steps: confirm the OS wireless service is running (older Windows: Wireless Zero Configuration; newer: WLAN AutoConfig), verify any physical radio switch or BIOS wireless toggle, reinstall the WLAN driver using the laptop/vendor download rather than letting Windows pick a generic driver, and remove/recreate saved wireless profiles (use the OS GUI or netsh wlan on supported versions). Inspect the router for MAC filtering, SSID broadcast or encryption mismatches that can hide networks, and review Event Viewer for relevant service or driver errors.

Precautions and next steps: create a restore point before making registry or driver changes, run sfc /scannow if system files look suspect, test with a USB Wi‑Fi adapter to separate hardware vs OS problems, and keep a copy of vendor drivers. These steps give a reproducible troubleshooting path that helps narrow whether the issue is a corrupted network stack, a driver/hardware problem, or router-side settings.

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Thanks for the help people, thanks to me, the Genius that I am, I fixed it myself, that´s why my friends call me Mike Power.. Solved it on my own. Man Am I good or what.

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