How to fix-No Wireless networks found in Range?

No Wireless networks found in Range -Advance steps to fix the issue

No Wireless networks found in Range

These are the advance troubleshooting steps to fix the issue -Wireless networks not found on your computer. To know the basic troubleshooting steps click on the link below.

Unable to find Wireless Networks in Range -basic troubleshooting steps

The advance steps are:

1. Disable Firewalls on your computer.

Windows Firewall and third party firewalls installed on your computer may block wireless connection to your computer. So in order to troubleshoot the issue we need to disable Firewalls on your computer.

The steps to disable Windows Firewall on your computer are:

i. Double click on the wireless Icon on the system try(a computer propogating wireless signals)
ii. Click on View Wireless Networks
iii. Click on change advanced settings
iv. Click on advance tab
v. Click on the button settings under Windows Firewall
vi. Check off button and click on OK.

Now check whether you are getting wireless signals.

For third party firewalls follow respective manuals.


2. Restart the service Wireless Zero Configuration

To restart the service Wireless Zero Configuration follow the steps below.

i. Click on start
ii. Click on run
iii. On run window type the command services.msc and click OK
iv. On the services list select Wireless Zero Configuration (It is the 3rd last one)
v. Double click on the service
vi. Click on Stop and the click on start
vii. Click Apply and then OK

If still you are facing issues with receiving Wireless Signals we need to follow some other techniques. To know read below.

I am not receiving wireless signals even after disabling the Firewall

Some times we may not receive the Wireless signal on your computer but other computers can access Wireless from the same place. These are the advance troubleshooting steps to fix the issue -Wireless networks not found on your computer. To know the basic troubleshooting steps click on the link below.

My computer is not detecting any Wireless Networks -Wireless Troubleshooting Part 1

To begin with troubleshooting the issue(Wireless Network not found or Windows cannot found any wireless networks), we need to make sure that the following necessary things are present.

1. Make sure that there is a wireless network at the spot.

2. Make sure that your Wireless adapter is configured properly on your computer.

3. Make sure that the service Wireless Zero Configuration is started on your computer.

If all the necessary conditions are satisfied we can start our troubleshooting steps.

1. Refresh Wireless Network lists

To perform this follow the steps below.

i. Double click on the wireless Icon on the system try(a computer propogating wireless signals)
ii. Click on View Wireless Networks
iii. Click on the option Refresh Network list

If the wireless network don't found follow the step below.

2. Delete all preferred Networks

i. Click on " Change the order of Preferred Networks"
ii. Delete all the networks saved under preferred Networks
iii. Make Sure that the check box" Windows to configure my Wireless Network settings" is checked
iv. Click OK

Now follow the steps 1 once again to check if you are able to see the wireless networks. If the wireless networks are still not found,we need to perform the advance steps to fix the issue.Unable to find Wireless Networks in Range -basic troubleshooting steps


I assume that you have disabled the Firewalls on your computer and restarted the WZC(Wireless Zero Configuration) on your computer. The remaining troubleshooting steps are:

1. Unplug and reconnect the Wireless Adapter (USB adapter)

If you are using USB wireless Adapter you should unplugg the adapter from your computer and reconnect it after 30 seconds. This might bring back the connection to the available Wireless network. Make sure that the LED on wireless adapter is on.

2. Check the presence of any Interference

There is a chance that the place you are sitting is a hub of Wireless Interference. There is a chance that some one is using wireless Phone or any other devices which sends signal having the same frequency of the Wireless Access Point.


3. Restart you computer

Some times after restarting your computer the missing wireless network will come back to your view available wireless network list.

4. Update the driver of the Adapter installed on your computer


The next solution for the issue is update the adapter driver on your computer.This will definitely fix the issue.