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Automatically Turn Wi-Fi Back On In 1 Hour, 4 Hours Or 24 Hours In Windows 10

Last Updated on March 11, 2020 by admin 8 Comments

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Every morning, after checking emails and feeds, I usually turn off my work PC’s Wi-Fi for an hour or two so that I can work without any distractions. I have observed that turning off the Wi-Fi and staying away from internet updates improves my productivity.

Many of us often turn off Wi-Fi for various reasons. Some users turn off Wi-Fi to work peacefully, and many turn off Wi-Fi when not required to improve the battery life of their PC.

Up until now, there was no option to automatically turn Wi-Fi back on after some time, but starting with Windows 10 build 14942, one can configure Windows 10 automatically turn Wi-Fi back on after 1 hour, 4 hours, or 1 day.

The best thing about this new feature is that the option to turn Wi-Fi back on appears right after you turn off the Wi-Fi either via the Wi-Fi flyout or Settings app.

The following are the two ways to configure Windows 10 to automatically turn Wi-Fi back on in 1 hour, 4 hours, or 24 hours.

Important: You must be running Windows 10 build 14942 or later build to use this feature.

Method 1 of 2

Turn Wi-Fi on automatically after some time

This is the fastest way to turn off Wi-Fi in Windows 10 and choose when to turn on the Wi-Fi again.

Step 1: Click or tap the Wi-Fi icon in the system tray of the taskbar to see all available wireless networks and the network name your PC currently connected to.

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If the Wi-Fi icon is not showing up, please refer to our fix to missing Wireless icon in Windows 10 taskbar guide.

Step 2: Click on the Wi-Fi tile once to turn it off and see the following flyout.

Step 3: Under Turn Wi-Fi back on section, choose either In 1 Hour, In 4 Hours, or In 1 Day option. That’s it! Depending on your selection, Windows 10 will automatically turn Wi-Fi back on in 1 hour, 4 hours, or 1 day.

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Method 2 of 2

Turn Wi-Fi back on after 1 hour, 4 hours, or 24 hours via Settings

Step 1: Open the Settings app. Click Network & Internet icon.

Step 2: Click Wi-Fi to see Wi-Fi settings.

Step 3: Under the Wi-Fi section, turn off the Wi-Fi to see Turn Wi-Fi back on option.

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Step 4: Select either In 1 hour, In 4 hours, or In 1 day option from the drop-down box to automatically turn Wi-Fi on after 1 hour, 4 hours, or 24 hours.

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Filed Under: Windows 10 Tagged: Tips

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Comments

  1. Miguel Evamgelista says

    August 7, 2021 at 2:33 pm

    How to set automatically instead of waiting sometime or 1hr to connect

  2. Malay Kumar says

    June 15, 2020 at 6:55 pm

    This feature is horrible….I accidentally selected 1 day MD now can’t turn on my wifi. Every time I try this, aeroplane mode gets activated and say ‘can’t connect to the network’. Windows have stupid updates.

  3. Jinsu chai says

    June 7, 2020 at 1:52 am

    I have it on manually BUT IT WONT LET ME SELECT MY WIFI IT JUST SAYS MANUALLY helpppp

  4. Nek Lamp says

    December 23, 2018 at 3:37 pm

    How on earth do you disable this feature??? My laptop’s wifi shuts down everytime I do a windows update and I have to wait more than an hour to get back online… This is the most useless and annoying feature of windows. It turns my laptop to just a typing machine….

  5. Amanda Parr says

    June 28, 2018 at 4:32 am

    How do you keep the WIFI on at all times? I don’t like this feature as my laptop is frequently being used.
    Any ideas on how to stop this?
    Thanks,

  6. Rich says

    August 6, 2017 at 11:30 pm

    My lenovo laptop spontaneously(as far as I can tell) disconnected yesterday from the internet and when i click the internet access logo at the bottom right, it gives the manual, 1 hour and 4 hour option to reconnect, but none of them seem to work. What gives? Thanks. RLP

  7. admin says

    October 24, 2016 at 12:06 pm

    RMW, you can keep the Wi-Fi turned off always, if you want, by selecting Manually option.

  8. RMW says

    October 22, 2016 at 6:30 pm

    From this guide it looks like its not possible to turn WiFi off, and leave it off, is that really the case?

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