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.
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.
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.
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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Miguel Evamgelista says
How to set automatically instead of waiting sometime or 1hr to connect
Malay Kumar says
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.
Jinsu chai says
I have it on manually BUT IT WONT LET ME SELECT MY WIFI IT JUST SAYS MANUALLY helpppp
Nek Lamp says
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….
Amanda Parr says
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,
Rich says
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
admin says
RMW, you can keep the Wi-Fi turned off always, if you want, by selecting Manually option.
RMW says
From this guide it looks like its not possible to turn WiFi off, and leave it off, is that really the case?