I decided to write about possible solutions to another problem with Wi-Fi connection in Windows 10. This is an error "Cannot connect to this network". When we select the network we need from the list of available networks, click connect, it seems to be connecting, but the message "Cannot connect to this network" appears. On Windows 10, it looks like this:
This error may appear due to anything: some kind of malfunction in the system itself, or on the router, changing Wi-Fi network parameters (password, encryption type), etc. By the way, the most popular reason is just a change wifi password network. If when you try to connect your laptop on Windows 10 to Wi-Fi, you see an error that this is not possible, then there are several ways that can help you. Now we will consider them.
"Cannot connect to this network." How to fix?
First of all, reboot your laptop and router. Very often, a regular reboot helps, and you don’t have to dig into the settings.
If this method did not help, then you need to delete the network on your computer, forget it. To do this is also not difficult. Click on the Wi-Fi connection icon and select Network settings.
Select the network you cannot connect to and click on the button Forget.
After that, try reconnecting to your Wi-Fi network. You will need to specify a password. You can watch this connection manual. In more detail about how to "forget" the network in Windows 10, I wrote here.
Update: try disabling antivirusIn the comments, Alex advised disabling the antivirus. It helped him, the error "Unable to connect to this network" disappeared, and he was able to connect to the Internet. So, be sure to try disabling your antivirus software. As a rule, you need to right-click on the antivirus icon in the notification panel, and select something like "suspend protection".
If you are aware of other options for solving the "Cannot connect to this network" problem that appears in Windows 10, then you can share them in the comments.
Update: updating the hardware configurationAgain, in the comments, Artem wrote that he got rid of the "Cannot connect to this network" error by updating the hardware in the device manager. Michael confirmed that this method also helped him. Therefore, I decided to add this solution to the article.
Just go to the device manager and click on the button “Update equipment configuration”.
Perhaps this method will also help you. Write about the results in the comments.
Error "Could not connect to windows service»May occur for various reasons. System Event Notification Service may stop working, Client group policy. The consequences of such failed connections are different, but almost always lead to system inoperability.
Many users have a problem when the message "Windows cannot connect to the" System Events Notification Service "service appears in the tray. This prevents ordinary users from logging in. ”
At the same time, the computer starts to load slowly or does not load at all, freezes, a black screen appears at the entrance to the system, programs start and open very slowly, while the CPU shows 100% load, but does not load anything specific. May also not work. windows recovery. In general, it becomes completely impossible to work on a computer.
In most cases, such problems occur due to damage to the registry keys with Winsock settings for various reasons. It can be damaged due to improperly installed software, the action of viruses, incorrect settings and incorrect installed updates. There may be other reasons.
How to fix a system event notification service error
The first thing you can do is try to roll back the system to its previous state. To do this, go to Start, open the Control Panel, select System and Security - System Restore.
Select the recovery point that appeared before the start when an error appears about connecting to the Windows service, and the process starts. But in some cases, this may not work due to a system malfunction or lack of recovery points. Be sure to check the system with antivirus and garbage cleaner. This can help.
If the problem remains, then tear off command line and write: "route -f", press Enter, on next line write "netsh winsock reset". Close and restart the computer.
If it doesn’t help, open the command line again and enter the following commands:
- ipconfig / flushdns
- nbtstat -R
- nbtstat -RR
- netsh int reset all
- netsh int ip reset
- netsh winsock reset
- netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel \u003d disabled
And reboot again.
You can also try opening the Network Control Center and clicking on “Change adapter settings”. Next, right-click on “Connection by local area network»And select Properties. Opposite the "Client for Microsoft Networks" should be ticked, if it is not there, put it and reboot again.
The error “Could not connect to the Windows service” can occur for various reasons. The System Event Notification Service, Group Policy Client may stop working. You can also often see this message on. The consequences of such failed connections are different, but almost always lead to system inoperability.
Many users have a problem when the message "Windows cannot connect to the" System Events Notification Service "service appears in the tray. This prevents ordinary users from logging in. ”
At the same time, the computer starts to load slowly or does not load at all, freezes, a black screen appears at the entrance to the system, programs start and open very slowly, while the CPU shows 100% load, but does not load anything specific. Windows recovery may also not work. In general, it becomes completely impossible to work on a computer.
In most cases, such problems occur due to damage to the registry keys with Winsock settings for various reasons. It can be damaged due to improperly installed software, the action of viruses, incorrect settings and incorrectly installed updates. There may be other reasons.
How to fix a system event notification service error
The first thing you can do is try to roll back the system to its previous state. To do this, go to Start, open the Control Panel, select System and Security - System Restore.
Select the recovery point that appeared before the start when an error appears about connecting to the Windows service, and the process starts. But in some cases, this may not work due to a system malfunction or lack of recovery points. Be sure to check the system with antivirus and garbage cleaner. This can help.
If the problem persists, we tear off the command line and write: “route -f”, press Enter, on the next line write “netsh winsock reset”. Close and restart the computer.
If it doesn’t help, open the command line again and enter the following commands:
- ipconfig / flushdns
- nbtstat -R
- nbtstat -RR
- netsh int reset all
- netsh int ip reset
- netsh winsock reset
- netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel \u003d disabled
And reboot again.
You can also try opening the Network Control Center and clicking on “Change adapter settings”. Next, right-click on “Local Area Connection” and select Properties. Opposite the "Client for Microsoft Networks" should be ticked, if it is not there, put it and reboot again.
If, nevertheless, such a problem does not disappear, then you will have to reinstall the system.
Gadget service not connecting
In Windows 7, everyone’s favorite gadgets appeared, but Microsoft stopped supporting them and one day instead of the usual gadget, for example, weather, a message will appear that it was not possible to connect to the service.
In some cases, simply restarting the application helps, but over time it may stop working completely. To do this, click on the cross in the corner, then right-click on any free space desktop and select Gadgets, then drag "Weather to the desktop." Also, to solve problems, you can change the city to another and then again return the current location.
You can try to revive the weather gadget. First you need to close the application (click on the cross in the corner of the gadget). Next, go to My computer, open drive C, select the "Users" folder, click on the folder with the username in it, and open it: AppData-Local-Microsoft-Windows Live-Services-Cache.
The AppData folder may not be displayed. To make it visible in Windows 7, press Ctrl + C and select “Service” in the upper menu that appears. Next, select the tab "Folder properties" and choose "Show hidden files and folders ». In Windows 8, this can be done in the top menu by selecting the View tab. This should solve the problem of the error.
Windows cannot connect to the Group Policy Client service
When downloading, a Group Policy Client connection error may appear. This may prevent users from logging in except the administrator. And if several computers are united in one network, then this problem can be very disturbing. There may be other consequences.
You can try to enable the service manually first. To do this, go to the control panel, select System and Security, then Administration and Services. We find the Group Policy Client, right-click and select enable. But this method does not always work.
You can try to roll back the system to an earlier state. Also check if all updates are installed.
The problem may disappear upon reboot, but it won’t get anywhere.
To fix the problem, you can try the following:
- go to Windows under account Administrator and call the line run Win + R - in it we write regedit.exe;
- the registry editor appears in it, open the folder in sequence HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-SOFTWARE-Microsoft-Windows NT-CurrentVersion-Svchost;
- create a GPSvcGroup section in it (right mouse button);
- in the GPSvcGroup section, create two more parameters:
- DWORD (32 bits) Name AuthenticationCapabilities value 0x00003020 (12320) DWORD (32 bits) Name CoInitializeSecurityParam value 0x00000001 (1)
- Reboot.
The most extreme error correction method is to reinstall the system.
