Safe Mode with Networking: no network access

[Phab]

Answer to your question: my WIn10-Pro upgrade is via web download and validation with a legit product key.

Additional perspective regarding SAFE mode: this PC does not have an Ethernet port; when I boot in Safe Mode with Networking both Bluetooth and Wi-fi are turned off and I cannot find a way to turn on at least the wi-fi. I think that is the reason that I don't get Network functinality; neither to LAN nor Internet.  Do you have any help on this topic?

The real problem is Windows Audio Device Graph Isolation (WADGI). For sure WADGI starts up when I start Skype and hogs 25+% of my CPU and for sure it does not end when I close Skype and it continues hogging 25+% of my CPU. Other audio applications use WADGI but at less than 1% of CPU. I have seen WADGI running at 25+% despite not using Skype or any  audio application but I cannot reliably reproduce the symptom. The Skype correlation is alwyas there. Is this likely to be a Windows issue, an audio driver issue, a Skype issue, or a PC hardware issue?

[Barachiel]

@Phab

Thanks for the response.

If that's the case, I would recommend you to re-install windows as you did earlier. 🙂

Regards,

[Phab]

I did some searching around and found this explanation on the Microsoft Community forum explaining that in Windows 10 the wireless adapter is disabled in Safe mode. Two manual methods are suggested and I tried both without success.

Method 1: Right clicking on Network Adapter in Device Manager does not have an "Enable" option.

Method 2: Running Services.msc and then trying to start WLANAutoConfig manually returns Error 1084: WLANAutoConfig cannot be started in Safe Mode.

This does not sound like I have a problem with my Windows installation but rather that wireless connectivity is disabled by design. Do you have any perspective on this?

[Barachiel]

@Phab

Thanks for the reply.

I'm sending out a Private message with the required information's,

Good Luck. 🙂