Wireless Capability is turned off / Hardware Radio Switch Off (Only on Windows 7)

[Michael154]

Hello, HP Community.

I've just got myself my first laptop that's HP 250 G6 Notebook PC. I've had it with pre-installed windows 10, but I wanted to downgrade it to Windows 7 Ultimate, as the laptop operates quite faster on WIndows 7, than it does on Windows 10 for some reason. However, as I installed Windows 7, all hell broke loose. To my surprise I discovered that both Intel and HP forums don't quite support drivers for windows 7, so I was forced to use Driver Pack (aka DriverPack Solution). I installed the full package of drivers and everything seemed fine at first, until I noticed something weird - My Wireless wasn't working. For the past 2 days now I've been trying every possible solution that I could get my hands on from troubleshooting to BIOS adjustments, to booting ubuntu alongside Windows 7, to testing every possible driver that's even slightly related to HP 200 series with little to no result. Best I could manage was to set up an Cable connection and Cable Network Sharing from my phone, still I couldn't manage to get my Wireless adapter to work, including my Bluetooth device.

From what I've gather, it appears to be an issue that only occurs with Windows 7 in particular. All of my Laptop functions and drivers work just fine with Windows 10 and Ubuntu. The thing is that with Windows 10, my laptop is almost constantly using 100% of its CPU on fresh windows 10 installation, with only IE working and a Task Manager opened, which is absurd and Ubuntu just doesn't suit my needs as an OS. 

I'm absolutely desperate for help to try and solve this issue on my current Windows 7 OS. I'm currently having every driver imaginable installed and working, including Intel PROSET/WIreless WiFi Connection Utility. I couldn't get anything to wake the Bluetooth up, tho, it's not even listed as a missing driver or anything.

My WiFi driver is "Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168", power management options are off, BIOS is enabled and I'm on the edge of my sanity.

I'd deeply appreciate any help that you could throw my way. 

Thank you!