Win 10 Wifi Status, not so easy as Win 7 for quick viewing,
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Can anyone solve my question at the bottom of this post. 
On Win 7 you could hover your mouse over you wifi connection and it would show your signal strength and speed, very handy for troubleshooting speed and connectivity problems.
Win 10 doesn't do this easily the easiest way to do this is to right click on the taskbar while hovering over the wifi signal icon then selecting 'open network and internet settings' then on the settings page that opens click on 'change adapter options' which brings up the old style network connections here you can click on your wifi connection that will show your 'wifi status and speed' all that faffing about to get to something on win 7 you could get through on one click, yes I know you can get there via other methods control panel ect, but still a faff.
To make it a bit easier when you get to the 'Wifi Status' that i'm are after you can right click and create a shortcut and put that on your desktop which is a lot more user friendly.
Why am I mentioning all this, my problem is I would like to put that shortcut on the taskbar to make it a single click to get to the Wifi Status in one go. Problem is this fails as the shortcut relates to a registry key in my case {BA126AD1-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E} for that wifi connection and these shortcuts cannot be put on the taskbar.
The nearest I've come to a solution is to create a new shortcut on the desktop pointing to the registry with the path as explorer:: {BA126AD1-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E} unfortunately this fails and just opens explorer and is the method for win 7. See here https://superuser.com/questions/77033/shortcut-to-...
Anyone reckon that have a similar method for win10. Thanks in advance of a solution pistonheads...
On Win 7 you could hover your mouse over you wifi connection and it would show your signal strength and speed, very handy for troubleshooting speed and connectivity problems.
Win 10 doesn't do this easily the easiest way to do this is to right click on the taskbar while hovering over the wifi signal icon then selecting 'open network and internet settings' then on the settings page that opens click on 'change adapter options' which brings up the old style network connections here you can click on your wifi connection that will show your 'wifi status and speed' all that faffing about to get to something on win 7 you could get through on one click, yes I know you can get there via other methods control panel ect, but still a faff.
To make it a bit easier when you get to the 'Wifi Status' that i'm are after you can right click and create a shortcut and put that on your desktop which is a lot more user friendly.
Why am I mentioning all this, my problem is I would like to put that shortcut on the taskbar to make it a single click to get to the Wifi Status in one go. Problem is this fails as the shortcut relates to a registry key in my case {BA126AD1-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E} for that wifi connection and these shortcuts cannot be put on the taskbar.
The nearest I've come to a solution is to create a new shortcut on the desktop pointing to the registry with the path as explorer:: {BA126AD1-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E} unfortunately this fails and just opens explorer and is the method for win 7. See here https://superuser.com/questions/77033/shortcut-to-...
Anyone reckon that have a similar method for win10. Thanks in advance of a solution pistonheads...
Edited by souper on Wednesday 28th February 19:21
Hat tip to Techspot link
Like god mode there is a link to view wireless networks by creating a folder on the desktop and renaming it wireless.{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
Like god mode there is a link to view wireless networks by creating a folder on the desktop and renaming it wireless.{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
Good find, everyone of those god modes worked on the desktop, except for the wireless one it creates the icon but clicking does nothing. I tried changing for the reg key that my wifi status calls but no joy, even if it did work they cannot be pinned to the taskbar.
I tried this by creating a new shortcut from the desktop with the location for my hkey like this C:\Windows\explorer.exe shell:::{BA126AD1-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E}\::{BA126AD1-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E}\::{BA126AD1-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E} but all that does is open explorer.exe. and not the wifi status that it points to.
With task manager running and clicking on the wifi status that I have working on the desktop the only program that it calls is explorer.exe
I guess my problems may be compounded because I'm running win10 pro 64b and run vmware and virtualbox on this laptop. edit apparently not just tried them god modes on another standard win10 laptop all work except the wireless one. Ah well, back to square one.
I tried this by creating a new shortcut from the desktop with the location for my hkey like this C:\Windows\explorer.exe shell:::{BA126AD1-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E}\::{BA126AD1-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E}\::{BA126AD1-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E} but all that does is open explorer.exe. and not the wifi status that it points to.
With task manager running and clicking on the wifi status that I have working on the desktop the only program that it calls is explorer.exe
I guess my problems may be compounded because I'm running win10 pro 64b and run vmware and virtualbox on this laptop. edit apparently not just tried them god modes on another standard win10 laptop all work except the wireless one. Ah well, back to square one.
souper said:
... except for the wireless one it creates the icon but clicking does nothing.....I guess my problems may be compounded because I'm running win10 pro 64b and run vmware and virtualbox on this laptop. edit apparently not just tried them god modes on another standard win10 laptop all work except the wireless one. Ah well, back to square one.
Also tried this and it doesn't work on my Win 10 Home 64bit version - shame as I'd like something similar as well.S6PNJ said:
Also tried this and it doesn't work on my Win 10 Home 64bit version - shame as I'd like something similar as well.
Ahh seems Win10 has messed this up.You can do it via the first part of my post it will create a shortcut to wifi status on your desktop, but you can't put that shortcut on the taskbar which is the problem I'm trying to solve.
In the search bar near the start button type run press enter on the run box type ncpa.cpl press ok or enter this brings up all your network connections. move you mouse over your wifi icon right click in the box that opens select create shortcut select yes to create shortcut on desktop.
You now have a shortcut on desktop to view wifi speed and status, the only part i can't do is put that shortcut on the taskbar.
You now have a shortcut on desktop to view wifi speed and status, the only part i can't do is put that shortcut on the taskbar.
Thanks!
The easy way to get a 'run' box is simply 'windows+r', ie press and hold the windows button and tap the letter r.
Now got the shortcut on my desktop. I've tried copy/pasting the shortcut to
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar
but sadly it doesn't appear, even after a reboot. More searching required!
The easy way to get a 'run' box is simply 'windows+r', ie press and hold the windows button and tap the letter r.
Now got the shortcut on my desktop. I've tried copy/pasting the shortcut to
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar
but sadly it doesn't appear, even after a reboot. More searching required!
Aye millions of ways to get to certain win functions, just seems impossible to put that shortcut on the taskbar.
One thing to mention sometimes when clicking on that shortcut it will revert to opening in that win10 app style which I hate and doesn't give the direct info you need, easy to fix just go to that ncpa.cpl page and open the wifi link from there, then the one on the desktop will work again.
One thing to mention sometimes when clicking on that shortcut it will revert to opening in that win10 app style which I hate and doesn't give the direct info you need, easy to fix just go to that ncpa.cpl page and open the wifi link from there, then the one on the desktop will work again.
Yes well done that does work ideally I'd still like it directly on the taskbar as a single click to get to that info.
Also if you right click on that desktop shortcut go to properties then shortcut tab put mouse in the shortcut key box.
Press ctrl alt w and close this will also allow a three finger shuffle to wifi status.
ideally I'd still like it directly on the taskbar as a single click to get to that info.Also if you right click on that desktop shortcut go to properties then shortcut tab put mouse in the shortcut key box.
Press ctrl alt w and close this will also allow a three finger shuffle to wifi status.
Edited by souper on Thursday 1st March 16:37
Souper, did you get yours working? Mine seems to be having a hissy fit at the moment and when I now click on it, all I get is a pop-up message saying 'enabling' then 'enabled' whereas before (up until about a week or so ago) I used to get the signal strength, quality, and other various info (IP address etc).
Must be a random Windows OS update at a guess.
Must be a random Windows OS update at a guess.
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