![]() Yes, a lot of users are stuck in Airplane mode on Windows 10 due to some sort of a glitch. While Airplane Mode is helpful to work offline and conserve battery life, things can get frustrating if it doesn’t turn off when required. Besides the internet, Airplane Mode also disables other connectivity options like Bluetooth and cellular networks. That’s what happens when Windows 10 is stuck in Airplane mode. I understand when people say they will have to learn that's all well and good but staff are still are not super confident with technology.Imagine the internet on your Windows PC stops working without any explanation. People cannot tell if the device is in airplane mode or not!ĭoesn't even help the registry settings are unique to each device and just changing registry keys isn't enough to turn off airplane mode. Worse still because we hide access to the WiFi configuration on the logon screen so the darlingsĭon't mess around with those settings. Totally the same boat as you, Educational establishment running Dell laptops and Airplane mode driving us mad with the OS not honoring the disabled switch setting. After all airplane mode is common amongst phones, tablets and computers so they should know how to locate and flip a switch or use the Fn + function key I guess this is something the teachers and students are going to have to learn. I even tried disabling that driver all together leaving the device uninstalled in device manager and while that works it seems the driver eventually gets installed ![]() If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact I have tried using the latest drivers for both the airplane switch and wireless card. Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help. The wifi configuration is related to the specific device ID(as I stated before), mine is located in: The airplane mode is corresponding to this registry key: I have tried to capture the corresponding configurations on my Windows 10 machine. Have you tried the drivers from the Dell website? I was hoping some way to do it through GPO or a more universal registry setting.Ĭomputers are running Windows 10 Enterprise. In my searches I have found some that did it through registry but it seemed to be specific to the wifi card of the device and that is not very helpful in the long run. I honestly do not understand how a common feature like airplane mode that is found on every phone, tablet, or computer is so confusing. Long story short I need a way to disable airplane mode on these laptop carts because despite sending out information showing the Airplane Mode Icon and pictures of what the wireless switch looks like I am back where I started years ago where constant callsĪnd complaints of the few carts I have upgraded already. Well fast forward to 2016 and we are deploying Windows 10 and it appears that on the computers we have with physical wireless switches will still put the computer in Airplane mode despite the switch being disabled in the BIOS. They started using the carts more and did not complain that technology never ![]() This was wonderful and literally cut our support calls and teacher complaints greatly. Switches on the laptops and disabling the WiFi so I set the BIOS setting to disable the switch. When I first started this job years ago there was a huge problem of students flipping the wireless OK I work in education and we have several carts of laptops from Dell but also some other brands as well like Lenovo and Microsoft Surface devices.
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