Network and sharing center crashing

[Blade0448]

Hi. I have a 4 year old laptop with Windows 7 and lately the network and sharing center has been crashing. It happens after I have turned on the computer from sleep. The taskbar shows the wireless signal icon with a blue loading circle and I cannot connect to the internet. The only way to fix it I’ve found is to reboot and even then it sometimes still crashes. Also, when this glitch happens the CPU Usage in Task manager sits at a constant 25% for both the green and red lines.

I’ve run Malwarebytes with no results and tried a system restore to 2 weeks ago with no success. Resetting the network card or plugging into ethernet cable directly doesn’t fix it either. Not sure what else to do, just seems like some weird glitch. Any ideas?

 

[thejackal85]

Try reinstalling the network drivers. However, don't download them from Windows Update, get them from the manufacture website. If that still doesn't work, run a command prompt (run as admin) and run the sfc /scannow command

Let us know how it goes!

 

[Blade0448]

Try reinstalling the network drivers. However, don't download them from Windows Update, get them from the manufacture website. If that still doesn't work, run a command prompt (run as admin) and run the sfc /scannow command

Let us know how it goes!

This worked! Thank you. I used Driver Talent to scan my drivers and apparently my bluetooth driver was corrupted so I reinstalled it. It was causing a memory leak (affecting ntoskrnl.exe) which caused the high CPU usage.

 

[thejackal85]

Nice job!