WiFi Disappeared, WLAN AutoConfig Service Start Failure, SFC Failure

bosohn · Mar 24, 2021

My HP Pavilion notebook was working fine and suddenly WiFi went away. Symptoms and things I tried.
- When computer boots up, on login screen Earth icon appears with stop sign at lower right corner.
- Once logged in, network icon doesn't show up at the right end of task bar
- Opening Network and Sharing Center in Control Panel fails with "The page failed to load."
- Settings -> Network & Internet does not show Wi-Fi and Ethernet options
and clicking on Status makes the Settings window disappear
- Ethernet connection works fine but cannot change any settings for it
- Services shows WLAN AutoConfig service and Windows Connection Manager service as not running
- Starting WLAN AutoConfig Service fails with (The same when started from Services window)

C:\WINDOWS\system32>net start wlansvc
System error 1068 has occurred.

The dependency service or group failed to start.

- Starting Windows Connection Manager fails with

C:\WINDOWS\system32>net start wcmsvc
The Windows Connection Manager service is starting.
The Windows Connection Manager service could not be started.

A system error has occurred.

System error 193 has occurred.

*** is not a valid Win32 application.

- SFC scan fails with

C:\WINDOWS\system32>sfc /scannow

Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 9% complete.

Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation.

- DISM Scanhealth fails with

C:\WINDOWS\system32>dism /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.19041.844

Image Version: 10.0.19041.867

[===========================86.1%================= ]
Error: 4448

The WOF driver encountered a corruption in the compressed file's Resource Table.

The DISM log file can be found at C:\WINDOWS\Logs\DISM\dism.log

- DISM Restorehealth fails with

C:\WINDOWS\system32>dism /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.19041.844

Image Version: 10.0.19041.867

[===========================53.4% ]
Error: 4448

The WOF driver encountered a corruption in the compressed file's Resource Table.

The DISM log file can be found at C:\WINDOWS\Logs\DISM\dism.log

- Tried to restore to the last Windows update but it failed with message saying mobilenetworking.dll could not be extracted
- Tried multiple reboots

Also tried suggestions in the web for SFC failure (safe mode, chkdsk, etc.) but couldn't make SFC work.

I appreciate any help very much.

britechguy · Mar 24, 2021

Try: Doing a Windows 10 Repair Install or Feature Update Using the Windows 10 ISO file

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WiFi Disappeared, WLAN AutoConfig Service Start Failure, SFC Failure

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