Windows 11 Dropping Wi-Fi on Boot? Blame Your VPN Kill Switch

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Every developer has a familiar morning ritual: power on the workstation, grab a fresh cup of coffee, fire up the terminal, and wait for local containers and background daemons to spin up. Except lately, Windows 11 has been injecting an infuriating obstacle into that workflow: roughly five to ten seconds after reaching the desktop, your Wi-Fi silently disconnects. You open the network tray, hit connect manually, and it reconnects immediately without missing a beat for the rest of the workday. Reboot tomorrow, however, and the cycle repeats. If you run an always-on VPN with a persistent, strict

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