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If your Forex login fails after your Windows 10 PC wakes from sleep, open Command Prompt as admin and run net stop NlaSvc && net start NlaSvc to reboot the network stack—then refresh your broker’s page.

What’s Happening

When your Windows 10 machine sleeps, the Network Location Awareness service (NlaSvc) can get stuck in a stale state. Your Forex platform still has an internet route on paper, but the live socket is orphaned. Windows 10 build 22H2 and later cache the old route until the service is explicitly restarted. No registry edits or driver updates are required—just a quick NlaSvc reset.

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Open an elevated Command Prompt
   • Press Win + X, choose Terminal (Admin).
   • If you still see “Command Prompt” instead of “Terminal”, right-click Start → Run, type cmd, then press Ctrl + Shift + Enter.
2. Stop and restart the Network Location Awareness service
   • Type this command and press Enter:

     net stop NlaSvc && net start NlaSvc

   • The command returns “The Network Location Awareness service was stopped successfully” followed by “The Network Location Awareness service was started successfully”.
3. Flush the DNS cache
   • In the same elevated window, run:

     ipconfig /flushdns

4. Refresh your Forex platform
   • Close and reopen your browser or trading terminal.
     If you use MetaTrader 4/5, right-click the icon → Exit, wait 10 s, then restart it.

If This Didn’t Work

• Reboot the network adapter
  1. Press Win + X → Device Manager.
  2. Expand Network adapters, right-click your Wi-Fi or Ethernet adapter → Disable device.
  3. Wait 15 s, then right-click again → Enable device.
• Temporarily disable Windows Auto-Tuning
  1. Open elevated Command Prompt and run:

     netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=restricted

  2. Restart the PC.
     After testing, restore default with:

     netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal

• Switch DNS servers
  • Go to Settings → Network & Internet → Wi-Fi/Ethernet → Hardware properties → DNS server assignment.
  • Tap Edit, choose Manual, enter 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8, then save.
    These are Cloudflare and Google DNS, respectively.

Prevention Tips

• Keep Windows Update on—Microsoft issued fixes in KB5023705 that hardened NlaSvc after sleep states.
• Disable “Allow the computer to turn off this device” for your network adapter:
  • Device Manager → Network adapters → Properties → Power Management tab → uncheck “Allow the computer to turn off this device”.
• Use a wired connection when possible—Ethernet doesn’t suffer the same sleep-induced socket leaks as Wi-Fi.
• Bookmark your broker’s status page (e.g., IBKR Status, Saxo Bank Status) so you can rule out outages before troubleshooting.