Problem with wireless adapter or Access point

i have had this issue for years now. my laptop came with windows 8, widows 7 and presently i am using windows 10 all with the same issue. i have tried many steps to solve this issue without any luck.

i believe it's caused by two most likely culprits.  

one possible cause is the router or modem you connect to using your wifi. most modems auto change channels and when it rolls to a new channel that your wifi is not configured to you loose your connection. 

two, windows updates installs a new driver that does not work correctly with your computer. your system shows the network adapter is working correctly and you have the latest driver update, but it's the wrong driver. in windows 10 there is no way of preventing new updates to be installed as of 10/2016.

I have an Asus S451LB, it comes with windows 8 preinstaled. I did an upgrade in the day it arrived to 8.1 and in the day widows 10 was aviable - i upgraded.

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windows8sucksbadly it is possible for you to have transfered a virus from google chrome as if you logged in with your google account and it was attached to your account from previous browsing on google on your old computer also virus can be attached to website domains any browsing could have contracted it but doesn't nessessarly mean its a virus could be a fault adapter after all technology isit flawless half that reason being its designed to be flawed if things lasted forever company wouldn't maxiumize their profits unfortunitly companys are greedy but thats just a theory now isit it.

i have a similar problem my connectivity seems like its female hot and cold i do a repair and it says problem with router adapter repairs but 5 minutes later i do another repair and it finds a fault my computer is about a year old running windows 7 so may be a virus may be a fault with the driver and needs updating to fix the bug but when my computer does a windows update it totally packs up start getting the yellow symbol i can do a series of repairs and fiddling to get it going but if i do this a week or two later i get nothing so i do a system recovery and reset it to factory setting and it fixs the problem i have to do this every few months which is annoying i lost countless photos of my son i do not see much he lives in another state i'm devo anyway i'm thinking of trying to update my wireless adapter see how i go but theres also the thought of an intruder on my internet connection maybe changing my adapter settings on me or quite possible a virus that changes the setting or maybe its something to do with the registry or could be the router its self not sure if routers can contract a virus of some sort but anyway very annoying

Microsoft fixes the problem for me every day (as this happens daily) and it does so very quickly. It advises me that there is a problem with my wireless adapter or access point.  Although I am able to get a "fix" for the problem, it bugs me.  My desktop is less than a year old (Dell Inspiron 23 Model 5348 AIO). I fear that if I am having issues with this Dell so soon after purchasing that more headaches are on the way.

I just want to understand what exactly this problem is and if it is due to the Dell Hardware.  

UPDATE:  I just went to device manager and updated the drivers for my Dell Wireless Adapter.  Hopefully, this will take care of the problem.  Wish I had thought of doing that weeks ago.