HP laptop with Windows 10: Wi-Fi keeps on turning off whenever a radio (or ethernet) is connected 😡

I recently had this problem on one of my sandbox machines. As soon as you plug in a MOTOTRBO radio, Wi-Fi turns off (i.e. the adapter itself gets turned off and the above blue button goes grey). 

This was something new as I had Windows 10 running on this machine before and never had this problem.

As soon as the radio was unplugged or turned off, the PC would turn Wi-Fi on again. Somehow something in Windows was thinking that the radio was a wired internet connection - which it isn't!

If I tried to turn Wi-Fi on, it'd turn off again almost immediately.

Disabling Allow Windows to turn this device off to save power did not help and there is no Disabled Upon Wired Connect option in the device properties.

Updating the device driver made no difference.

Changing the interface metric does nothing since the adapter gets turned off rather than just disconnecting.

I found some information on the internet which suggested to modify something in the group policy as well as add an entry to the registry - neither worked.

What worked in my case, is to go to Windows Services and look for HP LAN/WLAN/WWAN Switching UWP Service. Disable it and set it to start Manually. Problem solved!

Note that this only works on HP computers with Wi-Fi. This is something that presumably came with one of the Windows 10 updates (I have version 10.0.19045). There is no means to uninstall this and I didn't install any HP bloatware. I guess this service makes sense for consumers to prevent them from being connected to the same network via two different connections.

Other PC vendors may also have something like this. If you know of any, please add it to the comments.

This is different from the problems described in these two posts: Error 1687, now what? and MOTOTRBO "Newbie" questions about programming and CPS.