WIN10 WiFi autoconnect woes

[Nowherewoman]

Posting this here in hope that some smart ferret can help me out- MicroBrain's responses to the issue are either non-germane cut-and-pastes, 3-5 years old, or other combinations of useless. As usual.

I just got a new Lenovo laptop which I'm mostly quite happy with, save for the fact that they have apparently changed WIN10 so that the WIFI whores itself out to everything it can find, trying to autoconnect to anything in range. Yay for security, right?

The problems are manifold:

1) every tine I uncheck the 'connect automatically' button off the task bar, Windows goes ahead and rechecks it once I close the pane
2) since they are classed as 'unknown' networks, since I haven't connected to them (they're all secured), I don't have the 'forget' option
3) The only filter that appears under  Command is my own home network (which, for a while was the only one it WOULDN'T autoconnect to- seem to have that fixed, now, at least), so I can't delete them in command prompt.
4) I followed a hint and uninstalled my WIFI adapter and let it reinstall; no dice.

I know there's a laborious command-line based way to block them one by one- but MS doesn't pay me to do net admin work for them to get by their poor software design. I also don't want to use a blanket black list, b/c I travel for work, and need to be able to discover hotel and venue nets.  Just not AUTO FRIGGING CONNECT TO EVERY SINGLE ONE!

Any thoughts? Am I missing something obvious?  I should also say this is not behavior I saw on the wifi on my outgoing laptop.

[Vekseid]

Have you seen these instructions on Tenforums?

1 Press the Win + R keys to open Run, type ncpa.cpl into Run, and click/tap on OK to open Network Connections.

2 Click/tap on the wireless network (ex: "Brink-Router2").

3 Click/tap on the Wireless Properties button.

4 Check (on) or uncheck (off) Connect automatically when this network is in range for what you want, and click/tap on OK.

5 Click/tap on Close.

6 You can now close Network Connections if you like.

[Nowherewoman]

Thanks, Veks. Unfortunately, that doesn't list the various random Wi-Fi connections floating around. I have about 10 in the 'available connections' list from the taskbar, but ncpa shows only the one I'm actually on- the others are secured, so I'm not connected to them, so that segment of Windows apparently doesn't know they're there.

Interestingly, looking at the list of availables again, it's only forcing an autoattempt on SECURED connections. The one unsecured connection in range, the radio button is off and remains at the state I set it to. For every secured connection, though, it resets itself to 'automatically connect'. Which, of course, since they're secured, it can't do. *headdesk*