Networking: How to fix the most common wired and wireless home computer network and Internet problems
Using diagnostic flowcharts to diagnose and fix hardware problems with PC components As you can see from looking at any of the diagnostic flowcharts made available from the following link, there are no photo-illustrations or explanations of basic computer functions. The intended audience is the hobbyist or technician who already has some experience of repairing…
Warning: Adobe Flash Player only uses the online Global settings not a computer’s onboard local Control Panel settings for Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers The Adobe Flash Player is now producing a warning, shown in the image below, when you open its applet in the Windows Control Panel. It states that if you are using…
Windows 7 computer takes several minutes to get online followed by frequent disconnections that eventually stop occurring Problem After a cold boot or reboot, a Windows 7 computer takes several minutes to get online. This is followed by several, unpredictable disconnections that eventually stop happening. Remedies tried unsuccessfully: checking the wireless network adapter and ADSL…
Recently my laptop computer that runs a dual-boot Windows XP Pro SP3/Windows 7 SP1 setup somehow, while running XP, got infected with the Yontoo Desktop toolbar (there is plenty of information on it on the web) that delivers ads and had its Firefox web browsers hijacked by a website called dispatch.tv. The set home page…
There are two main ways to extend the range of a home network, which work well for most users but for a few reasons don’t for a minority of users. A range extender or repeater is a device that extends the range of a wireless network. It should be plugged into the mains about half…
It’s usually when your laptop, smartphone or tablet has been connected to a particular wireless hotspot that connection problems arise – it uses the same settings to reconnect but without going through the redirect/sign-in page properly, connecting to the local hotspot’s router but not to the Internet. To fix the problem make the device forget…
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