Just wondering if this rings a bell for anyone. I have had a couple of instances where I went from having an internet connection to having none, apparently without a change getting made to the computer, and apparently indeed a problem with my laptop.
The first time, I was online doing some work, and rebooted because I was getting messages about resource exhaustion. This happens. I really need a more powerful computer than I have, and often have many browser tabs open plus photoeditors plus word processing software or whatever, so I thought nothing of it. But I could not log on after than. Eventually determined that the WLAN Autoconfig was set to Manual. I don't recall making this change and since an internet connection is usually the first thing I do when I turn the computer on, I can't imagine that I would have set it to anything but Automatic. I did mess around considerably with the services though before I got them working correctly, but no matter how confused I was at the time I don't think I would have done that. So all is well, it's a couple of weeks later, and I send a couple of emails just as I leave the house, so the computer's internet connection is working then. I come back a couple of hours later and of course the internet connection has timed out. I try to connect again and keep getting messages that I am connected but there is no internet available. DHCP is enabled, DNS is enabled, RPC and WLAN Autoconfig are enabled. Finally discover than the wireless adapter is disabled. Nobody was at home with the computer during this time. Maybe there's some sort of known issue with Windows Update (?) is the only thing I can think of, but not having any success with Google. I don't seem to have any scheduled tasks for this time of day. Any thoughts? The config is Windows 7 on a Toshiba netbook. Noticed when I was trying to help Greg that there's a service pack 1 now, and downloaded it, so it was running for incident #2 but not incident #1. I am running something very close to factory configuration, have lots of space on the hard drive, and Microsoft diagnostics report zero memory errors and no unusual processes. Hijack This agrees on the lack of malware. I usually use Chrome and the onboard wireless adapter. Seems worth asking. If it happens again I'll probably figure it out again, but I'd rather not have to. Thanks for any brainpower that may get devoted to this question. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348285 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
