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The City of Brownsville has extended the application deadline for its "Smart City: Back to School Digital Skills Workshop and Laptop Giveaway," aiming to equip students with essential technology and skills for the upcoming academic year. This initiative underscores the city's commitment to...

Over the past decade, East Africa has witnessed a transformative journey in bridging its connectivity gap, largely driven by innovative partnerships and technological advancements. Central to this progress has been the collaboration between Microsoft and local entities, notably Mawingu, aiming...

Sharing your internet connection on a Windows 11 PC through the built-in mobile hotspot feature is a powerful but often overlooked capability—one that can transform your desktop or laptop into a connectivity hub for other devices. Whether you’re facing Wi-Fi dead zones, working in an environment...

Microsoft has recently unveiled a comprehensive cybersecurity initiative aimed at bolstering digital defenses across Africa. This strategic move underscores the tech giant's commitment to enhancing the continent's cybersecurity infrastructure and addressing the escalating cyber threats that...

The Windows 11 requirements page says that a CPU of at least 1 GHz and 2 cores is required. I have a system with a 3.7 GHz 4 core CPU which isn't accepted. Possibly because it's an AMD? The system passes the other tests. Possible solutions: 1. Hack the registry. My understanding is that...

In our current digital landscape, privacy and unrestricted internet access are essential for many users. For those on Windows 11, setting up a proxy server can accomplish both goals effectively. This article will guide you through various methods for configuring a proxy server on Windows 11...

Can anyone advise a program for monitoring installed software that tries to access the internet? Firewall in interactive mode can do this too of course, or Task Manager too, I'm looking for something specialised, with logging or statistics etc. Thanks for the tips Peter

My campus has its own wifi and it requires me to input not just password but also username (my username here would be my student ID number, while password is the password i use for my campus' website accounts), in my Win10 laptop it works just fine, but in my older Win8 laptop, it just won't let...

Ok so i want a batch file that will run in the background and ping a few servers, and then if it gets a response from any of these servers (If it is able to communicate with them), it executes a command. It will be running on a machine that in normal operation has no internet (WAN) access, (For...

Hi, Can I use the windows 10 firewall to firewall specific programs so they cannot get internet access? Thanks in advance.

Hello, everyone. I'm building a virtual lab for fun and I'm running into some issues that I could use some help with. The Default Gateway to my Domain Controller keeps becoming unavailable within a server on the domain. It appears to drop when I try to access the internet from inside the...

Hi, I have a weird bug in Windows 2004 that appears to have cropped earlier with wired networking (e.g., Windows shows no internet access but my internet is working fine.) and although it's more of a cosmetic issue than anything else, I wonder if there is something I can do about it. In short...

When I click on "Internet Access" Icon on the taskbar, I see a list of user names that I do not know. Does this mean these users are getting a free ride on my wifi? Also I find my laptop wakes up from sleep on its own and I wonder if its related to this issue?

hi, we have a 2012 server's nic showing connected to internet but cant ping 8.8.8.8 firewall returns Destination host unreachable though firewall can reach internet. it can ping firewall. all other devices can reach internet. i checked in the firewall and saw ping was allowed and packet was...

Ok, so here is my first issue. I live in a remote area for the moment. I used my sisters username and pass for xfinity to login to a router by me. Issue, i accedently set it as public, not private and no it doesnt work. It says unidentified network. Under properties of the card, it shows no ip...

Hi I have installed packetfence using the ZEN preconfigured version on VMware. Can anyone tell me what i need to configure as i don't think i need to configure everything that is shown on the pdf user guide. Let me explain what i am trying to achieve. I have a number of Draytek 2862Ln model...

My situation is this. I have an 11 year old laptop. This is now ONLY used as a display for a weather station, using a proprietary Windows XP application, so I am not interested in any new Windows features that 1803 might bring. Nevertheless up until now I have let all upgrades proceed. Now...

so today I discovered something majorly wrong with my win10 PC. I tried something simple like accessing Task Manager from the task bar only to receive the following message - " turns out I cant access anyting but the folders and the internet....any administrative function, device manager...

This has been happening recently every time I boot up. Sometimes its "Not connected - No connections are available" or it can be "Network Internet access" when it is connected. It goes when I double click the network icon but that isn't really a solution as it shouldn't get stuck there in the...

Hello everyone, I'm trying to create a few rules in a Windows 2012 Firewall. It's currently joined to a domain and would like the following rules: Allow all internet and LAN access for the security group "admin" block 80, 443, 8443 only for the internet for the security group "user" allow all...