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Keeping the Windows 11 Hotspot Always On: A Guide In today's hyper-connected world, staying online is more critical than ever. Whether you're working remotely, binge-watching your favorite series, or simply scrolling through social media, a reliable internet connection forms the backbone of...

Changing your IP address in Windows 11 can be important for a variety of reasons, from improving network security to resolving connectivity issues or even accessing geo-restricted content. Depending on your network configuration, you may find the need to switch between an automatic IP assignment...

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...

I have win10 on a machine on our home lan. the lan functions perfectly for 5 other machines on it. Also for that machine most of the time. but sometimes it will boot with no connection - though 'connections available' and sometimes even with 'no connections found' where the previous night it...

I am seeking help as networking is not my field. I have a Windows 10 Desktop and a Windows 11 Lenovo Laptop. Both are on the same WORKGROUP private network. My Desktop is hard wired to my Vodafone router and my laptop is connected to the same network by Wi-Fi. On my Windows 10 Desktop (under...

When upgrading nb from Win10 to 11Home, sharing stopped working at 100%. I can get to the desktop pc as before, but not to the nb. It is a home network, nb is on wifi, pc on cable to router. Is it in some os setting that I'm not familiar with, or something similar? Sharing is set to all drives...

I use an ASUS RT-AX88U router for my home network which is set to always use a specific IP address (i.e., 192.168.1.111) for my primary computer which has always worked fine for years. More than two months ago, the original ASUS motherboard in my 10+ year-old self-built PC, running Windows 10...

hi, i cant make port forward working for a program. it needs port 31400-31409 for it to work. i hv done the thing below, but the program is not working. i try check if the port is open with online 'port open checking' but it say port is not open. here is what i hv done -set fix ip for the pc to...

Hi Experts , Windows server 2012r2 server is not resolving IPV6 address from local host file . There is no DNS entry for IPV6 and hence I added IPV6 address for my tool server in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\host file . But server failed to resolve the name . Server is still able to resolve...

hello i am trying to use proxies in windows 11 and when i change my proxy settings i get the error message can't reach this page in microsoft edge along with other browsers. thanks a lot.

I am currently having an issue with changing permissions on our networks CN=Computers. When setting up LAPS you must run a command on the organizational units that have your workstations in them. Well our network has been setup where our Headquarter's Computers sit within the CN=Computers...

Hello! When turn on the vpn, when navigate first is going throught vpn, instead my router... So, is there any way to setup default gateway my router when vpn is active?

How do you find open ports in your home network because im trying to make sure my network is more secure and that if something happens im alerted or the problem is taken care of automatically?

My PC randomly lost all abilities to connect through WiFi a couple weeks ago. Only option it gave me to connect to the internet was through an ethernet cable (which isn't feasible). I couldn't figure out how to fix it, so I put my files on an external hard drive and reset the PC to factory...

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I wish to use OpenDNS for filtering out certain websites like Facebook and Twitter for my child, who has their own user on Windows 10, however I do not want these DNS settings to apply to my account. Currently, when the DNS is setup on one user, it is applied across the device. Is there a way...

Hello folks, The machine in question - a Windows 10 Home PC desktop, (Version 20H2 (OS Build 19042.870)), virus scanned running on a Core i7 8086K with 32GB RAM and a GTX 1080ti - cannot seem to get remotely close to the download speeds of any of the others PC and devices on my home WiFi...

I have two connected laptops standing side by side. One is running Windows 10, the other Windows XP. I need XP for some applications, and I am unable to convert them to Windows 10. Until recently I shared the disks of both machines using a LAN connection, allowing me to access the Windows 10...

3 year old printer has worked fine until recently. It started printing lines - voids - thru the words. I did a nozzle check - a cleaning - a deep cleaning - I then printed a test page and nothing printed at all except the image of a printer and the words, windows test page, at the top of the...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20185 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. What’s new in Build 20185 Improving DNS configuration in Settings We’re making a few changes to the Network section in Settings: Making DNS settings more easily...