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Introduction: A Blast from the Past in the Age of "Modernization"
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I had moved to another area and when I try to remember passwords/access names I get errors from the websites..
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Since yesterday, some of the websites have been opened on WIFI, but not on LAN.
Our users are using Win 7, Win 10 & Win 11. They are trying to open some websites with LAN connection but websites are not opening. When they try to open with WIFI, the websites are working.
In the past, both...
Hello, I have some mini-PC problems, it started when Windows 10 kept pushing updates to flood my 32gb hard drives to a mere 100 mb's in my Asus VivoSticks TS10 making them inoperable. I had to keep deleting updates everyday and could not shut down the automatic updates in the policies no matter...
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