O.T. - Connection Problem:

Here's my Avast information:

http://i63.tinypic.com/21j56bk.jpg


I'm not aware that I'm using any VPN software
but perhaps the VA site does since it's a third
party software? That's the only medical I have
and use. I'm disabled and not working.

Yes, but even so the computer didn't have this
problem previously and the 780 runs fine. What
I don't understand is shouldn't the System Restore,
and Mrimg taken care of the problem unless they
are were infected? I used a Mrimg from May
thinking it was far enough back.

The thing is everything shows the computer is 'normal'
but it's not yet today it booted up and connected like
nothing was wrong with no issues. See what I mean?
It's a strange intermittent problem.

Robert


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Mark Twain wrote:
Here's my Avast information:

http://i63.tinypic.com/21j56bk.jpg


I'm not aware that I'm using any VPN software
but perhaps the VA site does since it's a third
party software? That's the only medical I have
and use. I'm disabled and not working.

Yes, but even so the computer didn't have this
problem previously and the 780 runs fine. What
I don't understand is shouldn't the System Restore,
and Mrimg taken care of the problem unless they
are were infected? I used a Mrimg from May
thinking it was far enough back.

The thing is everything shows the computer is 'normal'
but it's not yet today it booted up and connected like
nothing was wrong with no issues. See what I mean?
It's a strange intermittent problem.

Robert

And "when it has a good day", how does the content
of Event Viewer differ ?

Paul

Since it has booted and startup was normal
with no issues yesterday and today we'll
call today a 'good' day:

Here's the Event Viewer:

http://i66.tinypic.com/2i9o1w4.jpg - event viewer

http://i63.tinypic.com/15zqkn4.jpg - errors

http://i64.tinypic.com/o0nd6b.jpg - warnings

http://i66.tinypic.com/2lwkcqf.jpg - information

http://i67.tinypic.com/24lkjzk.jpg - 7036 service control (only number that stood out)

http://i67.tinypic.com/59n2t.jpg - end of information

Robert

Mark Twain wrote:
Since it has booted and startup was normal
with no issues yesterday and today we'll
call today a 'good' day:

Here's the Event Viewer:

http://i66.tinypic.com/2i9o1w4.jpg - event viewer

http://i63.tinypic.com/15zqkn4.jpg - errors

http://i64.tinypic.com/o0nd6b.jpg - warnings

http://i66.tinypic.com/2lwkcqf.jpg - information

http://i67.tinypic.com/24lkjzk.jpg - 7036 service control (only number that stood out)

http://i67.tinypic.com/59n2t.jpg - end of information

Robert

In your errors (where I was looking before), you have
two DHCP entries. Now, those could be "the service has
started" type messages. Or, there could be errors present.

What I look for first, is messages that might have something
to do with networking. DHCP is Dynamic Host Control Protocol,
a way of getting local IP addresses from the home router.
(I'm sure there's a lot more to it than that, but that's
all we need in the current IPV4 environment.)

*******

7036 sounds familiar, but I don't memorize all these things :-)

ID: 7036
Source: Service Control Manager
Symbolic Name: EVENT_SERVICE_STATUS_SUCCESS

So that's just the Service Control Manager waving hello at you :-)
Apparently that's important enough, to waste an entry in
the Event Viewer.

Paul

I wish there were some diagnosis we could run,.
strange none of the scans pick up anything,..

I guess we have to wait until it starts acting
up again.

Robert

I wish there were some diagnostics we could run,.
strange none of the scans pick up anything,.. ?

I guess we have to wait until it starts acting
up again.

Robert

I used Agent Ransack to search for
dhcp files:

http://i63.tinypic.com/2mcg4t0.jpg

http://i67.tinypic.com/295dent.jpg

http://i67.tinypic.com/30w8n69.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/2vaz4id.jpg

http://i63.tinypic.com/jqte2e.jpg

http://i66.tinypic.com/2ynm1hd.jpg

Robert

Have the bar/sunburst in the system tray again:

http://i65.tinypic.com/zjw0gw.jpg

I found this (same problem):

http://www.makeuseof.com/answers/win...-network-icon/

Thoughts/suggestions?
Robert

Mark Twain wrote:
Have the bar/sunburst in the system tray again:

http://i65.tinypic.com/zjw0gw.jpg

I found this (same problem):

http://www.makeuseof.com/answers/win...-network-icon/

Thoughts/suggestions?
Robert

When you restored, it turned your Wifi back on again.

In the Mobility control panel, you might be able to
turn it off there, or use Disable in the Network
control panel collection of controls.

*******

Although, that is an impressive collection of icons.

Three yellow things. One Wifi, one Avast maybe?,
and the third one I cannot even hazard a guess.

And the makeuseof is scattershot and all over the place.
I don't think your icons are a notification problem, the
Wifi and the Avast are of their own doing, so they don't
need coaxing. And while the usual commands are listed

netsh winsock reset
netsh int ip reset

the network troubleshooter should be doing those for you.

I'm not against issuing commands, just make sure you
know what they're doing. For example, if you were to
delete entries in the protocol stack, it might be harder
to find a proper recipe to put them back - sometimes
the damage is easier to do, than the later repair.

Paul

The 8500 came normally again with no issues
and was connected in about 6 minutes.

Here's are the Network Connections,. it seems
that the Wireless Connection is active.

http://i66.tinypic.com/2v16j52.jpg - LAN

http://i68.tinypic.com/2mgqlw3.jpg - Wireless Network 3 connection
(are those users that were connecting via the 8500) ?

http://i63.tinypic.com/w2lfl5.jpg Wireless Network properties

http://i65.tinypic.com/2hxajoy.jpg - Wireless Connection 2 properties

http://i67.tinypic.com/199evo.jpg - disable wireless? (before)

http://i66.tinypic.com/90y7t4.jpg - disabled

I agree, which is why I ran it past you and trying
to nail down a intermittent problem isn't easy.

Robert

Mark Twain wrote:
The 8500 came normally again with no issues
and was connected in about 6 minutes.

Here's are the Network Connections,. it seems
that the Wireless Connection is active.

http://i66.tinypic.com/2v16j52.jpg - LAN

http://i68.tinypic.com/2mgqlw3.jpg - Wireless Network 3 connection
(are those users that were connecting via the 8500) ?

http://i63.tinypic.com/w2lfl5.jpg Wireless Network properties

http://i65.tinypic.com/2hxajoy.jpg - Wireless Connection 2 properties

http://i67.tinypic.com/199evo.jpg - disable wireless? (before)

http://i66.tinypic.com/90y7t4.jpg - disabled

I agree, which is why I ran it past you and trying
to nail down a intermittent problem isn't easy.

Robert


2mgqlw3.jpg - Wireless Network 3 connection

The four items are the routers of other people.
The router sends out its ID, making it easier
for the users of those routers to find them
in the connection menus.

Typically what you see in a neighborhood, is at
least some of those are owned by ISPs.

*******

One of your Wifi devices makes reference to "Virtual PC"
which is virtual hosting software. The only thing I know
of that even comes close on your machine, is the
Avast Sandbox. When you turned off the Wifi, the
miniport one running beside it disappeared as well.
One less thing to worry about.

Paul

Yes, I noticed the mini-port also
disappeared when I disabled the
Wi-fi.


It took the 8500 only 3 minutes to
connect although to be fair, I still
had the modem powered on when I booted
the 8500.

The Action Center flag appeared then
disappeared then came back but everything
seems normal


Robert

I timed the 8500 again and it took 6 minutes
from shutdown boot startup connected and no
issues.

The Quicktime/Apple update pop-up appeared again
and this time I selected only Quicktime since
you pointed out I already have it.

I forget where I saw it but I had Google Chrome
installed and so uninstalled that but Avast gave
me a pop-up saying parts of Google Chrome did
not uninstall.

I didn't initiate the Avast program to delete them
because I'm leery of things just popping up and
saying let me fix this for you. Even if it is Avast
saying it.


Robert

Mark Twain wrote:
I timed the 8500 again and it took 6 minutes
from shutdown boot startup connected and no
issues.

The Quicktime/Apple update pop-up appeared again
and this time I selected only Quicktime since
you pointed out I already have it.

I forget where I saw it but I had Google Chrome
installed and so uninstalled that but Avast gave
me a pop-up saying parts of Google Chrome did
not uninstall.

I didn't initiate the Avast program to delete them
because I'm leery of things just popping up and
saying let me fix this for you. Even if it is Avast
saying it.


Robert

I just tested here now, and an install of Chrome actually
cleaned up after itself on Windows 10. I'm shocked! I expect
to see crap all over the place. I do know that in the past,
it left stuff running, so that's not a surprise.

These are the things I found, while it was installed.

https://s10.postimg.org/a6xwmbw09/google_annoy.gif

The one at the bottom, was a bit strange. The installer
was still running, after I rebooted the computer. I don't
know what their intention was for that one. Uninstalling
Chrome removes that.

The one in the middle, the Task Scheduler entries, are meant
to "undo damage" a user might do to their "services". You would
"Disable" the items in the middle first, before attacking
the ones in the top pane.

And the ones at the top were spotted in Services. So those
would be hiding in a SVCHOST.

I would guess that it is a run of the ones in the middle,
that causes an entry to appear in Task Manager.

Happy hammering,
Paul

I did a scan on Agent Ransack for
Google Chrome:

http://i68.tinypic.com/2cmq83s.jpg

then did a Startsearch and typed in
Chrome and it gave me this:

http://i66.tinypic.com/x1detc.jpg

and so I deleted it.

Robert