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I have to Reboot to change WIFI sources
I finally got my laptop reinstalled and tweaked the way I like it.
Everything works fine, except for the WIFI. I can connect and get a good solid connection. However, if I change location, I can not connect. In other words, (Example) If I connect at McDonalds in town, use their service for awhile, then drive to the other side of town and try to connect at a bar which has WIFI service, it will not connect. It keeps trying, but nothing happens, and it eventually times out. Even if I return to McDonalds, it will not connect a second time. But, if I reboot, it connects immediately (at both the bar and McDonalds). This is a Lenovo (IBM) T43 Thinkpad. XP-Pro SP3 (just installed). The WIFI adaptor is built in to the computer. The driver software is the same I have used in the past, and I never had this problem before. What could cause this? |
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On 29 Jun 2014, "BillW50" wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: Windows XP SP3 Survey Results http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2008/0...p3-survey-resu lts/ Sad isn't it? SP3 came out after the Vista fiasco. Typical of you to use a 7 year old story to try to justify your bizarre practices. Can't you find anything relevant? I have installed SP3 on scores of PCs and have never had a problem. |
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Nil typed: On 29 Jun 2014, "BillW50" wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: Windows XP SP3 Survey Results http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2008/0...p3-survey-resu lts/ Sad isn't it? SP3 came out after the Vista fiasco. Typical of you to use a 7 year old story to try to justify your bizarre practices. Can't you find anything relevant? I have installed SP3 on scores of PCs and have never had a problem. Every single one I installed with SP3 Outlook Express 6 won't compact the folders.dbx anymore. And don't bother checking yours, as yours is broken too. Bruce Hagen of OE newsgroup (I think it was Bruce anyway) said Microsoft has no plans of even fixing this bug. I personally think they have no interest in fixing any bugs introduced with SP3. Microsoft just wishes that XP just went away. Who knows what time bombs they may lay in SP3 and later updates to make that happen? -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Kingston 120GB SSD - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2 |
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I have to Reboot to change WIFI sources
BillW50 wrote:
In , Nil typed: On 29 Jun 2014, "BillW50" wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: Windows XP SP3 Survey Results http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2008/0...p3-survey-resu lts/ Sad isn't it? SP3 came out after the Vista fiasco. Typical of you to use a 7 year old story to try to justify your bizarre practices. Can't you find anything relevant? I have installed SP3 on scores of PCs and have never had a problem. Every single one I installed with SP3 Outlook Express 6 won't compact the folders.dbx anymore. And don't bother checking yours, as yours is broken too. Bruce Hagen of OE newsgroup (I think it was Bruce anyway) said Microsoft has no plans of even fixing this bug. I personally think they have no interest in fixing any bugs introduced with SP3. Microsoft just wishes that XP just went away. Who knows what time bombs they may lay in SP3 and later updates to make that happen? LOL! XP3 has been working fine for me 24/7 for years. If it doesn't compact folders.dbx, so what? There are other programs you can use for email/usenet if that bothers you. |
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I have to Reboot to change WIFI sources
Bob F explained :
BillW50 wrote: In , Nil typed: On 29 Jun 2014, "BillW50" wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: Windows XP SP3 Survey Results http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2008/0...p3-survey-resu lts/ Sad isn't it? SP3 came out after the Vista fiasco. Typical of you to use a 7 year old story to try to justify your bizarre practices. Can't you find anything relevant? I have installed SP3 on scores of PCs and have never had a problem. Every single one I installed with SP3 Outlook Express 6 won't compact the folders.dbx anymore. And don't bother checking yours, as yours is broken too. Bruce Hagen of OE newsgroup (I think it was Bruce anyway) said Microsoft has no plans of even fixing this bug. I personally think they have no interest in fixing any bugs introduced with SP3. Microsoft just wishes that XP just went away. Who knows what time bombs they may lay in SP3 and later updates to make that happen? LOL! XP3 has been working fine for me 24/7 for years. If it doesn't compact folders.dbx, so what? And XP SP2 has been working fine for me 24/7 for years, so what? One of my machines does have XP SP3 on it and I am not impressed. Not one single new feature. Useless, don't waste my time! There are other programs you can use for email/usenet if that bothers you. Oh you mean ones like: Forté Agent, Windows Live Mail, 40tude Dialog, MesNews, OE Classic, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc? Yeah what a bunch of useless software. These all remind of programmers in training. As they all lack important features. I don't think I have seen a decent program in the last 10 years. Older programs are so much better than the crap they put out today. |
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I have to Reboot to change WIFI sources
In message , BillW50
writes: Bob F explained : [] XP3 has been working fine for me 24/7 for years. If it doesn't compact folders.dbx, so what? And XP SP2 has been working fine for me 24/7 for years, so what? One of my machines does have XP SP3 on it and I am not impressed. Not one single new feature. Useless, don't waste my time! Not one single new feature _that YOU use_. (It also contained bugfixes.) But nobody is forcing you to use SP3 - if you're happy with SP2, stick with it! SP3 has been fine for me since I moved to XP; since I don't use OE, I'm not bothered about some obscure bug relating to it. But I'm certainly not saying _you_ should move to SP3: sounds as if it'd give you no advantage (assuming you don't use any of the other things that were fixed) and one disadvantage. There are other programs you can use for email/usenet if that bothers you. I use the ancient Turnpike (-:. Oh you mean ones like: Forté Agent, Windows Live Mail, 40tude Dialog, MesNews, OE Classic, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc? Yeah what a bunch of useless software. These all remind of programmers in training. As they all lack important features. I don't think I have seen a decent program They all lack what _you_ consider important features, or - more likely - implement those functions in a way you're not used to. Conversely, they may add _new_ features - which, since you've never had them, you don't miss. in the last 10 years. Older programs are so much better than the crap they put out today. I would certainly agree with that in some respects - code size for one. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf I'd be a middle-class hero if I had the time, but I've got to go to Waitrose first. - Tim Vine, RT 2014/2/15-21 |
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I have to Reboot to change WIFI sources
J. P. Gilliver (John) formulated on Saturday :
In message , BillW50 writes: Bob F explained : [] XP3 has been working fine for me 24/7 for years. If it doesn't compact folders.dbx, so what? And XP SP2 has been working fine for me 24/7 for years, so what? One of my machines does have XP SP3 on it and I am not impressed. Not one single new feature. Useless, don't waste my time! Not one single new feature _that YOU use_. (It also contained bugfixes.) Yes, but if I need a bugfix, I install it individually. Like KB909095 for example. I don't need to fix things like not displaying Chinese characters correctly under IE. Heck I can't even read Chinese anyway, so what good would it do me anyway? Plus SP3 also adds new bugs, so what good is that? Microsoft has no plans for SP4 to fix those. And how do you know SP3 and later doesn't contain secret backdoors that Microsoft, Google, Facebook, NSA, etc could use? And what about a time bomb that will make your XP unusable after a so and so date? They are already trying to get XP users to upgrade to a newer version of Windows by claiming XP is so unsecure. And that doesn't seem to scare enough of us to help Microsoft sell more OS. So Microsoft might be able to make updated XP less usable somehow in the future. They could do the same for SP2 machines too, but SP3 machines would be a bigger target. There just aren't enough XP SP2 users to worry about. And speaking about bugs, ever looked for a XP bug list? I have and they don't exist. I did find one comment that claims whoever creates one, Microsoft shuts them down. I don't know how true that is, but it does makes sense that none exists. I don't know what Microsoft could do about such a list posted in newsgroups? Although they could put a Microsoft office on the moon if they wanted to, so maybe they can. But nobody is forcing you to use SP3 - if you're happy with SP2, stick with it! SP3 has been fine for me since I moved to XP; since I don't use OE, I'm not bothered about some obscure bug relating to it. But I'm certainly not saying _you_ should move to SP3: sounds as if it'd give you no advantage (assuming you don't use any of the other things that were fixed) and one disadvantage. But I do have one machine with SP3. And I am not impressed! An extra 1GB of new code for what? Just like that DOTNET junk. 500MB+ worth of libraries just to run a few 10MB applications? Nonsense, they can keep their DOTNET. This one has no DOTNET stuff at all. Some other of my XP machines was not so lucky. As some branded OEM XP SP2 installs puts DOTNET on automatically. Plus Windows 7 and 8 (all versions) does too. There are other programs you can use for email/usenet if that bothers you. I use the ancient Turnpike (-:. Wow! I haven't used Turnpike in years. ;-) Oh you mean ones like: Forté Agent, Windows Live Mail, 40tude Dialog, MesNews, OE Classic, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc? Yeah what a bunch of useless software. These all remind of programmers in training. As they all lack important features. I don't think I have seen a decent program They all lack what _you_ consider important features, or - more likely - implement those functions in a way you're not used to. Conversely, they may add _new_ features - which, since you've never had them, you don't miss. Yes, but I use others all of the time to keep up with them all. Same with office suites. And spending all of that time with them, I still like OE6 and MS Office 2000 better than anything else. I am using MesNews right now (I like to switch applications a lot). I never did ever figure out how to toggle threaded view off. Threaded view is nice from time to time, but I don't always like it. in the last 10 years. Older programs are so much better than the crap they put out today. I would certainly agree with that in some respects - code size for one. I run some of the newer stuff from time to time, but I like the older stuff much better. If I was just a kid, I would probably like the newer stuff more. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Kingston 120GB SSD - MesNews Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2 |
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I have to Reboot to change WIFI sources (now SP3 and general rambling!)
In message , BillW50
writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) formulated on Saturday : In message , BillW50 writes: Bob F explained : [] XP3 has been working fine for me 24/7 for years. If it doesn't compact folders.dbx, so what? And XP SP2 has been working fine for me 24/7 for years, so what? One of my machines does have XP SP3 on it and I am not impressed. Not one single new feature. Useless, don't waste my time! Not one single new feature _that YOU use_. (It also contained bugfixes.) Yes, but if I need a bugfix, I install it individually. Like KB909095 That assumes you know you need it. You say you haven't found a list of bugs, so you can't know them all ... (yes, obviously the opposite probably also applies, whatever that is.) for example. I don't need to fix things like not displaying Chinese characters correctly under IE. Heck I can't even read Chinese anyway, so what good would it do me anyway? Plus SP3 also adds new bugs, so what good is that? Microsoft has no plans for SP4 to fix those. And how do you know SP3 and later doesn't contain secret backdoors that Microsoft, Google, Facebook, NSA, etc could use? And what about a time bomb that will make your XP unusable after a so and so date? They are already trying to get XP users to upgrade to a newer version of Windows by claiming XP is so unsecure. And that doesn't seem to scare enough of us to help Microsoft sell more OS. So Microsoft might be able to make updated XP less usable somehow in the future. They could do the same for SP2 machines too, but SP3 machines would be a bigger target. There just aren't enough XP SP2 users to worry about. All true, though I would be mildly surprised if any such nasties were only in SP3. It's academic for me, anyway: this machine came with SP3. And speaking about bugs, ever looked for a XP bug list? I have and they don't exist. I did find one comment that claims whoever creates one, Microsoft shuts them down. I don't know how true that is, but it does makes sense that none exists. I don't know what Microsoft could do Does also sound a little paranoid, in its non-disprovability. about such a list posted in newsgroups? Although they could put a Microsoft office on the moon if they wanted to, so maybe they can. Hmm. [] But I do have one machine with SP3. And I am not impressed! An extra 1GB of new code for what? Just like that DOTNET junk. 500MB+ worth of libraries just to run a few 10MB applications? Nonsense, they can keep which would be a lot more than 10MB if the libraries weren't there. (Not that, in many cases, third-party app.s don't exist that are just as small and _don't_ need .net.) their DOTNET. This one has no DOTNET stuff at all. Some other of my XP machines was not so lucky. As some branded OEM XP SP2 installs puts DOTNET on automatically. Plus Windows 7 and 8 (all versions) does too. There are other programs you can use for email/usenet if that bothers you. I use the ancient Turnpike (-:. Wow! I haven't used Turnpike in years. ;-) Wow, I haven't met anyone outside the Turnpike newsgroup that has even heard of it! (Development finally stopped in about 2007.) Oh you mean ones like: Forté Agent, Windows Live Mail, 40tude Dialog, MesNews, OE Classic, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc? Yeah what a bunch of useless software. These all remind of programmers in training. As they all lack important features. I don't think I have seen a decent They all lack what _you_ consider important features, or - more likely - implement those functions in a way you're not used to. Conversely, they may add _new_ features - which, since you've never had them, you don't miss. Yes, but I use others all of the time to keep up with them all. Same with office suites. And spending all of that time with them, I still like OE6 and MS Office 2000 better than anything else. I am using Turnpike and Office 2003 (2000 might have done me but I don't think I ever had it - I think I only have 2003 because my employer and Microsoft had a free-for-employees offer; without that I might have still been on '95-issue-97). MesNews right now (I like to switch applications a lot). I never did ever figure out how to toggle threaded view off. Threaded view is nice from time to time, but I don't always like it. I hardly ever use the other view in Turnpike. in the last 10 years. Older programs are so much better than the crap they put out today. I would certainly agree with that in some respects - code size for one. I run some of the newer stuff from time to time, but I like the older stuff much better. If I was just a kid, I would probably like the newer stuff more. Maybe. I guess I tend to run a generation or two behind. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950) |
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