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Well after the threat of the police to the kids the home group that was created has vanished I reset the router password last night and then refreshed it to kick everyone off the connection so only I had the password and within an hour there was an unknown device connected again, my sons xbox one is showing up twice on the router now with the same mac address but with a different unique identifier, my laptop is still not right and needs wiping as I can't remove whatever is hidden in the registry, confused? you will be.
I've found lately that trying to do a first update after a Windows 7 re-install takes all day just to recognise that updates are available, amd then another day to download and install them.
I found this handy download (32 bit or 64 bit) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3102810
Then, after you install, restart the pc and go to Windows Updates / Search for updates and within minutes it finds the first massive chunk of updates. I've used it twice now. Saved me days of waiting.
Oh and Ninite is great as well. Shame they removed adobe reader from it.
Noice That'll come in handy. I've involuntarily become the sys-admin of 4 Windows installations in this house (2 PC's, 2 laptops) and with the gaming stuff my daughter is always downloading I find a good old-fashioned format and reinstall is necessary once in a while.
The other day she sauntered over to me and asked about DNS settings because she wanted to set up a proxy. She's 9.
I sympathise - the amount of time you can waste on computers is frightening...
I've found setting up clear directories and keeping backups of only your personal data on a separate external hard drive is the best way to deal with issues like this when they inevitably crop up. You can then just delete everything and reinstall a clean version of the OS on your machine and then just leave your external hard drive to copy back to the laptop.
Are you able to get a version of Win 7 to reinstall from your original supplier of your laptop? They should be able to do this if you ask.
That's without even trying to fix them
I have been offered a disc but I'm not sure if it's worth the effort as the battery wont charge on here either, might just look for another one, on the plus side I've learnt quite a bit while pulling my hair out over the last few days.
I am sure you will know about it, but incase you dont
Norton Ghost is great for that, just get the PC setup as you want it, create a " image " and its really easy and fast to " format " and reinstall the " image "
when ever i set-up PC's, i always do it, i have a HD full of all the images of the PC's i have set-up here, one of the companies i work do a little work for i talking about updating the 6 PC's in the office, I will set them up, " ghost " them and then if / when they have issues, just install the image again, saves loads of time
as a side note, you can also charge them to do monthly / quarterly / 1/2 yearly backup's
Alternatively, have a look at Acronis