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Vista “unidentified network” can’t surf the net

By on Friday, May 21st, 2010 | 43 Comments

Came across an interesting problem the other day where a friend could not surf the net as Vista was displaying ‘unidentified network’ when trying to connect to her wireless router. Wired (ie ethernet cable) was fine. What I did notice was that from a command prompt, an ‘ipconfig’ command did not give an IP on [...]

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Vista update installing 3 of 3 loop

By on Friday, May 16th, 2008 | No Comments

Got a call from mate the other day. His laptop running Vista appeared to be stuck installing an update (which we later worked out to be SP1), and continuously rebooting. The laptop was displaying ‘installing 3 of 3′ which didn’t really tell him too much. The fact that he wasn’t even getting into windows severely [...]

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