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Markign this so I can check on it later when I'm in a house.
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I was working on a students computer, and after a restart following the removal of McAfee Security Suite, Vista did not want to update. The solution was rather simple, once I found it. After some googling, I found this, and the solution was both simple and elegant. The short version: uninstall the wired network connection and have it installed by the system again. While a winsock fix of some kind might have done the job, this was just as easy to do.
- From the Start menu, select Control Panel.
- Select Hardware and Sound.
- Select Device Manager. Click Continue when the User Account Control window appears.
- Under network adapters, remove the wired Ethernet controller/connection.
- If Windows does not re-detect the hardware, select Network adapters (or the name of the computer at the top of the item tree) and from the menu select Action > Scan for hardware changes.
Saw this on Treehugger and had to share.
I’m sure this is going to be an issue I’ll encounter with webhosting no matter where I go; fsockopen will have issues.
- My current host, aplus.net, is not an option anymore.
- Webhostingbuzz won’t work for me unless I go with a virtual private server, which would probably run me $30 to $50 a month.
- SurpassHosting might be an option, I’m just waiting to hear back at what cost it might entail.
- bluehost might be an option, but I would just need to buy a dedicated IP ($30/year) along with the package I choose.
So that’s where I’m at with that. It’s just one of those things that seems to be more of a pain to deal with than it should.
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