Late yesterday I determined that the internet problems I was having with
Laptop #1 were entirely due to that Outpost Firewall I had installed over the
weekend. I uninstalled it yesterday evening and went right back to dialup
internet browsing, as I had done prior to installing it.
This morning I came to the coffee shop and uninstalled that firewall from
Laptop #2, and then I had no wireless connectivity. It has taken me most of
the day to get it restored. I saw on the HD that there was still a folder for
it, and there were still keys in the registry. So, I reinstalled it and then
again uninstalled it. That took care of the HD folder, but the registry
entries were still there. So, I removed them manually.
In the meantime, I dragged out a pair of USB wifi adapters, and the one
I'm using has IEEE 802.11N, and I'm connected at a sizzling rate of 72M. Wow!
And I found the HD with the experimental Linux Mint OS.
Now I need to go back to Laptop #1 and edit the registry. My guess is
that the firewall installed a proprietary DLL and a registry key for it, but
the key remained after the software was removed and there was nothing to
connect to.
So, avoid the Outpost Firewall.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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