Windows 10: Teacher with No/Intermittent Internet Access, Windows 10

I could really use help with this situation. I am teaching from home and unable to connect reliably to home WIFI for online teaching.

• HP Elitebook with Windows 10 Enterprise Volume License from school.
• All other devices work perfectly on network multiple laptops and phones.
• This laptop worked fine for two years until yesterday. Previously it would sometimes disconnect momentarily but then reconnect automatically seconds later annoying but no real problem. Last two days, it will connect, then lose connection repeatedly. Sometimes no connection for hours. Sometimes it will work for 1-2 minutes, sometimes 5-10 minutes, always cutting out eventually.
• Strange thing: if I make my phone into a WIFI hotspot and share my home connection, the laptop works perfectly. Same WIFI signal from same router. If computer is connected directly, it's unusable, but through my phone, no issues. Why?
• The ONLY change in the past few days is that my Windows activation expired I didn't know this was a thing, so I have a watermark that sometimes appears telling me to activate Windows. My understanding is that the computer should still work fine even if not activated. My school IT dept is closed and cannot help with any kind of activation for the foreseeable future. If I try to activate through Windows settings I get a "Cannot connect to your institution's network" error.

Things I have tried:

• Reboot
• Reset Router and Modem
• Uninstall and reinstall network adopter
• Reset network
• Use network diagnostics this sometimes fixes things for a few minutes
• Update windows / Remove Windows Updates
• flush DNS

Again, this is crucial as I am a teacher in NY relying on internet for distance learning with 5 classes.

Again, it is strange because I never had issues with this computer before yesterday, and nothing has changed other than Windows activation.

Again, I can't understand why the laptop will not keep a connection to the router, butWILL keep a connection if connected through my phone hotspot to the router.


Any help is greatly appreciated by me and my 92 students!

:)

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Upgrading to Windows 10 from windows 7 and losing internet connection

A couple of days ago I upgraded my desktop to windows 10 after getting one of those MS prompts. However now I cannot access the internet and suspect the drivers from the Gigabyte GA-MA790X-ud4 motherboard does not support the internet drivers required. Searching the manufacturers website has not given me any joy either. Can anyone offer any suggestions?

 

intermittent internet access since Windows 10

Hi,

I realize that you have intermittent internet access since moving to Windows 10. I will try to help you with this issue.

You may temporarily disable any 3rd party security software and check if this helps.

Disclaimer: If you have to temporarily disable the antivirus to install other software; you should enable the antivirus as soon as you're done. If you're connected to the Internet or a network while your antivirus software
is disabled, your computer is vulnerable to virus attacks.

Suggest you to boot the computer in a clean boot state and check if that helps. A clean boot state will help us to determine if any 3rd party service or application is causing this issue.

How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

Note: After you have finished troubleshooting, follow the steps under “How to reset the computer to start as usual after troubleshooting with clean boot” in the article to boot to normal startup.

Keep us informed to help you further.

Thank you.