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• Help for trouble with peer networking and ransomware protection

  Posted on March 21, 2022 at 02:44 CDT by Fred Langa • Comment in the Forums

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  By Fred Langa

  In this week’s first reader-submitted question, a subscriber’s peer (serverless) network simply will not allow his three PCs to share files, despite there being no obvious flaws. Why won’t it work?

  In the second, a different subscriber wants to enable Windows’ excellent, built-in ransomware protection (via “Protected folders”) but is prevented from doing so by other elements of his setup. Here’s the fix!

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.12.0, 2022-03-21).

  LangaList Anti-malware, LangaList, Newsletters, Ransomware, Windows networking

• Win10 update breaks a USB modem?

  Posted on March 30, 2020 at 01:10 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

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  By Fred Langa

  Networking issues can be daunting, but with a little prep work and Win10’s built-in, one-click Network reset option, you can usually get things going again.

  Here’s what to do, step by step, to help ensure a successful repair of this and many similar networking problems.

  Plus: MS Office won’t let a user type the word “you”!

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.12.0 (2020-03-30).

  LangaList AskWoody Plus Newsletter, MS Office AutoCorrect, Network reset, Windows networking