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Should she anticipate a connection issue?
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Last week, my daughter bought a laptop with wifi. in anticipation of using it when in the Falklands. Here at home, she connected via an ethernet cable to my router.
When she was back at her base (in the UK) she thought she would see if she could connect via wifi if someone had an unsecured machine. It seems on start up a box popped up that she didn't have time to read properly, but it said something like "Windows has encountered a problem on start up etc.. " and then it was gone.
I recommended that she did nothing until she is in her room at the Falklands where she has a cable connection.
I am of the opinion (rightly or wrongly) that the laptop was recognising being introduced to a new way of connection and it was figuring out how to do it. OR, because there wasn't an unsecured wifi connection available , that prompted the box.
Someone might like to forward a theory so that before her flight takes off, i can reassure her.
When she was back at her base (in the UK) she thought she would see if she could connect via wifi if someone had an unsecured machine. It seems on start up a box popped up that she didn't have time to read properly, but it said something like "Windows has encountered a problem on start up etc.. " and then it was gone.
I recommended that she did nothing until she is in her room at the Falklands where she has a cable connection.
I am of the opinion (rightly or wrongly) that the laptop was recognising being introduced to a new way of connection and it was figuring out how to do it. OR, because there wasn't an unsecured wifi connection available , that prompted the box.
Someone might like to forward a theory so that before her flight takes off, i can reassure her.
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Sounds more like a windows crash error message if it's saying it encountered a problem on start up. Probably a driver issue more than anything or just a windows glitch lol If it happens again then worry about it a little as it may need drivers updating etc but if it doesn't then it's just a one off.0
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