A mobile wifi device can be useful, but it can easily become expensive Being able to connect a computer to the internet via the “personal hotspot” feature of a mobile phone is very useful to me when helping my IT Support clients. Sometimes, though, and for reasons I can’t explain, it’s not possible to connect …
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Metered Wifi Connections in Windows
Easy to get caught out – but easy to fix On Monday, I was working on a client’s computer when my phone pinged. It was EE (my mobile provider) warning me that I’d run out of data allowance for the month. I thought it was odd, but I’d got my Microsoft Surface laptop connected to …
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Windows 10 Updates
With Windows 10 we can no longer choose if we want Windows updates, let alone which ones we want The option in the Windows control panel that used to allow us to choose how to receive Windows updates isn’t present in Windows 10. And that’s because we don’t really have a choice any more. Updates …
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