Keef
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I recently bought a new laptop for school, an HP DM1. For the last week I've taken it to school and browsed the internet there - once connected, both wireless networks would show a login screen once the browser was opened, before I could use the internet.
Last weekend I had the computer freshened up by a friend of mine whom I've had set up 3 other computers for me. He takes off all the trial offers like Norton and crapware and installs maintenance programs like Ccleaner, or things like Photoshop and Microsoft Office. I prefer to use Avast, which I have set up and working. He makes a business out of it, and I've got two desktops from him that have been running flawlessly for two years, along with a burnt-out old laptop that he brought back from near death.
But today I took the laptop to school, all set up and ready to go, and after it connected to either of my school's wireless network I would not show the login screen. I tried Firefox, Explorer, and Chrome and none of them would work, yet my secured home network connects automatically just like I told it to.
Any idea what is keeping that screen from showing up? Something he did might be causing the problem and I plan to contact him tomorrow, but since it's so late I figured I would post it here for some opinions. I'm having trouble finding articles about this exact problem - the only thing I found was this Windows 7 thread, but there is no answer there.
EDIT: I talked to my buddy about this issue and he said he didn't touch any internet settings but he'll take a look at it. Since he installed the Windows 7 SP1 update that may have caused a problem.
Last weekend I had the computer freshened up by a friend of mine whom I've had set up 3 other computers for me. He takes off all the trial offers like Norton and crapware and installs maintenance programs like Ccleaner, or things like Photoshop and Microsoft Office. I prefer to use Avast, which I have set up and working. He makes a business out of it, and I've got two desktops from him that have been running flawlessly for two years, along with a burnt-out old laptop that he brought back from near death.
But today I took the laptop to school, all set up and ready to go, and after it connected to either of my school's wireless network I would not show the login screen. I tried Firefox, Explorer, and Chrome and none of them would work, yet my secured home network connects automatically just like I told it to.
Any idea what is keeping that screen from showing up? Something he did might be causing the problem and I plan to contact him tomorrow, but since it's so late I figured I would post it here for some opinions. I'm having trouble finding articles about this exact problem - the only thing I found was this Windows 7 thread, but there is no answer there.
EDIT: I talked to my buddy about this issue and he said he didn't touch any internet settings but he'll take a look at it. Since he installed the Windows 7 SP1 update that may have caused a problem.
