Before digging down into s/w

[robintes]

I wanted to thank one of your senior members for his very wise/oldschool words. I had a lot of bad stuff with my Asus router 68u not send out properly from my pc. I had recently had to reset my router cos I was trying to set up a mesh wifi - thats another story. With all my messing about I started having probs - If it aint broke dont fix it KWIM
days wasted - then came here - hours wates trying to register new name - eventually got thru to admin here - reported on here.

Sadly - although I had a name registered I was not manually approved yet - board problem. But while I could browse some useful topics, the board didnt remember where I had been, nor did I. So Ive lost the place to say thanks to the member for his advice

Silly but simple - turned out my problem was the old ethern cable between modem and router - short 1m but it looked like a cheapo kit with a twisted rj45 plug one end. So I put in a new one 2m long cat 6 - and most problems went away.
As the member said - when your network plays up - start with basics. unplug all cables power cycle modem (unplug router) - the plug in router and power up, the log in pc. plug in devices (hope I have the right order pls advise).

Now I have to get my W11 into stable order as a recent upgrade to 24H2 has left me uncomfortable - pc is slower startup from sleep and browser Opera freezes up - didnt do that before. So that what meddling has done for me.

So to the member I cant find - but sure you will know who you are as your were VIP? Thanx 10^6

 

[Tech9]

All your previous posts are in this thread:

that was hard work

trying to register on this board took up ca 1 hour. Your system sent me to my email to confirm which then sent me back to your board said "oop we cant confirm your email" I retried for 6 times over an hour and eventually your system woke up and confirmed my email (I dont have problems with this...

www.snbforums.com

 

[ddaenen1]

Now I have to get my W11 into stable order as a recent upgrade to 24H2 has left me uncomfortable - pc is slower startup from sleep and browser Opera freezes up - didnt do that before. So that what meddling has done for me.

Just a small word of advice: don't use Opera as a browser. My Godson recently contacted me as the PC i bought for him was hacked and his game accounts blocked by some Russian a-hole. Eventually, i figured out that Opera was among the responsible of all the crap he had on there with tons of spyware and stuff. Stick to what works well, Chrome, Firefox or even Edge if you can't help yourself.

 

[robintes]

Thats very alarming as I had started using Opera cos FF was extremely slow in starting up (I shutdown my workspace every night cos W11 insists on doing things in the bg when it detects inactivity. I have had incidents when the m/c had restarted and hung as it needed permissions.
If I had say a dozen tabs open and then shutdown, next morning it might take 15mins to reload all the previous pages. I wonder if it has improved?

Can you or anyone else give more instances of Opera vulnerability (I thought it was based of FF engine anyway?

 

[Tech9]

next morning it might take 15mins to reload all the previous pages

Something is wrong with this computer. My wife has like 50+ tabs open most of the time and on reboot (the computer is 24/7 on, only on updates) they all reload pretty quickly. Her computer is not the latest and greatest hardware. She was using Firefox before, Chrome lately. This slow reload may happen if the Internet connection to this computer is slow or it has old mechanical drive, the latter highly unlikely for Windows 11 compatible hardware. Opera is quite unpopular with around 2% market share in Jan 2025.

 

[robintes]

Just a small word of advice: don't use Opera as a browser. My Godson recently contacted me as the PC i bought for him was hacked and his game accounts blocked by some Russian a-hole. Eventually, i figured out that Opera was among the responsible of all the crap he had on there with tons of spyware and stuff. Stick to what works well, Chrome, Firefox or even Edge if you can't help yourself.

Yes I found there was a panic about a particular obscure vulnerability which Opera fixed within a week of it being reported by a specialist security company. https://www.techradar.com/pro/secur...ave-allowed-hackers-to-run-any-file-they-want

so they took it very seriously
I immediately upgraded my Opera so pls advise if any more are found

 

[ddaenen1]

Something is wrong with this computer. My wife has like 50+ tabs open most of the time and on reboot (the computer is 24/7 on, only on updates) they all reload pretty quickly. Her computer is not the latest and greatest hardware. She was using Firefox before, Chrome lately. This slow reload may happen if the Internet connection to this computer is slow or it has old mechanical drive, the latter highly unlikely for Windows 11 compatible hardware. Opera is quite unpopular with around 2% market share in Jan 2025.

I have a quite dated workstation (ASUS P10S-WS with an Intel i7 7700K and 32Gb RAM) which runs W11 flawless. I use Firefox and it is superfast. Everything else too so i can only agree something is wrong with either his hardware or the W11 installation..