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Windows 10 keeps forgetting ReadyNas
I have been trying to use an RN212D23-100NES with windows 10 (on an expensive windows 10 laptop) for many months and it has never worked properly. I completely gave up and stopped using it months ago...
Hi. Sorry. Been busy. Thanks for the feedback. The internet is a wired connection. Not Wifi. I'll be honest; I don't fancy turning off the firewall long enough for this problem to pop up. Sounds dangerous. Re: Windows shouldn't crash. True but it did until recently. Some time in the last month(ish), MS released some kind of update that stopped the crash and now leaves you growing a long white beard waiting for something to happen. I designate everything to be as hassle free, trusted, easy, one-click and minimal-password-stuff as possible consideriing it's only me that uses it. I don't need endless password and privilege hassle to access my own stuff. So, yes, the network is trusted, all the things I am trying to access are designated "trusted locations". I don't have a login so there is no question of me accidentally giving myself an account that hasn't got any privileges.
Quick update: I found someone reporting other network-ish problems with the firewall in AVG Internet Security (which is what I've got). They found that the cure was to add the IP address of the ReadyNas to the Network white-list in AVG. I did that and cross-fingers, the problem looks as though it might be solved - admittedly, I haven't had time to use the PC much in the 36 hours since I did it, so maybe it isn't yet. I will report back.
Phil99 wrote:
...They found that the cure was to add the IP address of the ReadyNas to the Network white-list in AVG. I did that and cross-fingers, the problem looks as though it might be solved....
Thx for following up.
Spoke too soon! It's still doing it but it just freezes up for ten seconds instead of 40 seconds. One thing I forgot to mention is that I also set the ReadyNas to have a fixed IP address (so that I could ad it to the white-list) and I suspect it's that it is responsible for the shorter amnesic episodes, not the adding it to the whitelist.
Well for me with Windows 10, it keeps forgetting the Password for the NAS and I have to enter it all over again when trying to access the files. I don't get it. I'm sure it's a windows 10 issue as it does have many isues. It can't remember that I want to use a specific app when I click on a link in IE, and I click on the box to Remember and it does nothing, over and over again. It's just yet another screwy thing with Windows 10. I'm starting to thing about ReInstalling Windows 10 onmy PC with a clean install and see if things are better, because I did a Windows 10 upgrade from Windows 7.
Luckly all my main running programs I need up and running are on the NAS. So it won't screw all that up. It would still be a ton of work, but at this point, I don't know what to do to get my system running correctly. It's just been one issue after another. I liked Windows 7 far better.
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