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Tony1Pass1
Freshman
8 years ago

I connect to my D-Link wifi now but can't connect directly modem via cable

Hi, I have a Lenovo Windows 10 pretty new laptop. I recently had Tech support to get the laptop to connect to the D-Link wireless router. We succeeded in that but if I want to take off the router and...
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    Tony1Pass1
    8 years ago

    Dear friends,

    I wish to thank you for your help. I typed up a response yesterday but do not see it in this thread now.
    Anyway, yesterday I clicked on the little up arrow on the right side of my task bar to open up the little box to show my internet connection. It only showed Wi-fi. But there is a line Troubleshoot or Network settings. Can't remember which one it was but I clicked on one and Windows 10 went to a larger box asking me if I wanted to fix a connection problem or add another way to get on the internet (sorry, can't remember the words). So I let it set me up. The first question was "do you want to connect by Wi-fi?" or something like that? and I said to dismiss that and go on. Then it set me up to connect through my modem. Cool! Now I can connect to either Wi-fi or just directly connected to the modem.
    In the future, if I have a similar problem I'll go directly to my Device Manager and enable the connection that way.
    Thanks to all of you who took your valuable time to help me. I really do appreciate it!

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Matt_Is_My_Name
Sophomore

I don't fully intend to highjack this thread, but I will do so willingly since the solution to the problem has been given with 98% probability.

 

 In that thread they discussed changing URLs being a trigger for auto-deletion. That must have been the case, since the edit was fixing an error in that ncpa.cpl filename I typed out. I guess we all have to be really careful when typing out full filenames from now on!

Tony1Pass1's avatar
Tony1Pass1
Freshman
8 years ago

Dear friends,

I wish to thank you for your help. I typed up a response yesterday but do not see it in this thread now.
Anyway, yesterday I clicked on the little up arrow on the right side of my task bar to open up the little box to show my internet connection. It only showed Wi-fi. But there is a line Troubleshoot or Network settings. Can't remember which one it was but I clicked on one and Windows 10 went to a larger box asking me if I wanted to fix a connection problem or add another way to get on the internet (sorry, can't remember the words). So I let it set me up. The first question was "do you want to connect by Wi-fi?" or something like that? and I said to dismiss that and go on. Then it set me up to connect through my modem. Cool! Now I can connect to either Wi-fi or just directly connected to the modem.
In the future, if I have a similar problem I'll go directly to my Device Manager and enable the connection that way.
Thanks to all of you who took your valuable time to help me. I really do appreciate it!