Editor’s Pick

Before you reinstall anything, right click the app, go to Properties, then Compatibility and tick ‘Run this program as an administrator’ and set Compatibility mode to an older Windows version, then move the installer or app to a simple folder like C:Apps (no special characters) and run it from there. This single combo often bypasses silent security blocks and weird permission issues that standard fixes completely miss.

Instead of rebooting the router for the tenth time, sit next to it with your laptop, forget your Wi-Fi network on the laptop, reconnect fresh, then turn off the 5 GHz band only long enough to test a single speed check, and finally create a new Wi-Fi name just for your laptop devices so they stop hopping between the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ bands without asking you.