Took the opportunity today while feeling a bit off-colour and staying home in the warm and dry to action the W10 update. Took several hours to run to completion but the job is now done. Firefox running fine and get-iplayer stll working so that is good enough for me.

While all is running fine I have one curiosity which is puzzling me: When I first updated W10 reported that my wi-fi connection was using an old. insecure protocol. Fair enough, I logged into my BT Home Hub and changed the setting from WPA2 and WEP (Automatic) to WPA2 only. However, every time I log into my laptop I am still seeing the message about having an insecure wi-fi connection. What am I missing?

Note, this is an old HH2 from when I first got BT Broadband. I have a newer HH from when I upgraded my BT TV/Sport package a year or so ago but never bothered swapping it in on the basis that if it ain't broke then don't fix it.

First thing I would say is that I would bite the bullet and install the newer HH. I've found that the newer HHs are much better than the older ones, particularly when it comes to wireless networking, and I suspect the OS on them has more security fixes.

Also, if you haven't already done so, I would recommend completely deleting the wireless connection from the laptop and setting it up again from scratch, cold booting the laptop in the process. It may be that it is still trying to use the old settings. Also you have, I assume, power-cycled the HH.

Edit: One further thought - is the WiFi password a nice, secure one?

Edit2: Last thought. Is it possible that the HH2 only supports TKIP encryption for WPA2 rather than the more secure AES? Using the newer hub should fix that possibility.

Edited by TinyMongomery (Tue 27-Dec-22 11:50:00)

Thanks for those ideas. I will work my through them. Currently recording something from the Sounds Dungeon through a "hidden" escape route so need to wait an hour for that to finish first.

First thing I tried was a manual reboot and that seems to have done the trick. That suggest the various other reboots prompted by firewall and AV software updates etc are not full reboots and skip some steps to run in a shorter time.

I will bear the other tips in mind for the future.

Message came back today so this time I told W10 to Forget the connection and then made it anew and rebooted. So far so good.

Here is a funny thing. When I upgraded to W10 I was still able to unlock the screen with a double tap of the touch pad. The last few days however now find I have to CRL+ALT+DEL to get to the login screen and a bit of online searching suggests this is the way it is meant to be and I can live with that, There is a fiddle to change it back but I won't be bothering. Thinking back I think the change coincided with this month's Tuesday update but the thing is, why did not the original upgrade make that happen?

If you mean buying it, the windows 8 key will probably work, so just download the ISO, best to clean install it rather than attempt an in place upgrade from 8.1.

No need to buy it. Upgrade worked just fine. Been using if for several weeks now.

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No need to buy it. Upgrade worked just fine. Been using if for several weeks now.

Windows 8 is better than 10, get a decent third party start menu on it, and it just feels better and runs smoother. I would have kept to it when I updated to the Ryzen, but MS decided to post notices all the time saying that I should use Windows 10. Now, there are problems with some software not running on it.