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[Rose]

MSE is okay, but doesn't necessarily catch everything.

[Thief^]

For which version of windows?

7 - Microsoft Security Essentials is pretty decent
8 - Windows Defender (built in) - it's MSE merged with the Windows Defender from 7

Edit: No antivirus can possibly catch everything. MSE consistently ranks highly on detection tests, and is free. In Windows 8 you also get SmartScreen, which checks against Microsoft's monstrously huge database and warns about anything too new to be known about. It requires internet access, but if you're downloading something that's not an issue anyway.

[i2amroy]

MSE is okay, but doesn't necessarily catch everything.

Literally about the best detection rates you can get, even on top-of-the-line software, is about 80% of the brand new dangerous stuff out there. Most antiviruses rank in the 30-60% ranges. As always, your best defenses are going to be:
1) Don't download and run sketchy things.
2) Don't run on an administrator account unless absolutely necessary.
3) Emulation/sandboxing, which are kinda an extension from 2, but there aren't really any good free sandboxing programs out there for windows right now.

[Kadzar]

So a weird thing happened. I went on a trip with my family this weekend, and I wanted to be able to use my laptop for a bit longer before the battery ran out, so I disabled the wireless network connection so that it wouldn't be wasting power trying to find networks out in the middle of nowhere. Ever since then, when turning it on, I've had to run troubleshooting to turn on wireless capability (I'm sure there's a way to do it without the troubleshooter, but I don't know about it) every time I boot up.

Other than that, it works just fine, it's just the fact that the wireless capability doesn't turn on automatically anymore.

I'm on an ASUS laptop running Windows 7 with a Ralink 802.11n wireless lan card, and can provide any other pertinent information if needed.

[Thief^]

Most laptops have a WiFi on/off button on the keyboard. You may also be able to do it from device manager, or if you bring up the "network and sharing centre" go to adapter settings (IIRC) on the left. How did you disable it?

If it's enabled when you shut down it should be enabled next time you start up.

[Kadzar]

From the Network and Sharing Center I went to Change Adapter Settings (I guess it's actually Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections), right-clicked on the Wireless Network Connection icon, and clicked the Disable option.

[Thief^]

You should be able to enable it in the same way.

[Kadzar]

I knew that. I have done so a couple of times since the problem started occurring. I'm not even sure if it has anything to do with the wireless capability turning off, only that the problem seemed to start right after I did that.

But thank you for pointing out the keyboard shortcut thing. That should be helpful in the future.

[Graknorke]

Does anyone know why a .ppt file saved from OpenOffice might not open in PowerPoint?

[Aklyon]

Did you try saving it in libreoffice? Openoffice is a bit old.

[Thief^]

Actually Apache took over OpenOffice, and have been making releases, so now both exist...

[Aklyon]

Interesting.

[oriramikad]

Actually Apache took over OpenOffice, and have been making releases, so now both exist...

But LibreOffice has most of the original devs for OpenOffice.org while Apache OpenOffice has newcomers who don't have the years of experience the LibreOffice devs do.

[Sinistar]

So, I have some internet troubles (again). Godawful slow speed, namely.

Let us however assume that in a shared bandwidth of 4 users, everyone is limiting their speed accordingly. Yet they all still get massive slow-downs. Let us further assume that internet provider is a relatively reliable and there are no known problems with connection. So, let's say I, while suffering said slow-down, disconnect one of the users and suddenly I receive a massive boost in speed, namely, maximum that I should have. And if I connect said user back, the slow-down re-appear.

So taking in account everything said above, here is my question: is there any possibility this might be a router problem? That somehow router is causing slow-downs due to some (hardware?) error?

[Thief^]

You can try rebooting the router, but generally speaking, if one user can max out the connection, then everyone in total should be the same. It's more likely that users overloading the connection.

Torrents complicate matters, a lot of cheap routers can only manage a few hundred simultaneous connection in their NAT table before they go to poo. With a torrent client, people need to limit the Max number of simultaneous connection as well as the bandwidth to play nice with other users.