w 7 problem

[dick merrill]

After re-installing W7 and letting it do all the updates, it is now working normally. Lost a few files but most are on BU.

[Terry Carraway]

You can try what Mark suggested. If your current install doesn't have the driver, a wipe and re-install isn't likely to make it appear.

Keep in mind that Win7/64 was pretty unusual. I'm not sure as I ever saw one. Only with Win10 has 64-bit become the norm.

I still have Win7/64 on one computer. It is one chipset to early to be supported by Win10.

[Russell Holton]

Just tried to load w7 32 bit and it said my machine needs only 64 bit?

Sounds like it found the 32-bit driver, but since you OS is 64-bit, it can't use it.

You can try a wipe and reload, but I think you're going to have to do one of the following:
- Download a 64-bit driver for your wireless
- Install a different wireless adapter
- Wipe and install 32-bit.

It's possible Win10/64 might have a driver. Maybe.

[Bill Bridges]

When I tried to look for the wireless adapter it only showed a blank page. Just tried to load w7 32 bit and it said my machine needs only 64 bit? I'm going to do a wipe and install the win7 64 bit.

This machine I'm on was originally a Win 7/64 and updated to Win 10/64 with no issues. My wireless router is a Netgear R7000 and it came over to Win10/64 with no problems.

Have you gone out to your router manufacturer and downloaded a driver from them? Also since you are going to reload the Win7, why not go to Win10?

Grace and Peace,

[Scott Dyer DXR/CT]

You can try what Mark suggested. If your current install doesn't have the driver, a wipe and re-install isn't likely to make it appear.

Keep in mind that Win7/64 was pretty unusual. I'm not sure as I ever saw one. Only with Win10 has 64-bit become the norm.

I had Win7/64 on my desktop, when purchased in 2010 and continued until Win10 was installed a couple of years ago.

[dick merrill]

When I tried to look for the wireless adapter it only showed a blank page. Just tried to load w7 32 bit and it said my machine needs only 64 bit? I'm going to do a wipe and install the win7 64 bit.

[Russell Holton]

Thanks Russell, I think I had the 64 bit w7 before and everything worked. I'm now thinking of doing a wipe, and another w7 install?

You can try what Mark suggested. If your current install doesn't have the driver, a wipe and re-install isn't likely to make it appear.

Keep in mind that Win7/64 was pretty unusual. I'm not sure as I ever saw one. Only with Win10 has 64-bit become the norm.

[Mark Horak]

Thanks Russell, I think I had the 64 bit w7 before and everything worked. I'm now thinking of doing a wipe, and another w7 install?

Before going the brute force route, maybe you could go to the Device Manager and uninstall your wireless adapter (under Network Adapters) and then let Windows automatically re-install it. It can't hurt.

[dick merrill]

Thanks Russell, I think I had the 64 bit w7 before and everything worked. I'm now thinking of doing a wipe, and another w7 install?

[Russell Holton]

I have a w7 profession 64 bit and decided to reload w7.

The problem with 64-bit is that you MUST have 64-bit drivers for any hardware you're using. I suspect that Win7-64 lacks the drivers for your WiFi device. Check the manufacturer's site and see if they have any drivers for it.

[dick merrill]

I have a w7 profession 64 bit and decided to reload w7. After doing so I no longer have any wifi reception. the wifi worked in safe mode before the reload.. Don't find any real help online so hoping here will have a solution. After the reload I went to the networking page and followed some online advice that said change the adapter, however the page where that is supposed to be is blank. Should I just give up and go to w 10 (shudder) or buy a new unit? Looking for the cheapest route, i do have everything backed up. Tia
Dick

[Ray Tackett]

What about googletagservices and googletagmanager?

Never heard of 'em before, but they are now dead. Thanks.

[Ray Tackett]

Some of the sites I use require cookies to use them. I’ll look at your suggestions when I get back home.

Just to be clear, I'm not talking about killing cookies from the site you're browsing. They're important for context, such as remembering you're logged in from page to page on a given site. I'm talking about thire-party cookies. Those come from outside advertisers and trackers on the site you're browsing. I once had to whitelist a bank's bill payment service, which was provided by a third party, but that was all.

[Dave Siciliano]

Some of the sites I use require cookies to use them. I’ll look at your suggestions when I get back home.

[Cole Loftus]

Assuming you use Firefox or Chrome and not Internet Exploder, go into your settings and set third-party cookies to "never". That will kill a fair amount of tracking. A little heavier technically is to add some entries to your "hosts" file. On XP or W7, it's C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. In that file, you can effectively shut off domains by mapping them to your own machine. I kill off Google's doubleclick and a few others that way.

When your system tries to resolve a domain name to an IP address, it generally uses DNS, an outside service. What's in hosts is looked at before DNS is used, and if the domain is found, there is no DNS search. Your own machine is always referenceable as IP address 127.0.0.1.

Exanples from my own hosts file:

127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.net
127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 google-analytics.net
127.0.0.1 www.doubleclick.com
127.0.0.1 www.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.com
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 www.doubleclick.de
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.de
127.0.0.1 hotcleaner.com
127.0.0.1 www.hotcleaner.com
127.0.0.1 coinhive.com

If, for example, a site tries to use Google Analytics on your browsing, nothing happens, because your machine has nothing to provide.

What about googletagservices and googletagmanager?

I use hosts, also NoScript in Firefox. I miss some content, but don't allow a lot of things to run when I don't know what they are.