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I made sure that the wifi does not sleep when idle (is that a good idea or will it ruin my laptop?) This is a screenshot of the drivers installed for my Dell Wireless 1705 802.11 b/g/n (2.4 Ghz)

Have used my brother's laptop in the room. It works fine. Infact my HP laptop used to work fine here but then it was Windows 7.

My iPad, phones, my android tablet all work fine.

Using a D-Link 615. It's around 10 yards away from me. I am able to use all my other devices easily without any problems. Ever since I upgraded to Win 8.1 it's been giving me issues.

I don't understand why Windows 8.1 is giving me so many issues. My laptop is unable to stay connected to the wifi for long and sometimes I am unable to connect. My phone and tablet stay connected to the wifi while my laptop can't. I tried all the remedies for it and yet it has issues. Is it...

Never mind. Got it to work after I disabled the graphic card and added a beta driver.

I upgraded via the windows store. I got the message that Windows is being prepared and now there is nothing. I have a dell inspiron 3537 i5 4200 6 gb ram and 750 gb hard drive. I even got to log on with my Hotmail password. .

II fail to understand why windows 8.1 is taking forever to install. I removed my third party anti virus and the installation process went by smoothly. I got to the one drive screen and logged on to Windows but so far the screen is blank though I can move the mouse around. Should I reboot or wait?

I re-read what you said and it makes sense. Was a bit confused coz I assumed that these were the steps to take for a Windows 8.1 installation. Will do that right now. Cheers

I need to install the updates before I can install Windows 8.1. Would I still need to uninstall McAfee to install the updates? It came bundled with the laptop and it has a license till mid 2015.

I have tried my best to update Windows 8 so I can install Win 8.1 but somehow it's not happening for me. The first time I tried to install the updates, Windows Update stopped working. Had to reset everything and install it again. Unfortunately it reverted all changes after 2 hours of...