I'm away from home at the moment, and having some problems with a laptop. It's an HP Pavilion "Model 818", purchased from Best Buy in December. At the end of February, HP's "Support Assistant" program notified me to download and install half a dozen updates. I did -- and wireless hasn't worked since. The desktop shortcut I set up to allow easy enabling/disabling of Wifi now just tells me "Wi-Fi could not be found." I had a chance to hook it to a wired network and do a fresh download and install of the drivers for the Wifi adapter, but that hasn't made any difference. The machine has a 1 TB hard drive, which I've partitioned intending to dual-boot to Ubuntu Linux. All that's stopping me is that I can't get it to boot from the install CD. I believe I set all the BIOS options to enable booting from the CD drive, but it doesn't, and now pressing F2 while booting takes me to a set of hardware diagnostics (I believe one o those HP updates installed them), all of which pass, but that means I don't even get to the BIOS settings to check that I enabled them. In theory, Best Buy's Geek Squad should help me, but I'm in Canada for a bit and I don't know if they even have stores anywhere near me... Anyone got a constructive suggestion on either issue? T laptop came with 64-bit Windows 10 home, so fr now that's the OS I've got access to... David Gillett CISSP CCNP PCSOFT's List Owners: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Mark Rode<[log in to unmask]>