Hi all,
I'm trying to understand why my laptop is behaving a certain way and
what I can do to stop it.
I have a Windows 8.1 laptop. Mostly I use it at school. I hook it up to
the projector in my classrooms as I lecture, and I use it during my
office hours to read homework, etc. When I take it to school, I do not
have it connected to campus networks because that eats up the battery
faster.
I turn the laptop on at home one or two times a week, where it is
connected to wifi. I do this to sync Dropbox, run a virus scan, and give
the computer a chance to run any updates.
The problem is this. For the last couple of weeks, when I turn my
computer on at school (no wifi), the laptop tells me it needs to load
updates, and when I'm going to turn it off, it tells me it needs to
install updates. Another thing it does when I turn it on is prompt me to
back up the computer for free or to run a virus check (more often the
backup). When I go home and turn the laptop on (wifi available), I don't
get any update, backup, or virus scan prompts. I've tried turning the
laptop on and leaving it on for over an hour, then restarting, and
repeating a couple of times so the machine can do whatever it needs to
do, but nothing happens. Then the next time I go to school, I'm back to
updates and backups.
This doesn't happen every time I turn the laptop on at school, but it
happens often, maybe one out of every three or four times. I haven't
found a way to permanently stop the backup or virus scanning prompt, and
if the laptop thinks it's updating, it can take up to ten minutes to
start, which is a long time to stall and do other things when I'm in
class. the offline updates never seem to finish because, if I turn the
laptop on again, say, in the next class, the same process happens all
over, but again, when I turn it on at home, it doesn't say it needs to
update.
What might be going on here?
Thanks for any ideas.
Ciao
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