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So I decided to try my hand at a little online gaming, and I'm trying to sign up for World of Tanks.
They have the most elephanted-up registration workflow ever.
First, I never received the account activation email.
Second, when I try to open a support ticket saying that I can't log in because I was never able to activate the account, it wants to know the email address associated with the account. So I enter the email address that I used to sign up with, and it tells me, "There is no account associated with this email address." 
Has anyone else here played this game, and/or found out how to successfully register an account?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Apparently you can't even pass level 1. 
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Yeah, really! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Apparently you can't even pass reach level 1.
FTFY
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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So what happens when you try to sign up again using your original email?
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Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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-- Sarah Hoyt
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When I tried that, it told me that the email address already had an account.
Thanks for your response. It's fixed now, I was able to get them to activate the account for me.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Has anyone else here played this game, and/or found out how to successfully register an account?
Register my own? Why?
OriginalGriff@gmail.com, password "Thanks".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Restarted my Dell laptop and I think a Windows update was installed that completely bricked my ethernet adapters.
Did a network reset, tried stuff, deleted them, re-added them, still nothing.
Got wired internet and I'm connected, but still no browsing or connecting to Wi-Fi!
Found out Firefox apparently uses its own settings and was the only browser that worked.
The stupid part is that a coworker had the exact same thing happening to her Dell laptop this morning.
We were the only ones with Dells and the only ones affected.
Spent two hours trying to get everything to work again, but without success.
Just got home and everything works like nothing happened...
I must've done something right this afternoon even though it didn't work at the time 
My coworker's still doesn't work though (she used her backup laptop today).
What the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) is this ?
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I don't even think the driver was updated, but I'm not sure what was...
Anyway, it works again so I'm not going to tinker with it 
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I feel ya!
Windows 10 is such a complete pile of crap!
Whenever I can, I disable updates for 35 days.
Most of the time, I manage to avoid updates altogether - but probably every 4 months or so, I do a bit of cursing, and then continue on with disabled updates
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First time I've had an issue after an update, but I've read about all the problems everyone's having.
Windows 10 is my favorite after Windows 7 (at the time).
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John Torjo wrote: Whenever I can, I disable updates for 35 days.
Lucky you...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I don't know if you fixed it already or not, but they messed with the windows hosts file.
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I thought I fixed it, but it just seems it works everywhere except at the office 
What changed in the hosts file?
I've got six mapped IP addresses, five for Docker (they put it there, not me) and one for a server mapping for a client.
Other than that it's all comments.
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I was thinking of this [^]. Now thinking it might be unrelated.
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Microsoft: "What would you have done today?"
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Dell apparently has a staff aggressively writing their own drivers faster than Microsoft can support them. And they screw up.
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Sounds like a DNS problem. Firefox is the only browser that uses DNS over HTTPS so if you were having issues with the DNS server in your Wired Connection properties, Firefox would still work since it communicates with Cloudflare DNS over HTTPS instead. This would also explain why switching networks fixed the issue.
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Yes! This is exactly the problem!
Do you know how to fix this issue?
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Tried them all, for a brief moment it seemed to work, but then Wi-Fi became disconnected again (also non-reproducible) 
Resetting the modem also helped, but also only for like half an hour.
It seems something is messing up my Wi-Fi settings periodically.
I'm not on wired internet, which works.
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Ok WiFi is trickier to figure out for sure.
Are other devices able to connect to the access point while your laptop will not connect? If not the router may be overheating, which would be why unplugging and replugging in the router fixes the issue. You can figure out a way to cool it such as a fan or something, or just replace it. Some older Linksys routers made in the early 2010s would overheat when they were brand new.
I assume you have downloaded and reinstalled the latest driver for your WiFi card from the Dell website as well?
Are you using Bluetooth on the laptop, if so try disabling the Bluetooth on the laptop. Dell has had alot of issues with their WiFi/Bluetooth cards in the past. I have personally had the Bluetooth issue on one of the Dell PCs at work.
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Chaoix wrote: If not the router may be overheating
I'm the only one without Wi-Fi at the office.
Another coworker had the same issue, also a Dell, but she doesn't have Wi-Fi at home either whereas I have Wi-Fi everywhere except at the office.
Overheating was actually a problem that made the Wi-Fi disconnect, which made the alarm go off at 1AM, four nights in a row (we had a heat wave last week), so the building owner turned on the AC and it's been on day and night since then 
So we can rule out overheating.
Chaoix wrote: I assume you have downloaded and reinstalled the latest driver for your WiFi card from the Dell website as well?
You may be on to something there 
I used to have this Dell tool that kept bugging me about updates and such (and so I was always up-to-date), but it seems I never reinstalled it after I formatted my computer last year.
Got it again after reading your reply and there were updates for te BIOS, chipset, network and Bluetooth devices.
Hopefully this will solve the issue!
I'll let you know if it solved the issue on Monday.
Thanks for the help 
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