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Firefox updater stuck in a loop

From time to time, Firefox might try to update itself and get itself stuck an a loop where every time you try and open it, it tries to upgrade itself, fails, closes and then you have to try and open it again and the same thing happens.

95% of the time, this problem is caused by Logitech webcam software.

I don’t know why, I don’t know how, but the problem has hit my system several times and every time after some googling, the suggestion to try and close my Logitech camera software comes up and as soon as I do, Firefox is able to upgrade itself and open fine.

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Find your IP address in Windows

To find out your ip address:

Select start and click run.

Type “command” and click ok.

Once the command promt appears, type ipconfig and press return. This will then bring up a list of different ip address’s. You will usually be looking for the port you connect to the internet through.

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Removing fonts to boot Windows quicker

When you first boot Windows up, all the fonts must be loaded. If you delete or move unwanted fonts, Windows will load up quicker.

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Prevent applications launching automatically on Windows boot up

If you don’t want all your programmes to automatically boot up when Windows starts, hold control key down to skip loading them.

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Stop Windows automatically launching applications on boot

Sometimes you will have applications running when Windows starts up and some which you may not even be aware of. If you can’t find the application in Start > Programs > Start Up or you just want to see what exactly is running then try your MS Config box.

Goto Start > Run
Type ‘msconfig’ into the box
Hit the ok button
Wait for the box to load
Click the start up tab

This displays a list of all the applications that run of start up. Many are Windows applications which should generally be left alone. You can disable them from starting up by unticking the box next to it.

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