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kalos:
I have been extremely satisfied by DC forum, but I thought general PC troubleshooting wouldn't fit with its thematology

I asked this question, because yesterday I had a problem with "Wi-Fi" doesn't have a valid IP configuration".
And we all know how extremely frustrating is not to be able to connect to the internet.
I searched google, and the web is full of posts for solution to this problem.
There are numerous replies, even numerous youtube videos, how to "solve" it, but the majority is total bullshit!
Numerous requests to post whole sheets of logs, run cmd commands, do this, do that, etc! all bullshit!

And after searching alot, I came across this brilliant post...
http://windowsforum.com/threads/wifi-doesnt-have-a-valid-ip-configuration.111633/#post-318561
A brilliant post saying that you just need to reboot your router! And all done!
And this person wasn't even thanked for this post!

MilesAhead:
Many of the regular posters on the Windows forums I listed are IT/Support professionals current or former. Many of the retired ones just enjoy working the problems and try to help.

I've been on them for several years.  They don't solve every problem.  But just the Tutorials section alone has a wealth of info.

In fact when I first got a Vista PC pre service pack I found the Vista forum to help me tweak it. I've been posting there ever since. The same group who runs the Vista forum runs the others.  There's already a Windows Nine waiting for the OS pre-releases.

I'll also look through HowtoGeek on occasion.  Some good nuggets there. Used to be you could find fixes to the really quirky issues on the annoyances forums.  I don't know if they are still active though.

Renegade:
I'll add this:

http://stackoverflow.com/

There are a quite a few sub-sites in there though. Check the upper left dropdown menu.

In the same "family" of sites:

http://superuser.com/

http://unix.stackexchange.com/

http://askubuntu.com/

And many, many more. It's not limited to technical topics though:

http://christianity.stackexchange.com/

http://philosophy.stackexchange.com/

http://sports.stackexchange.com/

Stack Exchange has some really, really good answers in there. Esoteric topics/issues/problems that very few people ever encounter are plentiful.

It's pulled my ass out of the fire more than just a few times.

Stoic Joker:
"A problem well stated is a problem half-solved"

I don't use any specific forums other than EventID.net. Everything else is generally an attempt to separate nomenclature from lingo in an attempt to synthesizing a correct way of phrasing the issue. Once that is done, much of the idiot suggestions (e.g. noise) disappear allowing a solution to be found with a Bing or Google search.

It truly is amazing how you can search on a problem for days with no results, and then after rephrasing the question a bit...find hundreds of references to the correct answer.

MilesAhead:
It truly is amazing how you can search on a problem for days with no results, and then after rephrasing the question a bit...find hundreds of references to the correct answer.
-Stoic Joker (July 10, 2014, 05:06 PM)
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So true.  Often I find the thorniest problems involve a term nearly impossible to search on without a deluge of irrelevant hits.  For example a problem that involves searching itself.  Also it would be cool if some AI algorithm could exclude stuff like doors, picture windows, and storm windows when searching on "Windows" issues.  :)

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