Re: PSA: Simple Wi-Fi gateway killswitch that works with OpenVPN config files

Maria Sophia wrote on 7/19/2026 9:29 PM:
> Paul wrote:
>>>> Sometimes I wish I knew what would happen before I mess with things
>>>
>>> Just sometimes?
>>>
>>> My luck isn't that good!
>>>
>>
>> This is why we have backups.
>>
>> I don't make a lot of backups, but I tend to make
>> safety backups before something blows up on me.
>>
>> A "safety backup" is something you delete three days later,
>> after it turns out nothing got destroyed by one of your
>> experiments.
>>
>> The tethered boot SSD is backed up right now, so I
>> can restore it later.
> 
> Paul & croy are right. I wish I had a backup. I've been offline for a day.
> For a decade or so, I haven't "bothered" to make backups. Now I wish I had.
> 
> I destroyed Windows so badly that Wi-Fi will never work again, unless I do
> something drastic where I already ran DISM & sfc scannow to no avail.
> 
> I'll bet I put Windows into such a state that NOBODY on this ng has ever
> seen, in that the entire Wi-Fi infrastructure is crashing when utilized.
> 
> I ended up plugging an old DD-WRT bridge-mode router into the RJ45 port,
> just to get the pc back on the net because even Windows settings crashes.
> 
> Can you believe that?
> 
> I press "Win+I" and then go to "Network & Internet" and in a second, it
> crashes, every single time. I have no Wi-Fi icon in the notification area.
> 
> In all my decades on Windows, I've never seen *that* error before.
> Have you?
> 

It sounds like you finally outsmarted yourself.