After my mac is left standing over 20 to 30 minutes it drops my secured wifi and locks on to some neighbor's unsecured wifi

after my mac is left standing over 20 to 30 minutes it drops my secured wifi and locks on to some neighbor's unsecured wifi

Go to system preferences, then network, select wifi tab on the right, click the lock icon on the bottom left and type an administrator's password, then click on advanced. When in the advanced menu, select the tab: WiFi. Locate your neighbor's wifi and select it, and press the minus button and click ok. This should stop your computer remebering your neighbor's wifi.

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Can you please let me know what is the model of your notebook? Also you can go through the following document to check if this helps to resolve your issue:
Resolving Problems When Toggling Between Display Modes Using FN+F4
Although I am an HP Employee, I am speaking for myself and not for HP.
Make it easier for other people to find solutions, by marking my answer “Accept as Solution” if it solves your problem.

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graham218 wrote:
are moving over to a single mac mini, can we install both libraries on to the mac mini and run them as separate libraries?
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Lupunus
PS ... If you both use only the Mini you have to setup a user account for each and just copy the whole library to the Music folder in particular.
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Safari 4.1.3 for Tiger can be downloaded here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1069
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It is worth noting that it is an extreme rarity for updates to cause upsets to your system, as they have all been extensively beta-tested, but they may well reveal pre-existing ones, particularly those of which you may have been unaware. If you are actually aware of any glitches, make sure they are fixed before proceeding further.
So before you do anything else:
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Turn off sleep mode for both screen and hard disk.
Disconnect all peripherals except your keyboard and mouse.
1. Repair Permissions (in Disk Utility)
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At least you can now be reasonably certain that your system does not contain any obvious faults that might cause an update/upgrade to fail.
3. Download the correct version of the COMBO update from the Apple download site. If your car runs on gasoline you would not want to fill the tank with diesel, so don’t try to install the PPC updater on an Intel Mac!
The 10.4.11 Combo Updater for PPC Macs is here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL170
And for Intel Macs here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL172
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More information on using Software Updater here:
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7. When it ask for a restart to complete the installation, click restart. This can take longer than normal, there are probably thousands of files to overwrite and place in the correct location. Do nothing while this is going on.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106692
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Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
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