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I had WPD installed when I went from 2004 to 20H2.
I currently am unable to have my android phone complete an update – wifi is connected but can’t find server. normal internet seems to work fine with mobile data shut off (that is, using wifi). I suspect WPD. How do I get rid of it. I have tried to shut everything off but no change.
Try first to reset all changes by using the ‘default button’ at the bottom.
@krism, Try this:
Assuming you are using the Windows Firewall..
Go to the Advanced Settings section of the W10 O/S firewall
Export your existing firewall settings somewhere named eg: xxxx.wfw
Then within the Firewall Advanced Settings reset the firewall (RHS panel)
Try updating the mobile again.
Should this work, and your mobile device is updated, you can then import
your original xxxx.wfw back to what it was from within the advanced firewall, it’s your call.
Hope this works out..(I don’t use WPD on W10)
It also might be wise to check to see if there is a WPD update to the utility if you wish to continue using it.
If unsuccessful, see post by alex5723
thanks all. in the meantime I found that I had installed wpd on Oct 23 and done a Macrium image on Oct 15, So I went offline and restored the Oct 15 3 little partitions at the front and the win10 partition, transmorgrified firefox by replacing (user)/apps/roaming/mozilla. and then re did 20H2. In fact I kinda did that twice because I screwed up and thought it still couldn’t see my HP laserjet but I was clicking the wrong button on the extension.
Takeaways: from talking on wpd’s support thread, yes, removing it is hideous, probably impossible – I have put notes to that effect on that app folder on my apps partition so I will never install it again.
Since I was now able to easily update my phone via wifi on 20H2, so it may well have been wpd that was blocking it. else that google site was temporarily down yesterday.
Again, thanks all. I am once again with a relatively clean system (no wpd ever on it). Other than the stuttering with printers and scanners surviving through the update to 20H2, I, on the last attempt, just uninstalled both before doing the update and then added then in easily after. The update itself only takes about a half an hour.
I will say this for 20H2 : in the past I was on 10 for a while and then left it because I didn’t like having to do essentially a complete system install every 6 months. This (20H2) was very much closer to a simple update. Note, I told it NOT to do auto-updates as I use wuMgr, so after it was done, the only thing in there for me to update was an October cumulative for 20H2. There were of course the 2 November previews which I just hide and ignore. I always wait until just before update Tuesday to do the previous ones. wuMgr is a definite keeper for me.
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