I find many laptop owners to not know about maintenance.
Bob
Hi!
I have an ASUS laptop model x55v, running on windows 8 with latest drivers and windows updates. I have been having problems regularly to open a browser page (IE, Firefox or Chrome, same output). When i start the system, it always connects normally, and browses smooth, but after like 1,2 hours, i stop being able to surf the web, as the pages dont load no more. I ping websites like google.com and it returns positive, same as LAN hosts. Even torrent clients are able to dl/ul data. Just the browsers dont work.
when i troubleshoot network connection, sometimes it says that the Diagnostic policy service is not running, witch sometimes is, sometimes not. Other times i get a "couldnt identify the problem message". I tried everything like messing with hosts file, flushing the dns, changing from wireless to ethernet connection, but it only works again when i restart the system.
Anyone has a clue on this? Thanks in advance!

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