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How to sign out of a student portal? - Jack - 04-08-2014 07:14 PM
At the beginning of the year, we connect to the wifi and a page comes up. We sign in with our student ID and password. It assigns each grade different wifi. When you connect it downloads a file to your computer, and there seems like to way to sign out. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to log out of this, so that I can get different wifi. Please help.
- Ephemerist - 04-08-2014 07:20 PM
The first most obvious answer is to ask the wifi admin/tech. Whoever is in charge of 'make it so' is also in charge of 'make it not.'
You didn't mention what OS /platform you're working with, so I'll assume a Win laptop.
If you think it installed areal communications -application-, use Windows Explorer to browse down to [drive]\Windows\System 32 and look for it. If you find a subdirectory for an application that looks likely, then go into that. You *may* find an 'uninst.exe' type program. If yes then run that. It -may- do a good job and completely uninstall itself, or it may do a yucky job of it which you will find out about later when you still connect to the same wifi. Or you may not find any uninstall program at all.
If there is no uninstall program then use Start - Control Panel - Programs and Features, and again look for the software that you think is responsible. When you select it with the mouse you should get an 'Uninstall' link near the top of the window.
(The reason I mention looking for a specific uninstall program -first- is that they -usually- do a better job at removing themselves rather than letting Win figure out how it might or should remove it)
The next step is to delete browser stuff. Look in History and Cookies for items related to the school site, and delete those. You -can- simply clear all cache, cookies, and history, but that's very intrusive and will mess up whatever cookies and history in there that you might want to not squash.
All this -might- (should) work. No guarantees. The last gasp is that it's not impossible that there are Registry items that need to be edited or deleted, but I'm not going to risk advising how to do that because you -can- seriously mess up a PC if you do something wrong. Me, I don't hesitate to do it myself but I have 30 years experience.
As always, the site tech/manager is the best source of information.