I’ve had problems with internet connections the last 10 days when I reboot my Win 7 Pro 64-bit machine, which has Simple DNSCrypt and so of course the dnscrypt-proxy service and process. (See the stupendous article https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/how-to-keep-your-isps-nose-out-of-your-browser-history-with-encrypted-dns/ .)
Upon the most recent reboot with no internet connection, I saw that I had the Event Viewer Error “The DNSCrypt client proxy service failed to start due to the following error: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.”
Upon starting the dnscrypt-proxy service manually, I was suddenly connected.
Suspecting my Avast Free AV, I “excluded” the entire dnscrypt-proxy folder. So far, so good - no internet connection problems on reboot. My Avast Free is version 18.6.2349 (build 18.6.3983.371).
So - Avast - can you please maybe decide to play nice with dnscrypt-proxy service? ???
Thanks.
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