Recent content by Johnain

Hi W3000x2VHP Thanks for that. Sorry to be so long in replying ... I have been on holiday beyond InternetLand ... scary; The problem appears to have gone away. More worrying than if I had solved it. I get a solid response when I ping Localhost But thanks anyway

Hi folks It is probably obvious, but if ly sysntax rearlier does not work, then try Then type ... Net user administrateur /active:yes Net user administrator /active:yes ... instead. It did for me on my next PC upgrade to Windows (ultimate)

When I am away from home I often have no access to the Internet. But it never used to matter because my laptop was XP and I used localhost/hosts/127.0.01 and virtual hosts in Apache to work on the train whilst travelling etc with my website development stuff. Until I installed Vista Ultimate...

I decided not to take the hammer approach (:)), and to turn off the UAC. This was more difficult than I expected because this is a French Language PC, so lots of basic stuff is spelt differently. I also turned on the hidden administrator account. In case anybody else is in the same dilemma...

TBH I am constantly frustrated by the "Vista knows best" approach to security. I cannot install anything without several confirmations that I realoly want to, and now I have discovered another issue. I want to configure a port for my own use. Vista will not allow me to. Presumably if I could...

Thanks Kemical. They offer a re_install (Which failed to fix the problem), or that I move Digiguide to "My Documents". I tried both and so far the latter has worked. It's a bit of a naff solution becaust it fails to address the real problem, but it works fine. Regards John

I use a TV guide called DigiGuide. Every ten minutes or so I get a Modal Popup window that says "Failed to save user profile because of the following error (5). Accès refusé. ( It is a French machine). The title bar of the popup unhelpfully just says "Error". I think I have...