Recent content by Lazure

I have some programs that -force- windows classic look even though I am running Aero. This really bugs me because I can't stand the classic look and it looks terribly inconsistent and ugly with the rest of the apps I run... I looked around and it turns out that older applications need a...

I went ahead and reformatted and reinstalled Windows 7. The drive was STILL denying me permission! How on earth did windows remember the permissions set on that drive if the whole OS was wiped? Anyways, at least this time, I was able to take ownership and then ran an "icacls D:\ /Grant Users:F...

C:\Users\Lazure>takeown /f D:\ ERROR: Access is denied. C:\Users\Lazure>icacls d:\ /grant Lazure:F d:\: Access is denied. Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files That's what I get in an elevated Command Prompt. The odd thing is, when I booted to my Win7 install disc, I was...

That's just it, how can I take control of a drive whose been set "full control" denied to even the admin? :( If I even so much as type cacls d: I get "access is denied". If I go to "Computer", the drive doesn't even show how much space it has anymore, and if I right click and go to...

I accidentally denied permissions to Users to one of my entire harddrives (was trying to only do it to ONE folder, but explorer screwed up and decided that right clicking on the folder didn't count!) and not even my Admin account can unset it. (Access is denied). Is there any way to fix this, or...

Currently, the only way to play those games with proper colors is to kill the "explorer.exe" process, which we all know is never healthy :(

I found out throughout time that the reason this occurs, at least for me, is when I am managing files on a different drive or partition. Windows 7, for some stupid reason, denies me, the administrative user, write access to my OWN partitions and drives on the same computer that aren't "C:". So...

I wonder how hard it would be for someone to create a simple tool that's capable of doing this?

Easiest way to do this, would be to download "VirtualBox" (it's free), and install Windows 7 to it. You can screenshot from the host perspective, paste, crop and save it with photoshop/gimp/whatever.

What's wrong with them being Aero? Aero is -way- better than any of that windows 98 ugly rubbish, no one's going to make themes for that anymore! That said, I only use one theme so far, and it includes backgrounds I made myself. But the person used as a subject in all my designs is not someone...

That'd be AWESOME if I could have my theme (including window colors) change ever so often, based on certain factors -- including the weather. I could have my colors turn blueish when it's raining or pink when it's lightning or my normal purple when it's sunny or cloudy =p Problem is, this...

At some point during my usage, the effects for minimizing, closing, opening, and maximizing get turned off by Windows. I'll be enjoying the effects until at some point... closing and opening windows become instant (like in Windows XP or older), same with minimize/maximize. I never turn these...

Like the title says, randomly throughout the day, my desktop wallpaper will stop changing itself like it should. When it does this, it actually creates a NEW theme of my theme with just the one wallpaper and slideshow turned off. I can't figure out what it is that is causing this, but it's...

That's what I did, I had a list of logitech cameras in there, I picked mine. Forced it to install them despite the warnings, and it says "Camera is in use". Without those, it doesn't get detected at all save for a "!" Camera thing in device manager.

Well, I did this after all other things wouldn't work. I put in drivers that will show up in the hardware list when you manually select a driver. Those just simply cause it to say camera is in use by another app. If I uninstall them, it goes back to being 'cannot detect a camera or camera is not...