Recent content by pmennen

Yes, thank you kemical ... that did work. I guess the error message is erroneous, because windows was able to install to the GPT disk after all, so the reason windows couldn't install to the disk was something else. Too bad it didn't give a valid error message, since then I probably could have...

I'm trying to install win10 to a new SSD on an intel NUC5i5RYK. I created a GPT partition table containing two equal size partitions using GPARTED (Knoppix). Then I booted to a win10 install DVD (usb device) using the default bios settings. Windows setup shows the two primary partitions...

I have a windows 7 computer with a stylus pen and I often use the pen like I would use a piece of scratch paper (sometimes with someone looking on). I've been using "paint.exe" - a program created around the time of the dinosaurs, but it still works. As simple as this program is, it still has 3...

Oh my gosh ... you are right. In advanced sharing options, I expected file sharing to be on as I had once set it, but actually I found that it was turned off. How embarrassing that I could miss something so simple. My only excuse is that when I turned off the windows firewall I could see my...

Yes, correct assumption about the OS ... it is win7Pro x64. Yes, I checked the workgroup and it is the same workgroup used by all the computers in my network. Also it is listed on my son's computer has a "Home Network" (i.e. not public). So looks like the problem must be elsewhere. Any more...

I used the standard trick of assigning permissions to the "Everyone" group to allow file sharing among all the Windows 7 and winXP computers on my home network. All was working fine until my son took his computer to school and they made him load their security software. When he came home for...

> What type of file is it? That innocent looking question from "Saltgrass" turned out to be key. Most of the files in the folders in question where .doc, but I thought the problem was with all the files. It turns out the problem was ONLY with the .doc files and the problem has nothing to do...

> If you are seeing "Administrator" as the owner, then at some time previously, a user > has enabled the Global Administrator account and secured the ownership under that . Actually I had misstyped that. It really said "Administrators". But no matter that ... it looks like this could still be...

On a Windows 7 ultimate system (svc pack 1), when I try to open any file in the my documents folder I get an error message that says that this operation "needs elevation". So I picked one particular file that I couldn't open and I looked at the owner in the security tab. Indeed the owner...

Ok, I think I fixed the above problem. When I look at the network adapters in the network and sharing center, I see four of them. My wireless adapter, my Gigabit Lan Connection, and two VMware adapters. (I had installed the free VMware player a week or so ago). I wasn't using VMware at the time...

The computer name of my Win7(64b) Desktop is called "AVA". For the purposes of debuging, I've disabled AVA's LAN adapter and connected it to the network by enabling its Dlink DWA556 wireless adapter. The attached system config file represents this decision. In addition to AVA I have 3 other Win7...

Ok, thanks very much for your suggestions. I had worked around the problem when I started to use NetSetMan to manage my two commonly used network configurations which made it easy to simply disable the wireless adapter in my usual home network configuration. (It is re-enabled in my less commonly...

Oh my gosh ... how embarrassing. I've never had it assign the cdrom before the disk drives, so I wasn't even looking there. I can see why the earlier posters wanted to see a screen capture. I was looking for complicated explanations, but the answer was right there in front of me. Thanks for...

Hi jackoab. Thanks for replying, although unfortunately I haven't the foggiest idea what you mean. Do you see a "D:" anywhere in the screen capture in my last post? I certainly don't. Perhaps somehow "D" is assigned to that first partition that shows a blank as the volume label, but if that is...

Ok, that's what I have done. The image should be attached to this reply ... I hope :) Thanks. ~Paul