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I have a Lenovo y560 laptop with a core i7 740-QM processor, 8gb ram, and ati radeon 5730 graphics card. The laptop came with Win7 Home Premium, but I formatted the hard disk and installed Win7 Professional 64-bit to gain some more space, since there were two partitions which Lenovo uses to help...

I had downloaded a file and when I was done with it I wanted to delete the folder, subdirectories, and files. I kept getting "Access Denied." Went into properties and under Security, the owner was not named and I could not change it by editing it. Everytime I tried to change the attrib read only...

I've noticed several threads discussing some of the annoying "protections" put in place by Microsoft in Win7. On the one hand, at this moment, I share the sentiment that it's my computer, therefore, I ought to be able to access whatever I want. On the other hand, I'm all too aware that rogue...

I am running Windows 7 Pro (64). I have 2 hard drives installed. The (C) keeps my system and program files. A second 1GB hard drive is used for back-ups, pictures, music, etc. I checked and recked all permissions, and they are in order. There is only one user on the computer...Admin. I was...

Hi all, i am new to this forum and am in great need of knowelabdel assistance . Basically i tried to secure several files in my Western Digital HDD by right clicking and selecting the option "share with ....nobody". this allowed me to still enter the file afterwards. Next time i log on my drive...

Hi there , I searched and hope I'm in the right place to get a walkthrough on this. Even though I'm setup as the administrator. I'm still getting Access Denied when I try to end a process that I started (for example a game.exe) or, when I try to access folders or change the host file. I am the...

Discusses that you receive an "Access Denied" error message when you try to write to an LFS DVD disk in Windows 7. Provides a resolution. More...

Consider the following scenario. 1. You insert a new DVD-RW disk, or insert a used one and erase the contents on a computer that is running Windows 7. 2. You format the disk to "Live File System". 3. Once the wizard completes, you repeatedly write and... More...

Hi, I can't access my external hard drive on my computer but I can from my laptop I get the message the drive is not accessible, 'access is denied'. I was able to until recently, I use it for my backup. Any suggestions?

So, I recently began receiving this problem which disallows me (although I'm admin, and the only user account on the computer) from creating, moving, or accessing anything within the hard drive. I am also unable to download anything. I'm still able to access stuff outside of the hard drive, but...

So I've been trying to modify my hosts file for a while now. On and off because I was fed up with searching and trying different things then always ending up failing. So that is why I am posting on this forum, asking for help from you guys. So far I have tried: Unchecking Read-Only for...

Resolve issues where you receive the error: "The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. More...

Problem When installing a program with a setup file from my data partition (E:\) or a (virtual) disk to C:\ I get error codes indicating installer cannot create files in the temp folder. When I then copy the setup file to anywhere on C:\ it runs and installs without any problem. So I can't...

Hi! Thank you for reading this. Here's my problem: Problem I get errors when trying to install programs. They seem to relate to the temp folders. I have 4 partitions on my HD: a system partition of 100mb, c:\ 110GB with windows and programs, D:\ 8Gb for virtual mem, E:\ 800+GB data. When I...

Some days back my chkdsk started running after a reboot. Everything was fine until it found some errors and i got this line... Replacing invalid security id with default security id for file 97. Replacing invalid security id with default security id for file 98. Replacing invalid security id...

Running a clean installation of Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit, fully updated. I'm writing a document that I would like to include a hyperlink to a shortcut or batch file that the reader (my daughter) can simply click on and it will run chkdsk via batch file in a command prompt. When I run it...

I hope I'm in the correct section. I was refered to this site by another. Great community. To the problem. I was trying to set up a guest user account for others to use my laptop for school work and I tried to block areas of my computer by editing the permission or security. Without paying...

I'm new to the forum. Saw all the great help that has been offered to people (though I haven't found a solution to my problem yet, as it seems to be VERY specific). While looking for solutions I seemed to come very close to finding someone with my exact problem, but not quite. Here goes: I...

Troubleshoot problems accessing or working with files and folders in Windows. More...