access issues

I cannot access things like "gadgets" because the system tells me only administrators can use these. I'm the only admin on my home network. How do I fix this? On another problem: I cannot modify my screen background thru the NVIDIA setup. I have an NVIDIA card and a fully compatible screen...

When in a VDI environment with virtual desktop pools and connecting via RD Web Access, if you click the 'X' on the Connection Bar and then click 'Cancel', the session disconnects regardless. Link Removed

This problem suddenly appeared and after I had successfully managed to connect to the servers. I recently purchased this Dell XPS 8300 with Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium and am trying to connect to a Win2000 and a Win2003 server. I can connect to other Windows 7 machines on this network without...

I just formatted and installed afresh Win7 Ultimate N on a WD1000GB. Since setup screen it recognized only 3 of 5 disk drive (all of same HDD). Before that I resized two of the drives with `EASEUS Partition Master 8.0.1 Home Edition` but I did so for the drives he actually recognized. (I...

Hello, I got an HP Mini 1000 (1154NR) Netbook with a bad HDD. I bought a new drive and did a fresh installation of Windows 7 Ultimate. The installation went just fine. But when I boot up everything seems normal. My wireless connection gets on to the internet and I can surf. But when I try to...

Hi, Can someone help me connect to my other PC through WORKGROUP? I've done turning on the network discovery, file and printer sharing, sharing so anyone with network access can read and write..., & password protect. Here's a zip file, if you think you know it you can check it...

I got pop up in utorrent says a directoy is corrupt, I start to run chkdsk on that drive. in this case in have drive letter E. I click on computer, then go to the drive, right click, properties, tools, check now. it says the drive is need to to forced to dismount. I click on ok. then in...

During an automatic update from Microsoft last night the battery fell out of my daughters laptop. This morning, nothing will open. Have tried safe mode but even that won't open windows. After a lot of digging it says on the recovery management that there is a bad patch which presumably if the...

I have an issue accessing the files within NAS share from cmd prompt on Windows 7 professional. Details: I have mapped the X: to a shared NAS folder. I could access the folder and see the files through windows Explorer, but when I go to "cmd" prompt and "cd X:" and type in the command dir it...

I recently decided to put my videos onto a "decomissioned" computer. I put all the videos into the "public" folder on my computer but when I try to access the files on my other Windows XP computer, windows media player shows up and runs it as a music file with No video. Is there a fix to this...

I've done some searches to try and find the solution, but I haven't found them yet so my apologies if I've obviously overlooked something. I began having BSOD's on my PC, after a significant amount of work, I made the decision to repair the files through Windows 7 with the option to retain my...

I have a custom build pc, with all new parts besides the HDD. I have been getting random BSOD an i can figure out why. I have the windows error report when the pc restarts. Also i can not upload the dump it says i dont have access to it. Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen...

I am using a computer as a storage area network, which means i have a shared hard drive mapped to 12 computers in the network, since i upgraded the operating system from server 2003 to windows 7 professional 64bit I'm having a problem that only the computers with windows 7 can access the...

Hi all, I have changed the permission of E drive, and now i cant access my E drive with my administrator id too, kindly help me , there is very important data in my E drive. am also attaching the error.... Link Removed reply Earlier... Thanks In Advance

I am currently running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit and am having trouble with Windows Media Player. I have run Spybot Search and Destroy as well as Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and McAfee. Spybot, for the last several weeks has constantly picked up problems with every scan. I have checked under...

External hard drive salvaged from computer running Windows XP Encased, plugged into USB on new computer running (not by choice) Windows 7 (Know where this is going?) Given every permission and ownership to new computer to have its way with docs on external drive. Can't copy docs from external...

Hi This issue has been hanging around for months. I get a notice that there are updates for Quicktime, so I tell it to go ahead and it always fails with an error that says Getlasterror 5:! Today I decided to fix this so I did some research and found that it's a fairly common problem. I...

Hi All, First time I have posted here......ok, brand new install of Win7 x64. I have just my username acc as Administrator, no UAC levels selected, take ownership context menu installed, used it only on one or two folders only to allow access for software installs. Have installed all my...

Win 7 networking appears to me to be way less friendly than WinXP networking. I have been networking multiple WinXP computers for years so I have some experience. While not a total noob, in all honesty I would not classify myself as "expert" by any means. I recently converted my (3) desktop...

Environment: Desktop : Windows 7 Ultimate Laptop1 : Windows 7 Home Laptop2 : Windows 7 Ultimate Laptop1 can view and access the libraries on the Desktop. Laptop2 can see the libraries on the Desktop but can not access the folders. I'm not sure what to do here, I've tripple checked that...