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If you've ever found yourself staring at your Windows Server, utterly frustrated as it stubbornly refuses to allow you to change the time zone, you're not alone. This issue manifests itself with the rather disheartening message: "Unable to continue. You do not have permission to perform this...

I've been working for a company for about five months from home and things are well. I installed their web based and other programs on my Dell. Today I was notified they want to install a 3rd party app for support that will need admin access. In my Dell I have a number of drives so I plan to...

Hi everyone. While Windows 11 has solved several problems that I've had, like not being able to sign in to Widows Terminal as Admin, there is one thing that I think is kind of weird. One is that it will sometimes open multiple copied of programs that it wouldn't do before. I discover that if I...

The bug can essentially break the built-in administrator account, so in cases where that's the only admin account you could lose admin access to the machine. Windows 10 version 1809 upgrade could invalidate Administrator account - gHacks Tech News

Hello, yesterday when i was cleaning my pc from files i misscilck and turned off all services. Today, i can't do anything that uses services, and i can't turn them on. I tried to restore system but it uses service so i can't do IT. Can someone help me? I have admin on my pc. I send some pic but...

I have a Toshiba Satelite C75D-B running Windows 8.1.. Basically my computer has stopped using IPv6. It will not work on ANY wifi network I try. I suspect it is the computer and not the networks.. When I open up the wifi status is says IPv6 Connectivity: No Internet Access. I have tried...

First and foremost, hello all! I'm new to the forum and it looks like there is a great wealth of knowledge here! Thanks in advance for all your help! Now.. onto the vexing issue I'm having.. I work for a large corporation and we maintain quite a large number of machines across the country. As...

Old management company left us with public PCs with Steady State type of setup. After a reboot PCs restore back to preconfigured state, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. However, Old IT did not leave admin passwords or ability to customize new settings. New IT guy is overwhelmed with other...

I reinstalled Windows 7,and everything was fine until I tryed updating it.Every time after installing and restarting it says "Failure configuring Windows updates. Reverting changes. Do not turn off your computer" and when I click on the details it's the "0x80070005" error (ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED...

Got a Windows 8 PC just a couple of days ago, and I was going to make a new account. In the Start menu, I clicked my account at the top and then Guest. Quickly found out it's not what I wanted, and then restarted to see if I could make a new account from the first login screen. And now, I can't...

While trying to add folders to the Search Index, I was informed the Windows Search process was not started. When I go to the Services Console and attempt to manually start, I am given the error: "Windows could not start the Windows Search service on Local Computer. Error 2: The system cannot...

I am the only user on my computer and I am registered as a Microsoft user, yet I still have to grant admin access to run certain programs and edit certain files. How can I grant myself access to everything?

I'm surprised not to be able to find this question; it must have an answer so simple it doesn't need asked, but here goes; So I want to deny all access to removable storage for standard users at our office on one computer. I've been able to deny that access in the user configuration branch of...

Hi everybody, I'll get straight to the point: I am trying to write a script, program, whatever to check if a service is running on a remote host. My idea was to get this to run on a Win 7 Enterprise machine, check if a specific service (SQL Server Agent) is running on a bunch of remote hosts...

After windows recently updated on one of my win7 machines, i can no longer see the other 4 computers on my network. 2 win7 Pro machines & 3 XP, all in same workgroup. I can see the affected win7 machine from all the other computers and can even access its files, the affected machine can...

I was trying to get into a hidden subfolder to delete a file from a old program. It asked for admin personon's. I hit OK and it look about 10min for windows to update the folder. The problem is that after that now all my folders in my profile are gone. My music, pictures, and everything. I...

My New Laptop doesn't have two users only one..and that user is me.. I don't have administrative rights so therefore I can't create an administrator..to do simple tasks such as delete a program,, or open up msconfig.. These functions need administrative rights.. How do I get these???? My...

SF IE Restorator - Troubleshooting General Issues with Internet Explorer Screenshot Note: Make sure when you open the application your Right Click on the icon and click Run as administrator. Flush / Review DNS IP: Most DNS clients cache the results of name resolution requests. This means...

Hi Mike I have completely revamped my forums look moving from SMF to MyBB . All data was transfered without loss ! I had the help of a guy I met on the Vidahost forum , they Vidahost are hosting my forum now . I had heard to many scary stories about Just Host to prompt a move to Vidahost ...

After a few hours of Windows 7, Sticky Notes broke! At startup I get the error message "Not able to launch Sticky Notes. Issue with accessing the file.(Quit)" I also get the same message whenever trying to open the application, or when using C:\Windows\system32\StikyNot.exe run as...