admin rights

Hi If the following is possible.. how do I do it ? On PC1 I have two users A (Admin) and B (Standard User) and Folder X On PC2 I have one user C (admin) PC1 and PC2 are on the same LAN I want Folder X to be accessible to A and C but not B... ????

I just installed Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit on two machines, and then Firefox 16.0.1 on each. Trying to replace the password files in my new profile, I found that many of these folders and files (in User\me\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla) cannot be deleted, nor can their ownership be changed. They...

Is there a way to bar "permanently get access to this folder" short of removing admin status?

Hey everyone, I recently got an HP laptop from mom's work with Windows 7 Pro. She is a teacher and her school was giving away old laptop's to make way for the new ones. Thankfully, she was able to snag one for me, since my old HP died. The problem that I am coming up against is that I am...

Hello! I am using Win7 Ultimate x64. Suddenly, it became impossible to safely remove external disc. At first it froze the computer. It became a "blue screen" and memory dumping before restarting. I chose to start Windows normally and then made a thorough check of my C drive, made on a deep...

Hello everybody, I am just new here and was wondering if you guys might have a solution for this problem that has been bothering me alot: If I run the setup of new program I recently get this error message more and more: Setup was unable to create the directory...

I tried SuperAdBlocker, but it didn't work with IE 9 nor Firefox 17 Nightly, both 64 bit. Having uninstalled, a single file named SABSVC stayed in the installation folder, I couldn't remove it for 'used in a program'. I found it among the 'Services' in the Task Manager but couldn't stop it for...

Hi folks, I was trying to uninstall a print driver for a network printer for one of my users (Windows 7), and I ran into that issue where it tells you that it can't remove the drivers because they are still in use (this after stopped and restarting the spooler, rebooting, etc.). So I was...

Hi Forums, I am getting this error all the time with Windows 7. I open a text file I want to edit, then go to save my changes and I get this error: "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" I have full admin rights, running Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1. From...

hello everyone, I have a windows 7(SP1) peer-peer netwrk at my work place. In order to block usb write access for users i have created three accounts superAdmin : Administrator account with no restrictions localAdmin : Administrator account with removeable disk deny write access policy enabled...

Once again I have setup here an 64bit Win7 pro system. Many of the files from the D: partition were taken from the previous Win7 system resp. copied from another Win7 (WinXP) computer. When I look at some of the security tabs of some of the files and folders then various user entries exist...

No matter what compiler I elect to use (I have tried codeblocks, bloodshed dev C++, visual studio c++ express 2005, visual studio 2008 & 2010 and eclipe [java]) when i attempt to rebuild a project after executing it once, it will link and compile, but and error will appear stating that the...

Works laptop, have admin rights. I set the Power Options to Balanced but within a few hours it's back to the corporate one. I presume this is a group policy setting somewhere. As I have full admin rights, is there a regedit to stop this? Cheers (p.s. not interested in the debate if I should...

Greetings, I am currently solving the following puzzles: 1) I need to restrict use of an account to certain hours, however it is greatly undesirable to limit any other function of the account (except, of course, the ability to change parental control settings). 2) I would like to be able to...

Hello, I have a query about the aero theme where it is not loading on a couple of our PC's at work. It appears to work when logged in as a local administrator however when we login using a domain accounts with elevated IT rights we only get a grey classic start menu and none of the graphics -...

Trying to install a program on win7 (64bit) and it says "The following error occured on the file "c:\windows\sysWOW64\odbc32.dll" Access is denied. (0x5)" I have admin rights to this comp and I am running the install as an admin. The only thing I can think of is another program is using...

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...

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...

Hi – I am trying to setup a Win7 Pro PC backup so that the primary user does not have any admin rights. Setup Standard user login and then another separate login for file backups. Created a new login called Backup1, and assigned this User Account to the Backup Operators Group, and Users Group...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (January 10, 2012): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a legitimate file with...