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    Working with Windows Firewall... blocking internet for certain user and only allowing LAN Access

    Hello everyone, I'm trying to create a few rules in a Windows 2012 Firewall. It's currently joined to a domain and would like the following rules: Allow all internet and LAN access for the security group "admin" block 80, 443, 8443 only for the internet for the security group "user" allow all...
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    Windows 7 Im stuck im not very technical im a new user i locked my self in as admin but not sure email i used

    Can any body tell me wot i do next im trying get myself back as main user only me uses it iv add bfor helpmgs 2221.=?unsure now its helpmsg 3506. =?wots that mean it says Message# Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Windows 10 Help Needed: Reset Windows 10 Admin Password Without Losing Family Data

    I have a Dell PC which has accounts for all members of the family - W10 Myself as admin others as users I don’t use it … as I have my own PC. Daughter advised me Anti-virus about to expire – went to install new license and W10 does not accept (or I have forgot) my password. Is there a way of...
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    Windows 8 Unable to log on to/into my computer.

    Specifics: I use a Dell core i3 laptop (10 months old). The operating system is windows 8.1. There are two users: myself being primary (admin), and my daughter being secondary. I switch the laptop on, then enter the password, what the laptop refuses to accept. Though, my daughter (as secondary...
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    Windows 8 Windows 8.1 help?

    I did something stupid two days ago and because of that I have problem download file. I have my own account and I was admin but I have a guest account as well, I was stupid enough to let the guest account be admin and now I can not change it. I want my account to be admin just like before but...
  6. Cooker

    Windows 10 "You don't currently have permission to access this folder" (USB drive)

    Just joined. New one for me:: "You don't currently have permission to access this folder" but its not a file problem, it's the USB drive. Tried to change permissions - Administrator has a Red X in permissions. Ch'd to 'Everyone', etc .. doesnt matter. this is weird. Suspect latest...
  7. Bear

    Windows 10 forced readonly on root folders

    Idk wth is going on but its getting extremely annoying... I have a folder "neard" in c:\ so its c:\neard\ and its a lamp stack. every time I try to delete a folder/file in c:\neard\www it get a administrator required and then it still fails. I've tried setting the permissions and they all show...
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    Windows 7 Installing program without Administrator access

    Hello, I need some help, I have an old dell latitude e7240, and I wanted to use it for CES Granta, because I use MacBooks however this program cannot run on that OS. So the issue is when I try to install a program it asks for administrator login. I don't know my old administrator login details...
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    Windows 7 Unable to access encrypted folders and files

    Hi, Can anyone please help me on this :- I had mistakenly added a encryption to my one of the folder in D drive in Windows 7 and then had my Windows formatted and installed fresh again. The user from whom the encryption was initiated, is no deleted (as windows is formatted). Now when I access...
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    Windows 7 How to find files+folders with access perm.not equal to owner?

    Assume I have a big directory tree. 1.) How can I find out all (non-inherited) access permissions of user unequal to the current owner? 2.) How can I find out all (non-inherited) access permissions of users which are unequal to "Administrators" and "peter'? 3.) How can I find out all...
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    Windows 7 Take Ownership only for files+folders of user "karl"?

    Assume I have a huge directory tree with lots of files and folders. Some of them belong to (simplified) user "karl" (or unknown user "S-1-5-21-107808153") others not. When I execute now a command like takeown /f * /a /r /d y then ALL files+folders get the "Administrators" account as owner. I...
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    Windows 7 Switch ownership of "normal" folders (tree): Disadvantages?

    When I inspect my file system some of my "normal" (=non system) folders then I can see owners like "S-1-5-21-15185678....." or "S-1-5-21-107808153 Why do only approx 30% of all folders have "S-1-5-21-151..." as owner and all others "Administrator"? I dislike these "S-1-5-21-......" owners and...
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    Windows 10 how to give admin permission to a program to run indefinetly

    I would like not to have to log in as an admin every time this certain program runs
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    Windows 7 Require Administrator Password For All Users

    Is there a way to set a windows computer to require an administrator password, even if the current user is an administrator, in order for a program to run as administrator? For example, when an administrator runs a program as administrator, they get this prompt: Could it be set to give them...
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    Windows 10 Overcoming Administrator Blocks on Samsung Driver Installation EXE Files

    Trying to open an exe file from Samsung I get the User Account message that the qpp has been blocked by an administrator for security reasons. I have administrator privilegies and the same happens if I run the exe file explicitly as administrator. samsung has recalled the certificate för the...
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    Locked out of all Domain Administrator accounts on Windows Server 2008 R2 DC

    Thanks in advance for your time. I have been unsuccessfully trying to backdoor back into my domain controller (Win Server 2008 R2), but maybe there's a utility or solution I haven't tried yet. Both mine and my backup admin's domain admin accounts are locked out (with no timeout, as this is a...
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    Windows 10 Links in Outlook 2007 does not work :-( SOLVED

    I get this message when i klick on links in Microsoft Outlook 2007: "Operation was interrupted due to restrictions defined for this computer. Contact system administrator." Have uninstalled/reinstal but still have the same problem. Please help me fix this! :-)
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    Windows 10 Multiple users on my C: drive? Where do they cone from, and can I delete them?

    Hi Everybody, I have a basic question. This is probably all very normal, but as far as I can remember there are only three possible users on my compute .... "me", a "guest", and a mysterious "Administrator". But, My "C:\User\" DIRECTORY shows a bunch of users I don't recognize, and although...
  19. blksith0

    Windows 10 Change Default Command Prompts to Admin

    Hi, I'd to make my cmd open as an administrator by default. I know I can hit Win+X->'a', but I want to open the admin-cmd anywhere. Normally I open cmd in a folder either by: 1. Typing 'cmd' into Windows Explorer url bar [preferred method] 2. shift+right-click -> open cmd as administrator So...
  20. stealthiii

    Windows 7 Help with removing old passwords from computers

    Hello all, I have two desktop stations that were previously used by two of my paralegals. They have since moved on to other companies, but they failed to leave the passwords for these machines. I was not managing partner at the time, or the computers would have been set up as network machines...
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