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I have an external hard drive I use to store movie files I have transcoded from DVD into .mp4 format. I used up most of the space on a 1 TB drive, so I am importing files to a 2 TB drive. there are nearly 200 files that did not successfully transfer- which I have determined to be caused by a...

My Grandson gave me his old laptop, an Acer Aspire 5750. He can't remember his password to the administrator so I can't download and run any new programs. I can use the PC as a "user" but I want to update several programs. I previously got help here and then I put in a new keyboard and tried his...

Hello, I've been having this problem with my laptop only recently and I don't know what is causing it. The system does not recognize me as the administrator even though my account is the only one on the computer. Whenever I try to install or delete anything, a message pops up saying...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (December 10, 2013): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker sends a specially crafted LPC port message to any LPC...

My OS is Windows 7 Home Premium. In my User Accounts, I am the only user, which I set up to be Administrator, without setting a password. When I turn on my PC, I still see the Welcome screen. Is there a way to bypass the Welcome screen, given the way I have set up my User Account? Thank you.

I've turned on a guest account. Now I want to add a password to that account so only designated guests can use my PC. How?

Link Removed So I recently been unable to uninstall some malware that got onto my computer and it seems I can't run installers with a simple double click or rightclick+run as admin any more... It all throws up various errors related to admin permissions. I've found what does work shift+right...

I'm having a strange problem that I only had once before and was unable to fix on Windows 7. Now I'm getting the same issue on Windows 8. Last night I downloaded the font Roboto (used by Google for their Android UI) and all of the weights installed properly, except for the Regular and Regular...

I have a Windows 8x64, Build 9200 system. There are two users: Administrator (me) and Joe. Joe has a password, and I want to remove his password. I logged on as Admin and can't find the option (Control Panel\Users) to remove another user's password, as I could in Windows 7. Thanks!

Hey, I am going to walk you ladies and gents though step by step so you can tell me the best route to resolve my issue, mmmkay? 1. Bestbuy, puchased 128GB Thumb Drive. 2. Downloaded a game called ShotOnline (file ShotOnline.exe.) into the SanDisk 128GB Thumb Drive. 3. Got a 8AM - 8:50AM Class...

I got a history of being hacked by the router of my family which is not owned by me and get harassed by my brothers. I got suspicions about an account in my windows in which I didn't create and is not available in C:\Users. I activated the account Administrator and I am in total control of...

Hi i'm trying to install Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 (ISO) for Windows 64 bits to be able to program software for the x64 architecture. the only problem is that the installation fails. i tried with administrator option, i tried different directories but always...

hello please help me because i am in trouble I just purchase a new laptop with windows 8 on it, this is the first time I've ever used windows 8. I installed the game, and when I go to play it, I get a message saying: Insufficient privileges: you must be administrator when you run this...

Hi, I am the only user and administrator, this is shown in all settings, yet I apparently cannot do anything that requires administrator’s rights, e.g. - I cannot change the ‘hosts’ file. If I edit directly, cannot save, for not having permission; if I edit elsewhere and try to copy back, the...

I have been trying to play Fallout 3 GOTY for severl days. The game has installed (via Steam) but whenever I click on Play nothing happens. I have changed the properties to Run as Administrator and tried the Compatability as Windows XP, Vista and 7. Nowall I get is "The ordinal 42 could not be...

I have been getting weird random crashes.... Latest one was corrupted memory one My viewer program shows this on 4 dumps: ntoskrnl.exe+104c8a Other ones had these two on 1 dump: ntoskrnl.exe+104c73 nvlddmkm.sys+2b97dc This on 1 dump: dxgmms1.sys+2b0b ntoskrnl.exe+751a9 This on 1 dump...

Hello All - Trying to activate my legit copy of win7, having incredible amounts of frustration/difficulty Upon entering my product key, i get the 0x80070005 "Access is denied" error After some detective work, it appears that this problem is related to administrator/permission levels on the...

I have big problems with 8.1, software for DVD and Blu-ray discs will not work because my Blu-ray optical drive "disappears" from the operating system. When checking the listed devices at boot-up hopefully the drive is shown there. But when I launch a program (that used to work with XP and...

I have a client running Windows 7 64-bit Professional workstation. When he attempts to run the add printer wizard, he only receives the option to add a local printer. The second option to add a network printer, bluetooth or wireless printer does not appear. The spooler service is running and...

Just got a new pc that has W8, came from XP. I have a popcorn hour NMT with an internal HDD that I have networked and was working fine with my old pc. The drive is mapped and is visible in windows explorer and I can even upload files to it with Filezilla. When I try to modify a file through w...