computer management

Last month, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) will be free to use for organizations with up to ten (10) PCs, with the change being effect early in October. As announced in the Windows Security Blog, the change is effective today, October 7, 2010. Most small...

I'm the only user of the computer and supposedly have Admin rights. However, cannot manage computer or install any software. I activated the hidden Administrator account and created a new user account with admin rights, but same result, the new account cannot perform admin tasks. All this...

Hi, I'm having a problem not being able to access 2 out of 3 partitions in an external HD. Samsung HD753LJ (USB) 700GB Partition 1: 200 GB / NTFS Partition 2: 200 GB / NTFS Partition 3: 300 GB / NTFS I once had a dual-boot Windows XP Professional SP3 and Windows 7 Professional...

In a latest video tutorial effort, I will be attempting to show how to properly install, configure, and maintain Microsoft Windows Home Server. The latest video has been finished, while the setup and configuration portion is currently in development. I hope to offer transcripts of these guides...

After copy a lot copying file from my old computer to new Windows7 computer. I must have messed up because I now have in my c: drive: c:\Program Files 6/20/2010 4:27 PM c:\Program Files 6/20/2010 3:01 PM c:\Program Files(x86) 6/20/2010 1:50 AM This should be easy to...

in my computer management window there is a "USB Token" under "Other devices" and it has an exclamation point beside it. What is going on? What is a USB token and why is it not working?

So one day I decided to open up paint to paste a screenshot I took and got an error about ODBC32.dll not working. I just ignored it. Then today I realize that important things like msconfig, and Computer Management also use this dll file, so stupidly I tried replacing it with a copy from another...

I have Windows 7 on two computers. On one of the computers i want to downgrade from 7 to XP. I have the XP installation disk, but whenever I put the disk in to attempt to boot from it during startup, it bypasses it and boots normally. I checked the BIOS and disk is set to boot before the HD...

1. How do I disable the command prompt for a standard user account on my computer? 2. Can my geeky teenager get around Windows7 parental controls by using the command prompt from his standard account on my computer?

First, thanks for in advance for your help! Now on to the issue. I have a SBS 2003 domain ( I am a developer not a network admin, but manage to get by). I have a 25 workstation environment (currently all Windows XP SP2). My client has bought all new workstations - all of which are Windows 7...

hi guys... i have vista sp2 OS installed(this prob is same in win7 too),on my dell studio 1737 laptop...it has 2 hdd options,my primary hdd is 320GB n secondary one is 500GB (purely for data,movies,songs). when i install OS,n in my computer it takes 500GBs hdd 1st drive as D drive.n then 320GBs...

Section 1: Performing a Bare-Metal Backup Hello, this is Mike from Windows 7 Forums. In this video, I'm going to show you how to create a Paragon backup and restore image of a hard drive, using bare-metal backup and restore. What is a Bare-Metal Backup/Restore and Why Is it Useful? Bare-metal...

Link Removed Link Removed Sometimes you might have a shared computer where you don’t want the users to be able to do a Shutdown or...

My work place is just starting with Windows 7. I am having a problem in that if I add a user to a machine, they cannot see all of there drive mappings. If the user just logs on to the network with out being added to the machine, they can see all of there drive mappings. Any help with this...

I just recently got a new computer, and my brother tends to monkey with things. He's not very clean either, so I've installed to seperate instances of Windows 7 in a dual boot manner. One for him, one for me. Now when I log into either one, I can see the partition that is being used for the...

I wanted to make Windows 7 recognize my second hard drive. Following online instructions I went to control panel --> computer management --> storage. when the window opened it asked me what filetype the drive is. I accdentally/stupidly clicked CDFS. now storage manager sees the disk, but...

Hi there, Firstly, I'd like to apologize, I'm Spanish so translate Windows board messages to English is sometimes quite difficult. I was trying to create a new partition for installing XP, so I entered to Computer Management in Computer (from desktop icon) -> Manage from the only user account...

I've unchecked "Allow this device to wake the computer" for the Ethernet device. My bluetooth mouse and keyboard have both been checked to "Allow this device to wake the computer" which is right, yes? I do want to be able to wake my computer via mouse or keyboard. I'm running Avira Antivir...

Hi, I've been fighting this one for some time and still haven't figured out what caused it or how to fix it. I have a P205 s-6287 Tosiba laptop, 4gb ram, windows 7 home premium 64-bit OS. Under the Computer icon I have a phantom local drive (Q) showing up. If I click on it "it is not...

hi all yesterday i recived my DELL W7 upgrade pack for my XPS 625 32bit sys new on 16 oct 09. and decided to upgrade, inserted the DELL Upgrade assistant dvd and run and auto removed, DELL 968 AIO printer, AMD Fussion for gamers, ATI install manager then displayed big green tick stating ready to...