directory access

I have run into an interesting situation. I have a directory that I cannot do anything with always receiving an "access denied" response. Going into the security tab of properties gives me the message "You must have read permissions to view the properties of this object". Then "click advanced...

Windows made a poor choice doing away with the taskbar in windows media player. I want it back! I have looked online but the steps I found do not work. I have downloaded the WMPbandfile and extracted it but i cant seem to acess the WMP directory in program files so i can copy and paste...

I have a Seagate Backup Plus 8TB Desktop USB External Hard Drive on my Win 7 ASUS G73S laptop . It works well , just for one problem . If I don't access a directory on it for a few minutes , then when I do , the file display can take quite a while to come up , while I get a slow advancing green...

Assume I opened WinExplorer for a certain directory say D:\work Then I take a screen snaphot into a picture file or save a content into a new file from a 3rd program in this directory. Even after 5 minutes WinExplorer does NOT show the new files. I always have to click on another folder...

I've built my own application that searches for files and have set it to run as administrator, however it won't read/detect most of the sys files in c:\windows\system32\drivers. I did some checking and most cygwin EXEs also have the same problem. For example, if I cd to that directory and do...

I am wondering if anyone can help with this problem I am having... for some reason the Start menu.. the portion you can pin programs to, doesnt seem to be working correctly. I thought I found the directory that it uses: C:\Users\Raevyn\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick...

Hello everyone, I have 2 external harddrives, but windows 7 only works with one of them. Windows XP, Vista and Linux(doesn't matter which distribution) detect and can use both. When I connect the "defect" harddrive with the pc, autostart starts, but it loads for a long time. When I go to...

I was using Vista x32 Home Premium, WDS4 and IFilter to index text content in 20,000 PDFs with no problems. I just installed Windows 7 RC x64, which is supposed to have the WDS4 functionality built-in. I have swicthed on pdf content indexing in the Indexer control panel, enabled content...

I didn't know whether to put this in software or install but here it goes. I just cant seem to install C++ into windows 7 and since it is kind of important I can install any games either. I have an admin account and have tried running it as admin but I always get an "Error 1310" because it tells...