file ownership

I have a school laptop which had windows 7 installed and my account "Cameron" is an administrator on the windows 7, however the permissions in the hard drive are set to some other admin account. I changed the owner of the files through the permissions to "Cameron" from some other random admin...

I am getting this when trying to install a program: Microsoft Installer Error: 1326 It has to do with having permission to create a file. I can't find any help on getting around it. I have taken ownership of files and folders. I am running as administrator. I have run the install as...

I'm trying to copy a series of files from my old XP machine to the new Win 7 machine. I've turned off User access control, I made myself the owner of the machine, etc., the files on the old machine have no permissions preventing the copying. I am the owner of both machines and there is no...

Hello, To All If I have posted this in the wrong location please forgive me. My problem is that I encrypted files while running Vista and then installed Windows 7 with no problems except. That my certificate and key for Vista is in with the files that were encrypted. So I get the Access...

I was having a discussion on another forum, and got fascinated by an observation another member had made. If you use the default desktop, the welcome screen only stayed for 2 or 3 seconds. If you customised the desktop, this deteriroated to, in the worst cases, about 50 seconds. I began to...

Hey, I've got tow hard drives, one with an old xp install that contains all the music I have collected over the years. Now I can't seem to play a great deal of the songs in windows 7 in either WMP or Winamp. Now I'd just listened to these songs a week ago on XP. I've taken ownership and have...

Alright I have a very frustrating problem. I consider myself a fairly advanced user, however I have exhausted all possibilities that I know off. I have done a clean install of windows 7 build 7100 64 bit. Before I installed the os I backed up some files on a secondary hard drive. Now I am...

First- Thank you in advance for any input you have, and sorry if this seems like a re-post, but I can't seem to find anyone who is having quite the same problem or a solution that seems to work. Basically it is denying me access to brand new files. EX I shot some texture photos today, applied...

Whenever i try to access my 2nd HDD partition's, it says 'Access is Denied'. I have a dual boot of Vista, XP and Windows 7. All say Access is Denied when i try to access them. The weird thing is, i can still access some Shares from those drives. I noticed it when i used XBMC and i could still...

Hello all. I recently been trying out windows 7 and I have a small delemma. I had a second HDD on a share and I turned off home group. THat hard drive is now denying me access. I have taken ownership but not all the files were switched over. Basically my music and pictures. Does anyone know how...

OK, so I tried patching 7 to remove the watermarks and stuff, and after that, I tried installing GTA IV, which ended up in a "not compatible" error. Tried the XP SP2 compatibility mode, but it displays a "setup has stopped working" message. A guy in this forum stated that reinstalling 7 to...