file security

Hey all, First off, let me state that I have looked elsewhere (on other windows forums and tech forums in general) for solutions to this problem, but to no avail. I have found problems similar to the one I'm experiencing, but no tech support guy or gal has got the answer figured out. This is...

Hi, I have a problem that occurred only in some Win 7 Ultimate systems. In my setup is suppose (among others) to copy files to the "Program Files" & "System32" directories. The problem occurred when the setup try to copy files to the "System32" directory. The install shield raise this error...

Hello, When I open a Macro-Enabled speadsheet I get the security warning notification bar appearing but then when I click on the options button to enable the macros that choice is not available, (unlike when I do the same thing on a Vista machine). I have attached a copy of the dialogue boxes...

Hello. I am on a network where my boss has access to all of my data using my id and password via the network (he does not login to my computer). There are personal drives/folders that I would like to hide from him even seeing. Is it possible to set a permission on a drive/folder to be "local...

I want a specific file to never be able to written on to any of my disks. How would i go about doing this? Hash checking or name checking will be suitable.

Hi. I have 3 computers under the same workgroup with a Shared folder. Server (Windows 7) User 1 (Windows Xp) User 2 (Windows Xp) User 1 and 2 Have the shared folder as a mapped network drive. Now what we need is: inside the Shared folder there is another folder called Admin which I only want...

Hi, Could someone help me please, I am using two computers at home, both Windows 7. One is pc, Other is laptop. Problem is, some file that I downloaded off the net to my laptop, had a 'lock' symbol on its icons.. Link Removed And those files with a lock symbol on it, prevented my pc to 'see'...

Hi. If I try to download/open a .zip file, there comes a pop-up with the text 'Windows found that this file is potentially harmful.' So what may be the problem? I'm using Windows 7 Professional. I have tried many things, such as Registry-editing, download some programs (don't know anymore...

Hi, I have a bunch of files and folders that i want hidden from the other users on my computer. I have one of two admin accounts, the rest are limited. I have set the correct permissions settings (Changing from Allow to Deny ) in C:\Users Now, when a user makes a search from within the START...

Greetings all. I am a Windows 7 Ultimate user, who ran into a problem in a game. I lost a key-item to continue the story, but to get it back means to reload a save so far back, and I truly do not look forward to this. So, I figured to simply get me one through the console of that game. This...

Ounce of prevention... The old saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure is a huge understatement when it comes to dealing with virus threats. Virus detection programs do just THAT... they DETECT viruses that have already infected your system. Some AV programs run all the time...

I would like to un-protect a specific file in a Program Files (x86) subfolder, which the system will not allow me to change without requiring administrative approval (UAC). Is this possible? The file is C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref\Firefox.js, and I need the system login...

I was wondering how I would hide my hard drive from being seen by other users but still be visible to me when I am logged on. I have searched endlessly for an answer to no avail. Most of what I've gathered is that you can hide the drives but they wont be seen by any of the users and you can...

Hey guys, Recently I reformatted my hard drive and put a clean install of Windows 7 onto it, but I'm having a problem with a folder on my external drive now (note: I didn't reformat the external drive and the OS I had before was also Windows 7). On my external drive I have a folder labeled...

Is there a way I can have the "Create system image" done daily. say as a scheduled task? I feel much more comfortable with that instead of the regular backup.

Using sfc.exe /scannow yields this error "Windows resource protection found files but was unable to fix them, details are included on the CBS.log After checking out the CBS.log this seems to be the problem: CSI 000005f3 [SR] Verify complete 2009-08-03 19:23:59, Info CSI...

i get this message when i open sisoft, and u torr and couple others, just started happening out the blue. Wondering if theres a security setting i can over ride to remove the issue thanks for your help

Hey W7F, I am using Build 7022 of Win7. I had some guests stay at my house, so I locked Guests from accessing specific Program Files. Now, Iwant to remove the programs (adobe CS4) altogether, and Adobe uninstaller crashes under any user, including admin. So I think, i'll just manually...

I have the "Uniblue- Speed up My PC" it's not a bad product. It fixes junk and privacy files spectacular fashion. I would also like to say that before SP1, I had loads of registry errors. My registry cleaner kept fixing them, and I still get registry errors to fix, although not as many. I'm...

I just installed Windows 7 as a fresh install. I am coming from XP so I don't know anything about Vista or 7. When I was using XP, my documents (pictures, video, music) were private from other users on my computer. I can't figure out how to do this on Windows 7. All I want is when another user...