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Some days back my chkdsk started running after a reboot. Everything was fine until it found some errors and i got this line... Replacing invalid security id with default security id for file 97. Replacing invalid security id with default security id for file 98. Replacing invalid security id...

In one of my tools (and in many other utilities out there) there is the option to specify a certain computer (in the local LAN) by computername. So I tell the tool: Connect to remote computer "maggie" on port 1521 in LAN and do something.... Unfortunately the tool is not able to find...

Describes how to reset the Hosts file back to the default. More...

Hello, I know this title I posted seems to be very general and alot of websites actually answers that question, but I'm really stuck coz I find my laptop one of a kind. Alright so here goes the problem, I installed Windows 7 on my laptop, and due to my personal needs, I have to install adobe...

I can access most websites from my laptop except for a handful, as stated in the title. I can access them from other computers on my network. Link Removed Adobe Link Removed www.police.sa,gov.au Link Removed These are a few of the sites I cannot access. I am also unable to access any...

I didn't find a hosts file in the SysWOW64 folder, but I did find one in the "usual" place windows\system32\drivers\etc and I see it's NOT set to read-only. But when I try to edit it with notepad and save as "all files" rather than .txt (to avoid notepad giving it a .txt extension) it fails to...

Hello, I have a system with Windows 7 on it and now I also installed the latest version of Wamp on it. All is fine, but today created a new MySQL Database for a dynamic site and checking the DB Tables with the old MySQL GUI Admin Tool I noticed under Server Information the Network Name which is...

Not 100% on how this happened. The last thing I did was change my c/windows/system32/drivers/etc host file(I know, I probably shouldn't have done that) and then rebooted my computer. After reboot I got a few system errors, than ran a hdd defragmenter (system recommended). Now my computer is...

Alright I have stumped many and have been directed to come here an solve the problem. I have a lenovo t400 windows 7 32bit laptop that will not load pros.servicemagic.com at all. No errors just will load to 3/4 and that is all, just a whit screen and a load bar that says loading it never times...

Ok, I've searched far and wide (mostly in forums relating to WAMP and APACHE), but I suspect this is related to Win7, so I thought I'd try here. I've used WAMP for several years, with several vhosts set up on development machines using WinXP, then Vista, and now Win7. This *same* setup worked...

I am trying to access a network share at my workplace and am unable with the windows 7 machines. With the XP machines I can hit \\x3400 and \\10.10.1.x and accessed shared folders. With Win7 I can hit \\10.10.1.x but \\x3400 gives me the ol' unspecified MS error 0x80004005. Firewalls are...

Well I log in at my pc as an Admin and I wanted to edit host file.. but this is impossible since I cant in anyway give to my self the rights to do that. I've read a lot of articles, and some of them says to run wordpad as an admin (from the properties option) but wordpad is only under windows...

I have a problem in installing Appserv 2.6.0 in my colleague's windows 7 computer. After installation apache didn't start and just show blank page with the page can't be displayed. Then I tested in my windows 7 computer with the same version and installation and it works fine. Then tried to...

Hello, I've tampered with my hosts file when installing some software, which didn't end up working for me in the end. Are there any big issues with keeping my file in this state? It seems to be ok but I would like to return my hosts file to its original state, and all the tutorials online...

Hello everyone, I'm using windows 7 x64 Ultimate I want to edit my hosts file. I've found it in the directory C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-w..nfrastructure-other_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_6079f415110c0210. The problem is I can't edit it in no way. I've tried: Open...

Last week vBulletin.com went through a server update and since then I haven't been able to reach it....on one of my computers. My second computer reaches the web site fine. What would cause only one web site to be unreachable with just one computer using the same router? I'm thinking it may be...

I cannot find the hosts file and need to check that it has not been changed. Looked in: %systemroot%\system32\drivers Can anyone help?

I've used Hosts files for many years. This spring I started using Orbit's downloader to save flash video files while using RC7 and no problems. I installed it on my new retail install a few days ago. The first thing I noticed was my IE shortcut to Weather channel didn't load then some more...

I was adding something to my hosts file yesterday and in order to do so I removed the read-only from the entire system32 folder and all contents. After restarting the computer it wouldn't boot up so I figured this was the problem. I booting with the Win7 disc, and put read-only on the entire...

hey guys, i wanted to ask that if the large host file slowing the machine issue,inherent in Win 7,because it wasnt the issue in Win98.One would think,they have overcome the problem. thanks K'dude