ownership

I have been researching this problem for days, and Windows 7 seems to be a common factor, hence this post. I have a Maxtor Central Axis network drive that I have used for a number of years for backups. I reorganised it a while back and recently decided to do some housekeeping and empty the old...

I'm running windows 7 ultimate and am trying to install some software off of a secure server at a remote location to my hard drive. The install fails every time because the my user account (an administrator) does not have full write permissions to the program files directory. I have tried...

I have made some changes to Trusted Installer last night on my windows 7 laptop and I'm nervous that I may have messed it up. I followed this article instructions. Windows 7 – How to Delete Files Protected by TrustedInstaller I did this because I just switched to Windows 7 and my Itunes kept...

SOMEBODY HELP ME Link Removed I tried to take an ownership of a folder and as i see in the photo I couldn't althought i am one of the administrators group which is the surrent owner of the folder :( if somebody has any idea about that please i need help :$ Thanks in advance

I had downloaded a file and when I was done with it I wanted to delete the folder, subdirectories, and files. I kept getting "Access Denied." Went into properties and under Security, the owner was not named and I could not change it by editing it. Everytime I tried to change the attrib read only...

Hi! I have windows 7 ultimate installed, with multiple admin accounts. What I want is a private folder, that would be not be accessible to other admins. The problem is that other admins can take ownership of my folder and change permissions. What can I do? (besides using specialized third...

1.) How can I find out EXACTLY (presumably with with CACLS or ICACLS) all files or folders in a directory tree which have an owner which contains the pattern "aaa"? 2.) How can I find out EXACTLY (presumably with CACLS or ICACLS) all files or folders in a directory tree which have NOT an...

Hiya- I have inherited a netbook from a deceased relative. FINALLY got the password. Running Win7. My relative's name is the only user name and owners name on the computer. I would like to use it without being constantly reminded of him. Is it possible to change the main name without a total...

So, I recently began receiving this problem which disallows me (although I'm admin, and the only user account on the computer) from creating, moving, or accessing anything within the hard drive. I am also unable to download anything. I'm still able to access stuff outside of the hard drive, but...

So I've been trying to modify my hosts file for a while now. On and off because I was fed up with searching and trying different things then always ending up failing. So that is why I am posting on this forum, asking for help from you guys. So far I have tried: Unchecking Read-Only for...

Not sure this is the place to ask this question but here goes. What will the "Cloud" thing do to us Desktop and Laptop owners in the future? Will life go on as usual or will we incur additional cost for new computers, laptops and programs?

Problem When installing a program with a setup file from my data partition (E:\) or a (virtual) disk to C:\ I get error codes indicating installer cannot create files in the temp folder. When I then copy the setup file to anywhere on C:\ it runs and installs without any problem. So I can't...

I'm new to the forum. Saw all the great help that has been offered to people (though I haven't found a solution to my problem yet, as it seems to be VERY specific). While looking for solutions I seemed to come very close to finding someone with my exact problem, but not quite. Here goes: I...

Going back to my days on XP, I lost count of the number of times I went to rename a file only for it to disappear because I'd clicked Delete in the Context Menu instead. This set me on a mission to find out how to change the order of the context menu entries, eventually stumbling across the...

I bought my laptop a month ago and from 2 days appears that the copy of windows is not a genuine one...I'm so confused!!! What should I do?????:confused:

Hi all there, due to some circumstances I locked myself out of my c: drive. Actually the drive have two partitions c for the system and D for data. I locked myself on both out as a administrator. I tried several ways which were described in former posts but nothing worked. Isn`t there any other...

Hi guys, I cannot, for the life of me, delete any key in the HKLM hive. Things I've tried: Logging in as administrator Running an elevated regedit Setting Full Permissions to edit the key Taking ownership of the key Doing all of the above in regedt32 Running in safe mode Malwarebyte's Reg...

If your wondering why, its inconvenient to image drives across multiple computers because the only thing different about them is windows key, and if your restoring drives constantly it can be a real pain. So whats microsofts stance on this, if i have a valid licenses x computers can i just use a...

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...

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