ownership

I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bits. I have all my photos in an external drive that I created in a Vista pc. I plugged it in my new Windows 7 pc and changed the ownership of all the files to me, since I knew otherwise I would have permission issues. But that did not help! Now in...

So my Desktop computer died and I pulled the HDD out of it to get files, but in order to do that I had to take ownership of them through Win7 on my laptop. Now if I were to plug that HDD back into the Computer, after I get it fixed (I think it's the Power supply unit or the motherboard) will it...

Hey guys, i'm having a real strange problem with Windows Desktop Gadgets on my Windows 7 Ultimate installation. Currently, every time I log in to Windows, or try to open the Gadgets program, it crashes. Yet, for some reason, when I install a gadget from Microsoft's gadget page, the gadget...

I have 3 drives - 1 with my previous XP on it, 1 with my new WIn 7 Pro and the 3rd with backup data. I'm trying (vainly) to copy the likes of Stationery and Building Blocks etc from my Office on XP over to my Office on Win 7 but it keeps telling me I need permission from the "owner" to do this...

Greetings, I'm currently in the process of building a Windows 7 image for my institution. I'm trying to implement a few registry hacks that we've standardly used at least as long as I've been here. All of the keys still exist, but here's the one weird thing: the administrators usergroup does...

Greetings, Installed Windows 7 PRO, no issues...downloaded and installed Remote Server Adminstration Tools for Windows 7 for the purpose of using tsmmc.msc to administer numerous W2K3 servers on our domain. Here is my problem.....Opened up Remote Desktops and began to add the various servers...

I just installed Windows7 Professional with 2 standard users. I wanted to restrict access to one user's documents from the other. I was successful in doing that but then later I deleted both users and user files. Now I can't access the restricted root directory even as Administrator. If I take...

When I rebooted my computer this AM a number of icons on the desktop had been replaced with the windows default icon used when Windows can't find the icon specified. Also, I could not access a number of root folders and the programs in them would not run from system calls as in the startup...

Ok, I have found many examples of this but every solution I have read doesn't work for me, I'll start at the top in what steps I have taken to the current situation. On installing Windows 7 it worked flawlessly, proceeded to install apps etc, that evening I turned off. On login the next day no...

I recently purchased an open-boxed Asus notebook which originally qualified for the Windows 7 Upgrade. However upon entering the notebook's serial # it seems it's already been registered for the upgrade by the previous owner. Am I now out of luck or do I still have some recourse for the...

Ccleaner gets recommended a lot and I've used it for quite a while with no problems until now. I was trying a different firewall and returned to the old one and ran the clean portion of Ccleanerof ver 2.23.999 after finishing. My PC is dual boot Vista/ Windows 7. When I booted into Windows 7...

hello. i am using windows 7 build 7100 and i am having some file access issues. i had an old dell laptop that i pulled the hard drive out of to get some files off of it. but to get to my documents on the old hdd that was using win xp sp1 i think, i had to take ownership of the hdd. but since...

So here's what's going on. I have just recently installed windows 7 for the third time now (following build updates ect). I have two hard drives in my computer, one labeled C:\ where windows 7 is installed and the other labeled D:\ which is the drive in question. When I try to copy a folder from...

Hi, Hope someone can help me. I've installed Windows 7 RC1. During the first bootup it attempted to measure performance but hung and I eventually had to manually reset the machine. After that it started up OK but whenever I try to run the experience rating it just hangs. I've also tried...

A friend of mine was going to install Win7 on a free partition of a hard drive. On the second hard drive he has three partition, where on the first one his XP was running. From XP he started the Win7 installation. I was installing Win7 by booting from DVD and following errors didn't occure on my...

Seemingly exactly the same problem as documented here, except I am experiencing it on the 64 bit version: Link Removed - Invalid URL The problem is that I am denied access to the local disk C:\ in which Windows, and everything else, is installed (i have no other partitions or hard disks)...

1. Open up Windows Explorer & Browse to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore. 2.Click on the most recently created XML file there(its something like this....2009-07-05 01.12.28.985 Formal.Assessment (Recent).WinSAT) & take ownership of the file 3.Open Wordpad from Start>All Program>...

I am hoping there is some small chance here. In anticipation for installing Windows 7 on my main drive I installed my new 1TB SATA drive as secondary under XP, formatted it and moved files to it. I had no problems accessing anything so I didn't think there would be any problem when I tried the...

I have been running build 7100 x86 for a while now. This morning it started announcing "access denied" to both my hard drives and all their partitions. I had not made any changes to settings of any kind recently nor installed any hardware or software recently. The only account on the PC is set...

Yo. So I had a trial of norton 360 installed on a computer with the windows 7 RC, and once the subscription ran out and I found that I hated norton 360, I uninstalled it. I THINK this is when my HDD became totally locked, because next time I rebooted I noticed I was denied access to the drive...