security settings

I have read and followed a lot of posts to no avail. specifically I have followed the advice in "Share Files and Printers between Windows 7 and XP - How-To Geek" and "How to make Windows 7 work with older Windows versions for networking and file sharing" - both machines are in the same...

What is file permisions and how do I do it? What is taking ownership of a file or folder and how do I do it? I have Windows 7 64 bit buikt by me.

I installed Windows 7 Pro 64 bit this past weekend. I believe that Protected mode is supposed to be on by default. It isn't and no matter how I configure the security settings for IE8 I can't get it to turn on. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. J

Backstory: I have been using Win7 since 7000 beta and played with it and love it (I'd consider myself pretty PC-saavy). But I'm having a problem with homegroup sharing on two computers. I have a desktop running much like a server: having utorrent download (free and legal) torrents and...

In this presentation, we will discuss how to enable Parental Controls for a user. Enabling Parental Controls is pretty simple. What we want to do is go to the Start Menu under Windows 7, Control Panel, and we have an option under the Category View to Add or Remove User Accounts. At this time, we...

I'm a brand new Windows 7 user and very satisfied so far. I've created a Standard user account without password for use by visitors. I've already setup Parental Controls to limit access to programs. That seems to work well. My hard drive is divided into two partitions: C: and E: for OS/programs...

Hi! I was tired of not being able to save files in Program Files without starting the program [that saved files] manually as administrator. So I ran the command attrib -R "C:\program files" in the command prompt, and now Windows 7 seems to have reverted to some kind of default protection mode...

A little background and info: I support a number of people who for one reason or another need to be able to do things a local admin can do like install programs and start services (or more accurately allow a program they're running to start a service). All users are in the local administrators...

hello i use windows 7 file sharing on a LAN only " wired connection " and i don't want the sharing to be encrypted using either 128bit or 56bit encryption. how to disable it? there is no option in the network configuration menu. thanks

I'm hoping that one of you geniuses can stop me from having to take drastic action and reimage my brand new pc......heres the problem. (by the way, I have read, reread and read some more on how to fix it but to no avail.) I have a new PC running Win7 Home Premium. I also have an old laptop...

Hello! I am completely new in windows 7 and I come straight from XP, so I have no Vista and thus no administrator issues experience. I installed win7 ultimate 32bit. How can I disable all user accounts and leave only one (mine) as administrator? In my opinion this administrator thing is...

Why windows 7 firewall get automatically turned off? Every Time I Start the PC I found Windows fireis Off I Have to make in On Every time Is there Any Solution To Get out of This Problem I Have Installed QuickHeal Internet Security , and Not Installed Ouickheal Fire wall

Suddenly can't connect Windows 7 machines to server 2003 R2 standard ... Hi ... OK - Weird one. I've been running W7 since first beta and using the same server as long (Windows 2k3 R2 upto date patching). I have 3 W7 machines and two XP machines. About two weekes ago my server rebooted...

i have a problem for change the system permissions in windows 7 .First i right click the local dirve C and go to properties and click the tab (i.e) security and was change to set the permission deny for system in administrator user, so i cannot install the software in administrator.Actually i...

This question or a similar one has ben asked on here and other places but no one seems to have any idea. So this will probably go unsolved like many other windows 7 issues but here goes. I'm happy to award 8 internets to anyone who has any ideas about resolving this issue. Have a windows 7 pro...

Hi, I bought a new HP DV6 1330-SA laptop and received it today. I have been trying to connect it to my home network and share its internet connection. It says I am connected but with limited access. When I diagnose the problem I get the message "Your computer appears to be correctly...

I have just upgraded my HP Pavilion notebook to Windows 7. But when I try to download the iTunes program the Windows Internet Security block the process because of "Unknown publisher". I have tried through Tools>Internet Options to reduce the security level (Medium appears as low as it will...

Well ill be honest, im not the most tech savvy person around so bare with me. Ill keept it simple, i just bought windows 7 home premium, downloaded it from microsofts website. Everything seems to be working fine EXCEPT the fact that the only internet application that is being allowed to run is...

First you might need to know what my system is: I am running Win 7 Home Premium 64 Bit on an HP notebook with a T6600 processor. I have a few user accounts one of which contains my personal files.... I want to set some files as "Not Shared" but I can not find a way to do so. I tried...

Hi all...am new to this forum and from what I've seen so far, you folks seem to be doing great things for each other! So, I hope you'll be able to help me. I have a fairly old (about 3 years) HP machine - an xw4200 but I like it and it and when I ran the Windows 7 compatability check, it gave...