security settings

Hello everyone, I recently switched from windows xp pro to windows 7. I need to replace some files in the windows/system32/drivers directory but windows wont let me (i get an access denied notification). I am already at the administrator account. Is there a way to be able to do this? Is there...

Hi, My mother is abroad travelling with Win7 on her netbook, in the rented appartment she is in in India she gets the standard 'Server not found' message from Firefox after plugging in the Rj45 from the broadband modem. She says she encountered the same problem in a hotel in London and that...

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...

Hi - I'm really hoping someone can help me with this issue: Issue: IE8 has some weirdness that prevents me from clicking certain links in pages and getting them to open - usually it is for links that need to open new windows. If I go in the IE security settings and toggle protected...

Hello I wanna know if anyone knows how to get the Trustedinstaller permission, because i want to delete some files and folders of my system and it says that i need the Trsutedinstaller permission. Ok I right click and did some stuffs on the security tab to be the owner of the folder, in some...

Sure, I know I'm going to get a lot of static for this, but here goes anyway: Left and right panes of Explorer windows are not synchronized. The inevitable result will be (and has been) that people will press the Delete key on the wrong item. This is a major design flaw which causes the loss...

Hello i am new here PLZ HELP I am having issues with RDP externally EG: if i am at the office i can RDP in my servers locally with ease however i cannot remote out to a nother site, but if i use my co-workers machine i have no problems at all externally What i have done so far is: -checked...

I had a running network with XP being my main computer. After upgrading to Win 7 my shares are not accessible. There is one thing that I do on my home network I don't use any passwords for my user accounts. So if my main computer running vista has the main user/administrator called John, then I...

I’ve upgraded my Laptop from Vista to Windows 7 - all appears to be working OK except Internet Explorer 8. When I try to connect to the internet, IE displays the “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpageâ€Â￾ error – however Firefox has no problem connecting to the...

I have installed W7 Pro and set up two user accounts, I'll call them Admin and Zepe. The problem is that the files I've set up in the Zepe account can't be accessed from the Admin account. The UAC won't let me do anything with those files, i.e. move then or delete them and visa-versa. I have...

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...

Hello, I have created a useraccount via CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2 in windows 7 called SharedAccess, this will be for anyone attempting to login to my machine to try and view files etc etc. I have given it a standard User Account, however i want to remove the user from the login screen so i don't...

I installed W7 a few days ago but had problems so I reinstalled it today setting up the same user name as before. I had my My Documents folder on my D drive and set that up as it's new location. On my new installation that My Documents folder is only readable. If I try and add anything to it...

Greetings, I want to install XP mode on my machine except that I run into problems while installing it. I get this (it's in french). Roughly, it says: Impossible to create the virtual PC configuration. The user does not have sufficient access rights. Of course, I'm an admin on my machine, I...

Running a brand new alienware pc dual core 300mhz with 4 gigs of ram sli nivida 250 video cards.Just updated to Windows 7 home premium. The problem is when I go to websites like cnet or even microsoft to download a file the download window will open and just sit there and not download at all. I...

Hi, I'm having trouble changing the Security level. When I go to Internet Options> Security tab, box for "Sites" or "Custom Level" is greyed out and I cannot click on them. I searched all over the internet for the solution and didn't get anywhere. I realized that it might have something...

Ok so paid the full amount for home premium clean install of windows 7. I downloaded the three parts when i try to run them i get an "uploading the box" message when that finishes i get an error message saying that " We are unable to create or save new files in the folder in which this...

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...

Windows 7 Enterprise 90 day (64bit) A big improvement over 7 RC which would hang if I attempted any file sharing with my Ubuntu Samba share. However, now I can read my shares but can't write to a writeable share with guest access. I have added the cridetials 'guest' with no password and that...

Internet Explorer Tips: Open IE to a website in a new window from a shortcut I often create a shortcut on my desktop to websites that I'm checking frequently. I find this is a way to give specific websites a higher priority than just saving them to favorites then trying to find them from a...