system administration

  1. Explore the benefits of the Multiple Local Group Policy feature in Windows 7

    In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz explains how Multiple Local Group Policy works in Windows 7. Link Removed
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    Windows 7 Can't change user folder name to match changed user name

    When I tuned on my band new computer for the first time I created one user account for both myself and my wife. We then decided to create separate accounts for each of us. Creating my wife's separate account was easy. After she logged on for the first time a new home folder (under the User...
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    Windows 7 Access Control/Security Tab problems....

    Lets start by saying I currently want my other half dead. Really painfully dead. My MereMale decided to play with the access control/Security tabs (Windows 7) within my neatly partitioned and organised drives. He says it was to stop the kids from stuffing things up, oh the irony. Anyways he...
  4. Windows 7 Unable To DELETE ESET NOD32 Folder

    Hi & Hello people,How are you guys today?Im here because today im having some difficulties to delete the ESET NOD32 Anti Virus folder Located at C/Program Files/ESET After i UNINSTALL the anti virus,i noticed that the folder were still there then trying to manually delete it but failed.It...
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    Windows 7 Outlook 2003 mail problems

    I have Windows 7 and use Explorer, my mail is Outlook 2003. Here is my problem. If I click on a highlighted line, normally blue in color, I get a box that pops up with this message, " The operation had been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system...
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    Windows 7 User Account Disappearing from logon & control panel

    Ok, about two weeks ago I seemed to have gotten a virus that we believed to have been some how related to the google toolbar. We could not open the anti-virus, or do to much from my user account, but everything works fine on my moms user account, so she ran the anti-virus and what not. With no...
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    Windows 7 Custom dynamic link libraries are being loaded for every application?

    Not sure what is going on here, but the Event Viewer keeps telling me that "Custom dynamic link libraries are being loaded for every application. The system administrator should review the list of libraries to ensure they are related to trusted applications." What can I do to fix this?
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    Windows 7 New User Profile creation issue

    All, I support a large population users on XP. We are working on rolling out Win7 Pro to all users. We are not performing in-place upgrade but providing new machine to users ( new image and hardware). We have a standard image with few 3rd party software on the image. Issue: We have...
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    Windows 7 ubuntu 9.10 & windows 7

    hi all i have windows 7 ultimate on the same drive i have ubuntu 9.10 (i recommend trying ubuntu) the only problem i have is when im using ubuntu i have access to my windows files but when im using windows i cant get into ubuntu is there any way around this????? p.s you can get ubuntu free...
  10. Windows 7 Need to rename font file - what to do?

    For reasons I won't bore you with, I need to make the file C:\Windows\Fonts\msgothic.ttc unavailable for a while, so I want to temporarily rename it to msgothic.ttc.old. Anybody who's tried to rename an installed font file in Win7 could probably guess what happened: Then I discovered the...
  11. Windows 7 Net Send replacement

    I am running a medium-size Active Directory domain, based on Windows Server 2003. We are starting to introduce Windows 7 clients in the domain, and I need a way to make so that Windows 7 boxes can receive instant messages sent by the domain admin using the classic "net send" command. Since the...
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    Windows 7 Event ID 11 Wininit

    I got this last night and haven't found anything searching. In event viewer I have" Event ID 11 Wininit " and the following: "Custom dynamic link libraries are being loaded for every application. The system administrator should review the list of libraries to ensure they are related to...
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    Windows 7 windows 7 remote shutdown

    Hi, i want to remote shutdown my htpc pc (after backup via scheduled task). if I run the shutdown command i get C:\Users\toetie>shutdown -s -m \\toetie-htpc -t 0 toetie-htpc: Access is denied.(5) if I disable uac on my htpc it works ( but i don't want to disable it ) if I try to change the...
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    Windows 7 Nero 9

    Just wanted to share my experience with installing Nero on windows 7. My clean install of win7 has been severely corrupted by a store-bought version of Nero 9 which should have been safe. It isn't. The only version of Nero that will work with Windows 7 is 9.4.26. The store-bought version I...
  15. Windows 7 Print Management console could not create snap-in

    Hi there! Perhaps anyone any idea? I can't seem to get the print management snap-in to work for some reason? I tried installing/selecting all the administrative tools, but it doesn't help. I keep getting the message "MMC could not create the snap-in" when clicking print management. Thanks for...
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    Windows 7 How to become system ?

    I am sick of being restricted to some stupid actions such as as simple as deleting folders. sometimes some folders will not be deleted and it says i need administrative privileges to do so, but those folders are not in use or they dont have any executables running from inside or used by one or...
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    Windows 7 User Permissions; Ouch!

    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...
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    Windows 7 HELP Remove Vista and stay with 7

    hello to everyone, First of all i want to say thanks in advanced to any person who helps me with the problem I am about to present to your guys. I have two hard disk drive(not 1 with 2 partition), first HDD 55GB with Windows Vista Ultimate, and the second HDD 460GB it used to be empty. I...
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    Windows 7 Create A Windows 7 Image

    Morning All I'm looking for a little help, i have been asked to create an image on windows 7 that will be deployed through the company i work for, but installed at the suppliers end then shipped to the end user directly. I have created the image which is ready to go and will be using Ghost to...
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    Windows 7 Creating a Backup User on W7 ?

    Hi, I want to give another user (bkupuser1) the SeSecurityPrivilege like Administrator has. First I added the user in the Backup Operators group, using lusrmgr.msc program. However when I started a CMD prompt as the user and did: whoami /all I could see the privilege was not granted...