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After a sudden power loss forcing the computer into a hard shut down, the first thing I noticed was my UAC setting being reset from "Never notify" to the default. Since that has been changed, I think it's possible other things have been changed as well. Why would these settings change after a...

Here's the situation: I've got a 500GB hard drive that I copied a bunch of folders to from another hard drive. The drive basically suffered a failure while in a machine and I had to use some recovery software and another tool that I do not remember by name anymore (part of a google search...

Recently a bunch of programs in windows 7 keep have been asking for administrator permissions. I have an administrator account, and have the programs set to run as administrator. My user account control is set to only notify when a program makes changes, but it has always been this way. Why did...

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I want my Win7-Pro box to auto start (BIOS Power mgmt Time Set) and launch automated scheduled application. I had to disable UAC so it can start and run like my old XP. This works with one account and no password. I wanted full admin permissions so I created 2nd acct, super-admin with...

I don't now if this is the right community, but I hope that somebody can help me with the host of problems that recent upgrades have caused to my Win 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 installation on my Sony Vaio All-in-1 computer. I returned from a recent vacation to find a whole list of updates...

hi intro: few days back i have formatted my hdd and installed win7ultimate i'm only user on this pc. no password. not messing with accounts, rights. what i want to do: make new folder in Program Files folder and download to this folder by program TortoiseSVN other app from github. problem...

I recently installed windows 8.1 from 7 and the installation process was smooth and seemed to work just fine. However, once I shutdown and booted up again I got a blank screen right after the windows logo appeared. I can change the volume and brightness at the blank screen but not anything else...

My computer is not running any programs as administrator. I am logged in as Admin User but when I try to run a program as administrator, nothing happens even though the program itself will run. It was working fine when i turned on my computer for an hour or so, after that i noticed that none of...

Hello, I've been looking into this for some time but I was never able to find a clear answer. Is there a way to enable Metro apps when UAC is disabled?

I just can't figure this out: When I import/merge a .reg file (v5 format) manually by right-clicking the file in Explorer, it works perfectly. But if I try to import the very same .reg file in a batch file, it doesn't do anything! The .reg file is only changing keys under HKEY_USERS. Here's a...

Problem: Drag and Drop doesn't work in WIndows 7 Explorer. Whenever I try to drag an icon, the circle with a line through it always shows. I've read scores and scores of posts describing how to fix this issue, and I've found the following set of things to try. But I've tried every one of...

All my units run W7. I have an old ACT! 6 program which installs and works on all but one machine. When I try to install it on this machine I get the UAC then a 'working' orb for about 5-10 sec then nothing. I recently reinstalled W7 on this machine and have many programs installed. No error...

For the past few days, when booting my computer, the last startup action is UAC, showing the blue-yellow "OK" checked shield, asking for admin approval to run a file named "...AppData\local\temp\s3ms\Setup.exe /S". The file has no signature, and the folder/file doesn't show up on any search...

A demonstration on how to enhance or completely disable User Account Control notifications in Microsoft Windows 7. http://windows7forums.com/

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When starting Windows Live Mail, I get this msg ->initialization of RSS feed support failed. What needs changed to get rid of this? Also I have my "Alerts" set lowest in UAC but I still get a msg at the start of every program I start asking me if I want to start it. How can I set it so I can...