uac

I originally had iTunes working on my computer and all the sudden I tried to open it up one day and windows 7 popped up with a message saying I do not have the privilages to access this program.??? I played with all of the settings to make myself (the one and only administrator) to have full...

Whenever I try some downloaded .exes I get an error saying 'error writing to temp location' or something similar. I've tried running them as admin, tried running them without UAC, and even tried to change the temp location from environment variables but it doesn't change. Is there any fix or...

I've just installed Windows 7 x64 Home Premium and it's a nightmare thanks to UAC. Things have finally come to a head now I've tried to delete a folder in Windows.Old only to be told I require permission from administrators. Things is, I'm the only user of this machine. I AM the administrator...

hello, i can't start any .net app, every time i get the normal error dialog that the program has found a problem and needs to be closed. i tried to uninstall all .net versions, and then reinstall the 3.5 .net setup, but when i double click the exe nothing happens. just the UAC dialog appears...

Issue with Windows 7 32/64 bit and Windows 2008 R2 environments Hi Friends, I am facing issue when I am trying of open OSK.EXE (On-Screen Keyboard) through ShellExecute() in both Windows 7 32/64 bit and Windows 2008 R2 environments. OSK is not getting popped up after executing the command. My...

GPU-33: Graphics Driver Installation Instructions for Microsoft Windows 7 Last Updated 1/13/2010 Article Number GPU-33 This article guides the user through a series of steps to install the ATI Catalyst™ driver under: Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Using the following ATI...

Hey guys I've been having trouble installing some programs and games onto my windows 7 home premium edition, Upon trying to install the game "Just Cause 2" i put the disk in my CD drive and it pops up asking me what do i want to do? and it says run autorun.exe and it starts, but once it starts...

I can not believe that Microsoft has managed to mess this up again! I have never been so annoyed with an OS in my life! I did a clean install of windows to a brand new drive on my pc. I have about 7 other drives hooked up to this thing, that all worked fine when I was running XP. Install...

Hello all, turning to you guys for help as Microshaft want to charge me for support! I am getting Error 2738 Could not access vbscript run time for custom action and cannot solve the problem by removing the registry key HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{B54F3741-5B07-11CF-A4B0-00AA004A55E8}...

Hello there! For some reason after upgraing my W7 RC to W7 Trial (i understand i'm not supposed to do that but the problem is interesting nevertheless) i got strange error: I can't elevate shortcuts. At all. If i right-click on a shortcut and select 'run as administrator' - nothing happens. If...

Hi all, I've got a dell studio xps 1350 laptop running win 7 ultimate. At home, I have a Verizon wireless modem that connects my simple home network together (not domain, just work group), which has three other XP machines /and a lap top connected to. I have no problem with the xp...

Brand new Dell system. WAV's moved from my old xp system and they worked fine there. What I do. 1. click start/control panel/personalization/sounds 2. Select the sounds tab 3. pick an event sound 4. select browse and browse to the WAV I want. Double click it and it shows as selected in the...

Hi everyone, ------------------------------------------------------ Edit: by the way it's my first time posting on these forums, so hello everyone, nice to meet you. Hopefully someday I can be on the other side of the support role for this OS ;). Thank-you in advance for reading my post and...

Hi I recently installed win 7 64 bit on my computer and it was fine to start and ran pretty fast but then installs suddenly started getting really slow, 20+ hours in some cases or just not working at all. Also worth nothing that I had to turn of UAC in safe mode as it stopped displaying the...

Hi, InstallShield One click installation does not work on Windows 7. When the user opens the installation url with IE 8, the following message is displayed : "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer?" After pressing "yes", error message is displayed "Setup...

I was having a problem upgrading from Adobe CS3 to CS4 so I downloaded and ran MS cleanup as suggested. The first thing I noticed was that half my desktop Icons were missing, the programs are there and work but all the icons that were in the \**\install\* dir were gone. The second thing I...

Hi, Ive pretty much exhausted every option to try and fix this and I hope someone here can help me. I have recently installed some windows 7 operating systems onto our company Domain. The Domain consists of primarily XP PCs and a few Vista Machines. On ALL the installations of Windows 7 the...

Not sure if this has been addressed fully on this forum but Ive been trying to delete previous windows files on various drives and running into a lot of problems. Now before somebody tells me to google this and search on it as there are many threads on this throughout, I have tried everything...

I've got Windows 7 Pro. This morning I installed Malware Bytes Antimalware. It opens when I boot the system but UAC apparently is stopping it from running in realtime. I have to double click the tray icon then allow it in UAC to get it to run realtime. How can I set UAC to allow this at startup...

With the introduction of Windows Vista, a new type of security feature was added to Windows called User Account Control. User Account Control prommpts the user any time a serious change may be made to the computer. If an application requires administrator privileges, or is even asked to run, a...