user control

I am using Windows 7 Home Premium Edition in a Toshiba netbook. I created a folder on my desktop with a file in it. In Windows Explorer, I tried to move that folder into another folder that is in the Program Files folder. When I tried to do that, I received a message box, "You need to provide...

Hopefully someone here can help me. I'll start out with the system specs. I'm running a Mac Pro with a bootcamp partition and Windows 7. I was really starting to like Windows 7 until I got into the personalization of it. The previous partition was XP and I had no problem customizing the HUD as...

How do i get windows 7 to NOT install automatic drivers ? I am getting ready to do a clean install of windows 7, but i want to install my own drivers ! How do i make this possible ?

Walt Disney's internet subsidiary and several of its partners have been sued for allegedly using cookies based on Adobe's Flash Player to track highly personal information about their users, many of whom were minors. The LSOs, or locally shared objects are better known as Flash Cookies, and...

My problem is this: the administrator account on my computer is also the guest account, so it doesn't have all the priviliges it should, and because it's a guest account it cannot join a homegroup even if i log in with the administrator account, at the same time the other user accounts are not...

Hi I have a ReadyNas Duo which has been working fine on my old PC running XP. I have just installed a new PC with Win 7 and I am having all sorts of issues. I can see the NAS and access all of the folders and files. However, when I try and save them, I get 'Access Denied' messages. In...

A new piece of malware is capable of killing the Windows boot process, according to Microsoft. Win32/Yonsole.A is a backdoor Trojan, a term that defines a piece of malicious code designed to compromise computers and subsequently connect to a server controlled by the attacker, receive and execute...

Hello, For days now, I've been looking to solve an issue I'm having regarding the permission settings. It's driving me bonkers ! For whatever reason I simply cannot move a specific dll file, I then get the following message : "you require permissions from Everyone to make changes to this...

So in an effort to prohibit others from accessing my E: drive i denied all users how can i revert back to this so that I as an admin can get it back? Now before the screens i will let you know that i have tried everything from reg edit from what i know to enabling admin account in 7 i...

Not sure If I wrote the title of this discussion correctly. Let me try some other ways "What should my OS do for me?" "What do I expect from an OS?" "How involved with my everyday is my OS?" "My OS is trying to rule me" My basic argument (which may or may not be an argument) is that...

Microsoft launches Windows Fix-It tool MIcrosoft has launched a new self-support service for Windows XP and Vista users that relies on technology baked into Windows 7. The combination of desktop client and back-end service gives users of older versions of Windows some of the same functionality...

This has been a pet peeve of mine on Win7 ever since I upgraded months ago. I'm real big on using Windows Explorer to navigate around my drives, looking at files, photos, movies, whatever. There are two things that the folder list, on the left side of the screen, does differently from it's XP...

I know that you don't have admin rights with Windows 7 dispite being discribed as one, and being listed as one, and even have all the abilities. That's like being the CEO of a company, yet you have to ask the mail boys permission to do anything. I'm quite tired of answering 20 questions, I'm...

I'm unable to delete a user administrator account that was created by a program on Hiram's boot disk. The user account was created to delete a password on another administrator account. I can run 'control userpasswords2' and delete the account, I can delete the account the normal way in User...

Hi everyon! Im having some problems with the read-only attribute, I recently changed my HDD and I went from IDE to SATA, I moved all my info from one disk to the other, I installed Win7 and all seemed to work fine.. I started downloading some wallpapers by torrent and It started getting an error...

Is there a way to prevent items from automatically appearing in the Frequent list? All the various links I visit with IE are put into the frequent list, many of which I very rarely visit or will visit only one time. Thanks. Jack

Greetings everybody! This post shall be about the strange new networking policies introduced in Windows 7, expecially concerning the Network Location Awareness Service, which, at the moment, tries to make my life a fair bit more difficult than it needed to be. Let me introduce you to a...

I'm slowly but surely starting to enjoy this learning experience. And this forum is playing a good sized part in that. I'm a cranky little old man who has finally given up on XP Pro. I was never good at it-I'm still a novice-but I was able to deal with most problems on my own. Now I have W7 Pro...

Tunngle for LAN over web tunnel... Just come across this app Link Removed due to 404 Error Basically does much the same thing as Hamachi however...seems to work better for a few titles that wouldnt work at all over hamachi/LAN modes... At the minute its German as its still in beta, but seems...

Hello I have a desktop computer in which I installed windows 7 RC for a few days. That computer has two hard drives, so I keep my documents on the one without the OS. Some time later, I reinstalled windows XP, removing completely windows 7 (complete format). The thing is, when I tried to...