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  1. J

    Windows 8 Multiple PCs, same desktop? :(

    So between myself and my wife we have a laptop, desktop and soon to be second desktop in our home. The problem we have, is that since they are all logged in via one account, if I change the background on the desktop it also changes the background on her laptop, and vis versa. Now, while I am...
  2. J

    Windows 7 a real mess

    Well, my nephew dropped his laptop with win 7 (Dell) and their software/recovery stuff is cr*p (you don't get an actual windows disk when you buy the product - thanks Dell!) and it won't boot so I tried to help him recover gigs of music etc from the "bad disk". Using win 8.1 I was able to buy...
  3. S

    Windows 7 Cannot create My Documents folder on boot drive

    I purchased a SSD a few months ago and re-installed Windows 7 Home Premium on the new drive setting it up as a boot drive... I relocated my libraries to the original HHD since the SSD has only 120GB capacity... This has lead to some issues... All of which i managed to overcome until now. I...
  4. A

    Windows 8 "Add or Remove Programs" doesn´t work anymore (in Metro)

    Windows 8.1 Hi, I had an issue with the general user folder name, which was shown as "Alex_000". Although this was a cosmetic issue only, I wanted to change this to "Alex". I successfully managed this by changing about 50 entries in the registry (via regedit). So fine so good. Now I found...
  5. S

    Windows 7 Installed software is not being recognized under "All_Programs" from the start menu?!?!

    I'm in the IT department at my school and we have a room with about 12 computers that need CodeWarrior installed on them. I logged in as the administrator and installed this program which will make it available to all student accounts when a student logs in. However, later when I had a student...
  6. B

    Noob question about user profiles, networks, and servers

    I have a server running Win server 2008. There are 7 workstations running windows 7. The business software I use has its own database server function, I literally have to "turn on" the software's database by clicking an icon in my server's task bar. My network is a DOMAIN, but the software can...
  7. mrobaer

    Windows 7 Most applications do not run

    I noticed something off when in my system tray, hardly anything that should have been running on startup was not there. I tried to run some programs and received a bad parameter error of some sorts. However, when I select the option to "run as administrator" some programs will work. When I...
  8. WackWack

    Windows 7 RSA SecureID Application Issue (App-V)

    Hoping to get some help on an issue that I have been hard pressed to find a solution for. I have an end user that currently works in a department that utilizes an application called RSA SecureID that runs in App-V. This application allows for remote VPN access to the internal corporate network...
  9. O

    Windows 7 Dont run script IF

    I have an issue, i have just started a Windows 7 Migration Project and i was originally brought in to do GPO, now i have bene asked to do something else and i am a little stuck. Basically we still run Windows XP on most of our machines but will start migrating over to 7 soon. We run a batch...
  10. News

    Sharing 32 and 64-bit User Profiles

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  11. kjohnso5

    Windows 7 Roaming Keyboards

    We use roaming profiles, and we have an office that has machines with different keyboards. A user will log into his box and have the correct settings, but when he goes to one of the other boxes, his keyboard settings follow him. Is there a reason for this? Isn't the keyboard settings on the...
  12. News

    Roaming Profile may not work properly with 802.1x network

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  13. W

    Windows 7 Re-Creating a new User Account

    OK following on from my other thread "Catastrophe" I have a few more questions. I have read many threads on re-creating an account which, in nearly all cases, detailed the following; 1. Create a new account in the normal manner. 2. Login with the new account to create the files. 3. Copy...
  14. W

    Windows 7 How to Reinstall Windows 7 Without Losing Installed Programs After User Profiles Disk Crash

    I was running windows 7 with the system on one HD and all user profiles on another HD. However, my profiles disk crashed. I am using Acronis True Image 2011 and have successfully backed up and restored other partitions OK. However, despite Acronis successfully validating my backups it will...
  15. A

    Windows 7 Temporary profile persisting Problem

    Hi folks , well it has been a while :D ,, hope everyone is ok !! .. well i have 2 users on my Pc laptop , one is administrator with password ( for me) and the other is Guest ( for guests ) ... now ; usually the one who is using the guest profile can't access my data unless he has the...
  16. News

    Loaded user profiles cannot be unloaded after you run WMI queries for the Win32_StartupCommand class

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  17. A

    Managing Your Server's Boot Drive

    Came across this guide & FAQ which may be of some help to those running servers. CONTENTS: Introduction What's Too Small? But What About Upgrading? What To Move? Pagefile Exchange Databases SQL Databases Other Data Files Log Files Webs and Other IIS...
  18. ZMiDZ

    Windows 7 Outlook 2010 cannot open

    Hello, I'm running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and Microsoft Home and Office 2010. Everything was working fine yesterday, but when I came back to work today and attempted to open Outlook 2010, I instantly received a message saying: "Outlook failed to launch in safe mode. Do you want to...
  19. M

    Windows 7 lsass.exe erreros in Event Viewer

    Hi there, I have been having some issues with windows crashing and restarting recently. I think that I have that part of it fixed..... however there are still some error messages popping up in Event Viewer.... one of which revolves around lsass.exe Log Name: Application Source...
  20. S

    Windows 7 Failed to connect to a windows service-Group Policy Client Service...

    I have an HP Folio 13 running windows 7 x64. It is networked to a work domain. Upon logging in a message pops up stating " Failed to connect to a windows service. Windows could not connect to the Group Policy Client service. This problem prevents standard users from logging onto the system. As...
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