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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...