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I downloaded updates and after I did, whenever I am on a web page I WANT to send to a friend, I right-click and now it says Email with Windows Live. Before, when I right-clicked, it just said email page or link. It does not do that now. I've been told here on this forum that updates will NOT change your computer, but I beg to differ as this has certainly changed. Can someone explain this to me and also get me back to just right-clicking and it COMES up simply as email page or link?

Thanks so much in advance!

Debby
What Web Browser are you using?I'm using Exlorer 8 or 9 I think???
Quote from: debby on April 26, 2014, 04:45:06 PM

I'm using Exlorer 8 or 9 I think???

Good gracious, I'm using Explorer 9! I guess I should update to Explorer 11, huh?

I downloaded updates and after I did, whenever I am on a web page I want to send to a friend, I right-click and now it says Email with Windows Live. Before, when I right-clicked, it just said email page or link. It does not do that now. I've been told here on this forum that updates will NOT change your computer, but I beg to differ as this has certainly changed. Can someone explain this to me and also get me back to just right-clicking and it comes up simply as email page or link?

Hi so yesterday I got a new CUSTOM gaming pc, but it turns out I cannot download steam, connect to some MINECRAFT servers and play facebook games which REQUIRE internet. So when I TRY install steam it tells me that I am not online and needs to confirm my connection and retry I tried disabling my firewall and anti virus but still no solution. On my laptop I had no problem with any of these so I figure its a problem with this computer. After seeing that I cant join some minecraft servers and play facebook games which require online I realised this MIGHT have to do with something blocking my connection can anyone help me fix this?Did you setup your Network in Control Panel yet ? ?
what do you mean??If you havent setup a Network...yer gonna have connection issues...Here's a good starting point for troubleshooting network issues: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/troubleshoot-network-connection-problems

I have a new laptop (one month old), and I have just noticed that windows update has never worked. The laptop came with Windows 8 installed, but as it was a monstrosity, I downgraded to Windows 7.

If I try to manually check for updates I receive the error: In fact now the window just freezes when I OPEN windows udate.

I tried Microsoft's magic utility from their website to solve the problem but all it did was list the problems TWICE stating that the problems were both fixed and not fixed. All the correct services (ACCORDING to Microsoft) are running but I still get the error message.

Help!Quote from: Accessless on June 10, 2014, 10:24:27 AM

I have a new laptop (one month old), and I have just noticed that windows update has never worked. The laptop came with Windows 8 installed, but as it was a monstrosity, I downgraded to Windows 7.
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Hello all,
Am new to batch files. I am looking for a script to get all the details of a partculart folder. Below is an example.
1. I have an excel with list of folders inside a same director (Like: D:/Testing)
2. Inside D:/Testing there are 10 folders
3. So I need to get the details like author, comments, last modified, date created for all the listed folders in an excel or text file

Please help me!

Thanks,
AdithyaMetadata is what your looking into: http://superuser.com/questions/363278/is-there-a-way-to-get-file-metadata-from-the-command-lineI have gone THRU the link you have provided but I am not looking for the properties of a file or exe or application. I am searching for details of a whole folder. My requriement is to fill the comments available for a given list of folders in an excel. Please help!Sorry I mis UNDERSTOOD what you were trying to accomplish when I read #3 on your list.

The only tools I am aware of that can get folder info to the extent that you require are Windows based tapping into API's etc and not run from command prompt.

Karenware has this tool that is free to use. Its normally used for printing directory info, but I BELIEVE you can specify what info you want, target a directory or directory with sub directories in it and have it output all sorts of info along the lines you are looking for.

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp

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No more fumbling with My Computer or Windows Explorer, wishing you could print information about all your files. Karen's Directory Printer can print the name of every file on a drive, along with the file's size, date and time of last modification, and attributes (Read-Only, Hidden, System and Archive)! And now, the list of files can be sorted by name, size, date created, date last modified, or date of last access.

If I were to uninstal Windows Live Mail - would I lose all my emails? Is there a better mail program than WLM - and if I were to instal another program, could I import my emails?I believe uninstalling WLM will not remove your messages from your hard drive. Still, I suggest you backup your messages before you uninstall WLM. To locate your messages, see http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers-mail/148663-windows-7-emails-where-they-stored.html

Unless you have a specific reason to uninstall WLM and switch to some other email program, I suggest sticking with WLM. I used it for many MONTHS but have been using Microsoft Outlook 2007 for the last 6 months or so because I started using a Windows 8 LAPTOP for email and I installed my full Office 2007 package (Word, Excel, etc.) on the laptop.

If you do switch to another email program, you can probably import the WLM messages. Most email software provides import capability. Quote

Unless you have a specific reason to uninstall WLM and switch to some other email program, I suggest sticking with WLM. I used it for many months but have been using Microsoft Outlook 2007 for the last 6 months or so because I started using a Windows 8 laptop for email and I installed my full Office 2007 package (Word, Excel, etc.) on the laptop.

If you do switch to another email program, you can probably import the WLM messages. Most email software provides import capability.

Hello,



I have recently started experiencing this issue on my Windows 7 x64 HP notebook. I first experienced this with winrar. Whenever I try extracting from a rar, it gives me this error: This program is blocked by group policy. For more information, contact your system administrator. I then moved to 7zip and it works fine. I then downloaded utorrent, does not open, gives me the same error, no harm done. Now the issue is when I want to uninstall the program, it gives me a similar error and wont let me uninstall it. The error: You do not have SUFFICIENT access to uninstall uTorrent. Please contact your system administrator. I am the only user on this computer and it is not connected to a LAN network. I have tried USING Revo Uninstaller with no results. I also INSTALLED (and uninstalled) add gpedit. From: http://drudger.deviantart.com/art/Add-GPEDIT-msc-215792914.

I cant even find the program FILES for utorrent for me to delete. Please help!



I deleted the settings from %appdata%\utorrent

The second time I tried opening uTorrent my computer froze on me, no ctrl alt del results, no mouse, nothing had to force shut down frmo the power button.Was this computer ever joined to a corporate network, or bought used in which it may have been owned by a business in the past, and hasn't been rebuilt clean install of OS since?

To me it seems as though it inherrited a group policy that even when offline is active. This is common with computers that were joined to a network with group policies that are no longer connected to that network.I bought this from HP brand new. I did connect to a university network very often about a year back. I don't access that network any more.The university network must have added this GP to prevent problems from joined private systems. One thing you can try is create a new user account with admin privileges on this computer. Then log off your main account and log in as that new account. Then see if this problem remains. I have seen in the past where GP remnants remain in a user profile and creating a new clean user account which creates a new profile fixes the problem.

If this fixes this, then you simply copy over the info from your old profile to the new profile and continue to use the new profile. After you know that all important data was successfully moved you then can delete the old profile and just continue to run with this new profile/account.

If the problem doesnt go away then its a global GP in the registry. Fixing this would be easiest if you had the system recovery set to build the system back up to factory settings like the day you first turned it on out of the box, however you would want to back up your data to an external hard drive or USB flash drive before doing this to avoid loss of data. Some system recovery sets allow for you to perform a repair which will keep your data safe and will just install the OS clean again. If you use this route, I would still back up important data first... I never take chances with important data. I have lost data in the past by thinking nothing would go wrong with a repair system recovery VS a full clean install on an old Acer Pentium 200Mhz many years ago with Windows 95. Since then I play it safe with my data and suggest to others to do the same to avoid loss.The only way for you to bypass this issue is to create a user account with full access or reformat the laptop since you said it came from the university so some policies they have implemented on that machine are still working and security measures are still up and protecting the system.Thanks for both your replies, it was actually a very easy fix. A friend looked at some logs and quickly realized the GP was due to CryptoPrevent that I had installed on my computer. Whitelisting winrar or temporarily disabling cryptoprevent solved the issue. Thanks.Thanks for sharing the solution here in case anyone else ever runs into a similar issue they will now find this and say... Hey! I have that installed and maybe thats the problem and they may have a solution thanks to your follow up with the solution that you posted here.

Hello,

a few days ago i had to reinstall my windows VISTA because i had no internet access at all.
There's a dutch 'webcammmed' radio programme, that i cant watch since. When i go to the main site, and the programme archive, i cannot watch the items. INSTEAD i get a no access message.

I have VLC-player installed and it worked FINE prior to new installment of vista.
Any ideas what i could do?

The web site in question is this one:
http://www.obalive.nl/default.aspx?lIntEntityId=921


Vel, ach du liber!

I can't make it work either, probably because I don't read and understand 'Danish'.
Except for the danish I like to have with my morning coffee!

But the site comes up just fine.

I PLAY and watch whatever I like by adding the "K-Lite Codec Pack" to my Windows Media Player.
Any audio or video file plays just fine, without any special players.

Just a thought!

Shadow Thanks. It's worth a try.

Although i don't THINK it's a codec or player thing, because in that case i would have gotten a different error message.

My problem is that some users in our home can't ACCESS Firefox, or INTERNET explorer in their accounts on our computer. They have to go to my account to access it. I don't know how to FIX it and have tried what little I know to do. EVERYTHING was fine for a year or so then one DAY about 6 months ago it just happened. We have Vista as our OS. I use Firefox. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.Just a thought.........

Log on as the 'other' user and Install the latest version of Firefox from there.
Then try it again.

Shadow I have. It didn't work. Good idea though.

Do I NEED the RAID Utility and Driver?

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_dtlView.jsp?soid=1192841

This is something I also found and its states my prob. but it tells me for the Toshiba RAID Driver / SERIAL ATA Driver package.Download the RAID driver for XP, copy it to a floppy and you should be set.
thanks it worked perfect...now im just TRYING to decide if i should upgrade to vista or stay with Win XP PC TabletYou may want to CHECK first if that machine will run Vista...yes the machine will run vista it orginally had Windows Vista BusinessAnd you want to go back to it ? ?
I'm slightly confused here...why does it have XP on it now ? ?
What are you looking for from Vista that XP doesn't have ? ?
Since it's a tablet you may be taking a performance hit with Vista.

can someone please refresh my brain and tell me how i get to my start up menu in windows millenium
thank u very muchWhat exactly do you mean by start up menu? Do you mean a login screen, or the "Start" menu?oops sry the place u go to change what opens on start up
thank UIF I'm remembering CORRECTLY, Windows ME is the same as XP and multiple others for that items that open at start.

just go to start --> programs --> startup

Drop any shortcuts you want to run at startup in there.If it is the same as 98se, hold down the Windows key down, tap the R key and let both go(or go to Start>Run), and type msconfig and hit enter. Select Selective Startup up and hit the Startup tab up top. Then deselect (uncheck) of the THINGS you know that are unneeded. Be careful about what you deselect.

You can also type C:\Windows StartMenu in the same Run command. Then look for the Startup folder. *note*
the above also works for vista and xp in case some guys wanted to know...
for vista, THOUGH you dont have run...just click on start and type msconfig on the little bar and press enter And if you want a better menu in Vista (or XP), especially if you like the classic mode (and have a lot of apps)., i found this FREEWARE to be a blessing
http://www.vistastartmenu.com/index.htmlQuote from: daniel1212 on January 24, 2008, 07:01:44 PM

And if you want a better menu in Vista (or XP), especially if you like the classic mode (and have a lot of apps)., i found this freeware to be a blessing
http://www.vistastartmenu.com/index.html

Vista Home Premium will no longer boot in normal mode on my HP Pavilion a6402.uk

When I boot VIA normal mode, it just stops on the boot screen after a few SECONDS of HDD activity, the bar just loops.

I can boot fine into Safe Mode and into Ubuntu (Which is INSTALLED via Wubi, so it's on a HDD file in the Windows partition).

I did a boot log of the normal boot, but it's too big to include in this message, so I have uploaded it here:
http://wyattsoft.webs.com/ntbtlog.txt

My system specification is:
MODEL: HP Pavilion a6402.uk
Mobo: MS-7525 (HP Name: Boston-GL6)
RAM: 2 x 1GB DDR2 SDRAM
HDD: 250GB (I think it's a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10)
Graphics: NVIDIA 9500GT 1GB
Windows: Vista Home Premium 32bit
Anti Virus: Kaspersky Internet Security 2009
Internet: AOL 2MB via PPPoE (NIC on-board mobo)

Before this happened I was defragmenting my HDD with JkDefrag. I forgot to exclude the Wubi file (which the MS Defrag API seems to have issues with defragmenting) and so the API freezes, which also has the effect of Windows can't shut down because it can't end the API. Therefore I have to HARD reboot the PC.

All help appreciated.

DanAfter restoring a registry backup (Before CCleaner cleaned up the registry) and doing a CHKDSK, it's working now.

I have this problem regarding on Voice Chat on Yahoo MESSENGER.. EVERYTIME i Enter on a room on YM the only thing that the crowd hear on me is my voice rather than that NOTHING else. I maximum my volume backgroud for them to hear but they didn't unfortunately.. i hope anyone can help me regarding this problem.

Thanks!
QUOTE from: coated_pill on January 23, 2008, 10:55:14 PM

Everytime i Enter on a room on YM the only thing that the crowd hear on me is my voice rather than that nothing else.

Just built a new machine (for gaming & office work) which i'll be setting up for dual boot with a copy of vista and xp.

So...
Hate to SOUND like a complete idiot, but in gaming terms why does EVERYONE i speak to recomend the 32bit windows vista/xp, surely the 64bit is better, is there no support from the majority of games, would none of them work if i put 64bit vista onto my machine?
And would there be any conflicts if i put 64bit vista and 32bit xp

64 bit Windows supports more RAM and offers potentially better performance.
However,a s the majority of programs are still 32 bit you will not see much difference in speed.
Drivers can be difficult to FIND and some programs don't work - I speak from experience.
However, if you check every driver and every program you want and make sure it is compatible, you could use XP or Vista X64 if you wanted.
There would be no conflicts from installing any combination of Vista or XP 32 or 64 bit as long as you INSTALLED them in order from oldest to newest, on a separate PARTITION for each.Much appreciated.If you want to run a 64 bit version of XP or Vista you need a machine that is 64 bit. This means your hardware will have to be 64 bit for you got the performance of a 64 bit OS.

You can run a 32 bit OS on another partition within the same machine.

My advice would be to pick one and go with it. If you want to game than stay with a 32 bit OS. It would be much easier in the long run to enjoy your games.

Hi guys i really need your help.

I downloaded a software trial for a program from a website. The program is a CAD program for fashion. However when i click the setup.exe option i get this message:

HARDLOCK.SYS version too old.

Then i click on ok which prompts this message:

The Win16 Subsystem was unable to enter Protected Mode, DOSX.EXE must be in your AUTOEXEC.NT and present in your PATH.

I looked AROUND and found that it might actually be a Windows NT program. Is that so? If it is, is there ANYWAY to get to work on vista by installing a patch for example or something?

Have tried changing compatibility mode in properties but didnt work.
Im running vista home edition 32 Bit.

Please help.

regards
Hi everyone,

Never mind, i got it to work. For anyones future reference or if anyone gets the same error message here is what I did.

For the error message
HARDLOCK.SYS version too old.

I got rid of it by downloading a new version of the hardlock driver. Oddly enough I found what I NEEDED in a website that provides software tools for the mining industry. Here is a link

http://www.rocscience.com/downloads/hardlock.asp.

To get rid of this message:

The Win16 Subsystem was unable to enter Protected Mode, DOSX.EXE must be in your AUTOEXEC.NT and present in your PATH.

All I had to do was DOWNLOAD new copies of the AUTOEXEC.NT and CONFIG.NT from here:

http://www.4shared.com/file/39996729/b3c6083/AUTOEXEC.html?s=1 and just search for the other files you might need.

Took me a while to figure out but for someone whos not computer savvy, i think I did good

I hope this will help anyone else in the future.

Regards
Thanks for adding the answer that's very cool.Quote from: smurfette2031 on May 21, 2009, 08:53:27 PM

All I had to do was download new copies of the AUTOEXEC.NT and CONFIG.NT from here:

I'm not 100% sure about this, but that could lead to problems in the near future...

Hello,
After switching from Vista to Xp, now when I USE my touch pad to scroll down, the screen scrolls in waves instead of a steady scroll.I can't figure out how to correct this, if anyone has any suggestions, I would be very appriciative.
My computer is a Compaq Presario f500.
Thanks From the DESKTOP click START>right-click My Computer>properties>Hardware TAB>Device Manager

click on the + sign next to Display Adapters, right-click on the item in the submenu, click UPDATE and SEE if Windows will find a better driver

Though it is by no means a major issue, i miss the Up button in Navigating folders. I am aware that you can hold down the Alt key and use the up or down arrow to so, but as one who does a lot of navigating between 4 partitions and many folders, I find the up button not only faster (esp. with my stiff fingers), but with it i can nuke the Navigation pane to allow for smaller Windows (the last size of which i find Vista forgets), which i often like in order to do place folders side by side. A 5.00 shareware app offers to restore it, but i would think someone could come up with a registry fix for that, or at enable least Alt and the mouse wheel to do it.

You may check THIS
Check plug-ins download, too.Broni, that is a real good addition, thanks! Gets the up button BACK and far more, but the page you sent me to is important to understand how to install it, plus experimentation.

Thank God for those that make it possible to customize, and for the ability to do so. I will send the Qtabs people a little donation.

While i am on the subject, as one that is looks for speed, i found a discontinued Copernic app called Winkey handy in hotkeying launching of folders and apps. http://freewarewiki.com/WinKey. And as i miss the ability to see folder sizes in Vista (via an add on), i found one called TREE size free that works on Vista, though not as handy http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

Another idea would be to make the Task Bar also more like the TABS in Firefox and be able to move them around, and it’s Colorful Tabs ext make each one a different color. And also to be able to Save Sessions. I only found that add-on, and I'm still in playing with it, stages, but it looks good.Doesn't the new way the path is displayed in the address bar eliminate the need for an "up" button?No, not entirely in function and certainly not in speed. For instance, opening up a sub folder in a folder in the 2nd HD; the down arrow farthest left (next to the >) lists Previous locations, the 2nd arrow lists My Computer and the Desktop folders; the 3rd arrow lists the folders in the drive i am in; sometimes a 4th arrow lists the sub folder of the folder i am in; the 5th arrow lists previous locations, including the Internet ones. To go immediately up to the next folder, i would have to click the third arrow, find the folder i want, and click on it, but if i want to go up higher than that drive means the first. All such options are useful, but just clicking on the up arrow is faster and more institutive.

You can use the navigation pane for navigating, but this means an even wider window, and as Vista does not ALWAYS remember Windows sizes after rebooting (remember each.. is checked), i prefer going without it.

Of course, if all i had was one partition on one drive, rather than 4 or more, or had little need to often navigate, then the speed of the up button may not be so desired, but it's no big deal anyway.

I'm running Vista on my COMPUTER and DUE to some problems I've been having, I wanted to check if all the files were in order. Accordingly, I did the Windows Vista Startup REPAIR thing off my CD's bootlist.

I get this error:

No OS Files Found on Disk

Repair action: Partition table repair

Result: Failed. Error code = ox490

Time taken = 4430 MS

Now, my Vista works. It is certainly INSTALLED. I tried running from the Vista RECOVERY section on my HD and even that gives this error. So there are OS files and they should be working.

What could be the cause of this? No one has any insight?

Could this mean that oen of the OS files is corrupted or something?It looks like bootloader is messed up.
Check here: http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Vista+Bootloader+from+the+DVD, especially step 3.

When a disk drive or a card reader will not function until you restart/reboot the computer, is there a way that is quicker than rebooting to get them going again? Also, what causes this and what can be done to prevent it from happening?Just a question out of the blue: Is this a Toshiba?This is a custom built computer but I have had it happen on Dells and HP as well.Are these USB devices? Would it not be easier to just stop/eject the device via the utility in the System Tray, unplug the device, PLUG it back in, and have the operating system redetect the device?Quote from: Aegis on April 16, 2009, 08:47:10 AM

Are these USB devices? Would it not be easier to just stop/eject the device via the utility in the System Tray, unplug the device, plug it back in, and have the operating system redetect the device?

Are they showing errors in device manager.......?

Are you doing anything in particular when these devices stop functioning?

My card reader never worked and I do have a Toshiba Laptop. You have me interested now Kpac!

Hey all, please excuse any breaches of etiquette. I'm new to posting in forums though I have been using computers for years and have recently started college for computer repair. Unfortunately I am not far enough along to deal with my current problem. I have a gateway laptop and I recently ran scannow because my computer has come to a crawl. It SAID I had corrupted windows files and to insert disk 2. Unfortunately for me I never made recovery disk (didn't know) and so I cant go that ROUTE. Some suggested I use their dell disk to do a basic repair of the operating system. I tried that and it wiped my old key out. Windows got me back in but now my system is crazy. DVD burner didnt work( updated drivers for it ) it says network resources unavailable ,surfs slow as all get out cant do 2 things at once. tried to do gateway driver update the file wont install just keeps locking up. Scannow said SOMETHING about bad dll cache files. My question is can I just download a dllcahe file from a computer with XE and delete mine and replace it with the new file? I'm hoping that will then allow the automatic driver update from gateway to work. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.Slow down a little

Does your computer have the restore cd or repair system? (All MAJOR brands of pc that I know of have eithre windows cd, restore cd, or restore system coming with computer when brand new which is provided by manufacturer)Thanks for answering, the computer is a laptop and did not come with discs, it has a partition with the recovery supossedly on it. however, system restore does not work, the back up is protected by pc angel and will not let me in. so I can not get to those files. My system is a gateway and has been overwritten with a dell disc. I tried /sfc scannow and it WANTS disc 2, I dont have that disc. Can I just replace the dll cache first and then go from there? I cant even down load microst updates because windows says theres a problem. I'm sure I have a corrupted registry and windows core files. I just want to replace the operating systm with the one backed up on the partition. I have heard that you can get the files through a DOS sytem and then copy them but I am not sure of how to go that route.
ThanksA Gateway machine that a Dell CD was used to recover and PC Angel software added to the mix ? ?
I'd suggest contacting Gateway for Recovery CD's and starting over completely...
But that's just me.

Others may have more ideas...Quote from: patio on May 22, 2009, 12:47:44 PM

A Gateway machine that a Dell CD was used to recover and PC Angel software added to the mix ? ?
I'd suggest contacting Gateway for Recovery CD's and starting over completely...
But that's just me.

Others may have more ideas...

My laptop with Vista Premium crashed two nights ago. This crash is different from previous crashes since it left a different pattern on my monitor after crashing, then I have ever seen before.
Right before this crash, my dial-up Internet connection (which I get through a WiFi router) was reset, so my chat program (XChat 2) was disconnected. I closed it, then opened it again. When I tried to connect to the Freenode server, the computer crashed! The program's list of servers was erased when I restarted the computer.
The following day, Vista crashed 4 or 5 times, and it has crashed 2 or 3 times ALREADY today. Sometimes when it crashed, I was not even at the computer. The only RUNNING programs most of the time IIRC were WMP, Task Manager, and Firefox.

Every time it has crashed, except once when the screen went blank, the monitor was frozen with this pattern:

The SMALL black lines in that screenshot are actually a repeated image. Once it was part of a game I was playing, and another time it was the minimize / restore / close buttons from the top-right of a window.

I have not installed any programs in about a week.
I thought about doing a System Restore, but apparently this feature was turned off so there are no restore points.
I went through the list of processes in Task Manager, but I do not see any new / evil ones listed.

Any suggestions to solve this?
Thanks. Can you access Safe Mode?Quote from: Broni on January 19, 2008, 04:44:07 PM

Can you access Safe Mode?

I have an OLDER laptop with a Pentium M 1.6 Ghz processor and I just upgraded from 2x 512 pc2700 333mhz DDR RAM to 2x1024 pc2700 333mhz DDR RAM. I am running VISTA Home Basic because my integrated graphics is only 128MB. With my current use I have virtual memory setup at to auto configure and its currently allocated 2339MB but recommends 3058MB. My Readyboost is setup on a USB 2.0 8GB Lexar Flashdrive and is setup at its max of 4090MB. When I am doing my typical computer activities my RAM is 50 Percent used (according to the Performance Monitor on my Windows Sidebar Application) but jumps up to MAYBE 70% on max software usage. In your guys PROFESSIONAL opinion should I adjust my virtual memory and configure it myself with values you would recommend and continue to use ReadyBoost or get rid of ReadyBoost and just use virtual memory. Should I not use either at all because my 2 GB of RAM are sufficient enough? Is readyboost better than virtual memory or are either of them faster than the other? Sorry to have so many questions but am really wanting to make this setup as best as possible because I use my computer often. Who doesn't want their computer running at optimum performance? I know I do! Thanks Guys for reading and any advice mould be awesome! Let me know if I did not provide any other Computer Specs you made need too. Thanks again for all your guys help and have a GREAT ONE!2 things i would try:

Get rid of Ready Boost and leave the other settings in place...see how performance is (my guess is it will be better)

2nd thing you can try is set the min and max # of Virtual memory to the same # such as 2048. You need to re-boot for changes to take effect...Is there a performance software that could monitor the differences between the 2 or because its virtual disk its coming directly from the internal HDD it should use the memory faster than going through USB 2.0 Flash Drive. I will definitely set the values of the min and max on my virtual memory the same, Should I do double what my RAM is of 2048 to 4096 virtual min/max or will it probably max out at 2048 because that how much physical RAM I have on the machine? Thanks again!2048 is plenty.
Is this an IDE drive or SATA ? ?
If IDE go to Device Manager and right click the primary/secondary IDE channels and right click them and select Properties...
Verify they have not dropped back into PIO mode...should be DMA or Ultra DMA if available...I do have a sata internal but I have an IDE under device manager and did check and its set ultra dma. I set virtual as 2048 as min and max as recommended and will REMOVE the usb flashdrive Readyboost. Thank you for the information. My internal hard drive accessing the memory has got to be faster than using a slower usb 2.0 drive as memory (readyboost) I would think....Thanx for the update...let us know.ALWAYS go for the virtual memory over the ready boost because the speed access of USB is much slower than the internal HDD. Now that I know I will always do that, only reason I would ever use readyboost is if I had virtual already maxed, my ram slots were full, and still not sitting at 50% usage at normal program usage. Thanks for the info. I would thank you again but cant within a 2 hour span.....

I had to run recovery on my laptop and it took me back to when it was bought,with
windows XP home pro edition w/sp2 and thats ok everything SEEMS to be working fine.
But before recovery i had xp pro edition /wsp2, now the QUESTION,
Is there a way to tell if XP pro is still on my laptop also?
because when I run defrag it shows 60% of my 70 gig hard drive is used up, and I have not added anything yet.

Any HELP would be greatly appreciatedQuote

windows XP home pro edition w/sp2

A while ago, I ended up GETTING an update for my Vista computer. It installed a temporary user file on my computer that I was logged into.

Upon noticing that all my usual files were gone, I located them and moved them into the temporary user file, not realizing that the temporary user had been created. Of course, upon the next start up, the temporary user file had been removed, along with all my files.

I have years of work and important documents on the computer, and I any backup I have is outdated and obsolete. You can imagine how much these files mean to me, so I was understandably upset.

Is there any way to recover these files? I would appreciate any and all help.Why would you store your most important files in a 'temporary' folder? I'ts temporary!!
Temporary is a term that denotes a finite period of time, with a defined beginning and an end.How did you create the temporary user ? ?
What folder was created in this temporary user profile ? ?
ALTHOUGH Vista can do some funky things from time to time it won't just randomly delete a User Profile without som e sort of prompting...
I'm afraid we are gonna need some more details on what exactly has transpired leading up to this dilemna.Quote from: Mulreay on MAY 08, 2009, 05:58:42 PM

Why would you store your most important files in a 'temporary' folder? I'ts temporary!!
Temporary is a term that denotes a finite period of time, with a defined beginning and an end.

How did you create the temporary user ? ?
What folder was created in this temporary user profile ? ?
Although Vista can do some funky things from time to time it won't just randomly delete a User Profile without som e sort of prompting...
I'm afraid we are gonna need some more details on what exactly has transpired leading up to this dilemna.

I hope someone can help me!

I'm about to install Windows XP Home, unattended. The entire CD is copied to a free partition on my hard disk, and I've prepared and added unattend.txt to the i386 folder.

Three questions:
1). All configurations I need are in unattend.txt (mainly determining various paths for Windows, Program Files and Documents and Settings). Is this all I need, or must I also add other files, like winnt.sif, winnt.bat, unattend.bat ? Or will unattend.txt be enough, considering it has all the features I want?

2). I can't seem to access my installation files directory using FreeDOS. The directory displays when I type the dir command. But I can't get into the folder. The directory is above the 137GB threshold; is this why I can't navigate to it? Anyone else experience this?

3). What is correct path after winnt.exe starts? is it [driveletter]:\installdirectory ? Or is it [driveletter]:\installdirectory\i386 ?

Thanks, I appreciate any replies!You will need to slipstream SP2 into the i386 folder first.
As far as the path statement youmay want to have a read Here...patio,

thanks for the link. I read some of the articles and finally got things started. Had to educate myself on the basics of DOS before doing anything meaningful though; hence the delay in replying.

Regarding FreeDOS, my installation files were in a folder named \WindowsXP, which is over 8 characters long; so I shortened the name and was able to access it. The 137gb limit wasn't the issue.

Incidentally, FreeDOS might be incomplete, in that it doesn't assign letters to NTFS partitions. Go figure. My target partition is NTFS, so FreeDOS skipped over it. That had me confused for a long time (I'm installing on multiple disks, so that added to the confusion). I ASSUME the Windows installer assigns C: to that partition, as per the usual ordering protocol, even though FreeDOS doesn't.

To launch the installer, I used the .bat file below. However, after it copies all my files to the C: drive, it tries to reboot (I think it does; it only happens when I'm not in the room) but can't find kernel according to the message---a typical message when no OS is installed.

Code: [Select]@rem SetupMgrTag
@echo off

echo -
echo - This is a batch script for unattended installation.
echo - It must be placed next to the i386 folder.
echo - Files winnt.exe and unattend.txt should reside in the i386 folder.
echo - If any files are moved from those respective locations, this script will need to be modified.
echo -
echo ===================
echo -
pause

set AnswerFile=.\i386\unattend.txt
set SetupFiles=.\i386

.\i386\winnt /t:C: /s:%SetupFiles% /u:%AnswerFile% /rx:.\i386\lang

Any ideas on why the installation process hangs at that point?`Thanks for any replies Do you have to use FreeDOS ? ?
I'd need to know exactly how you have this unattended CD assembled to advise further.
FreeDOS...or any other DOS shouldn't be needed if the CD is built properly.
Post back with some more details and we can go from there...Ok, it seems to work now!

I had parameter MsDosInitiated="0", but it needed to be MsDosInitiated="1". I'll post the installation script in a little while, so others can use it, but I want to make sure it works right first (I'm actually guiding my dad through this over the phone). Here are some answers for now...

Quote

Do you have to use FreeDOS ? ?

I'd need to know exactly how you have this unattended CD assembled to advise further.

DOS shouldn't be needed if the CD is built properly

For above-mentioned WindowsXP, I plan to switch boot order of disks after this is all done. I just hope it keeps track of the original drive letters. Confusing? I'll post back in a few hours.

I've probably managed to confuse you now by this point...

Whether you are installing from system files from another partition or from a CD i don't see where the drive letter hangup is...Windows should automatically assign the install partition as C:

The disks are available at bootdisk.com....you can use a WinME file.

Another option to consider is to start the partitions/disks out as FAT 32 and convert them after the installation.

Mid-April, my computer began doing the dreaded blue screen roughly 10 minutes after turning it on. It may be shorter or longer depending on the websites I visit (if I stay on facebook, it'll stay ALIVE for hours; if I try Stumbleupon, forget it.) I hadn't used my computer in about a week prior to the beginning of the problems.

Shortly before the errors occur, my computer will freeze. The errors on the screen are always 0x000000f4 or 0x00000077, with parameters that vary each time.
However, right when they started happening, I got errors on my screen that mentioned something about a partition? But they haven't happened since, and I'm not concerned about those.

I used a Windows hotfix for the 0x000000f4 error, but I found out it didn't work when I ran Avira Antivir in hopes of figuring out a solution to the 0x00000077 error. My computer blue screens with an 0x000000f4 error during a complete system scan when this file is showing on my screen:
c:\windows\$hf_mig$\kb958690\sp3qfe\win32k.sys

I'm using:
Windows XP, Media Center Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 3
Build 2600.xpsp.sp3.gdr.090206-1234
Dell XPS MXC051, Intel Pentium processor 1.73GHz, .99GB RAM
I also have a Seagate external hard drive with Kubuntu installed on it which I use on occasion.

I've tried:
Hotfix for 0x000000f4 errors from the Windows support site
Chkdsk utility (always freezes during stage 3)
Running antivirus/antispyware software
Giving it to my uncle who works for Microsoft (who couldn't fix it..)

If you need more info, then ask. I'm not entirely sure what you all need to know, even after reading the topic. I searched in the forums and found a problem similar to mine, but honestly, I don't have a full grasp on the way computers work, and the responses looked like gibberish to me.

Thanks for the help,
KarolineQuote

Chkdsk utility (always freezes during stage 3)

I just recently reformatted backing up all of my documents and such and I had totally forgot that I had USED the MICROSOFT Encryption which is in "properties, advanced, advanced attributes" and now all of my FILES are stuck on my external hard drive because every time i go to move them it says "You need permission to perform this action." All these files are of great importance so if anyone knows a solution letting me know would be greatly appreciated.

Info:
-Vista
-Custom Built
-Error msg is "You need permission to perform this action."
You Can Try This but if the files were TRULY encrypted i'm afraid you are out of luck...

I am trying to find the gadgets folder for window vista home premium 32bit. Currently when i go online to download a gadget, it is saving to my desktop. Where should i save it to? I have tried dragging it into the sidebar where the gadgets are, but no luck.You have to doubleclick on downloaded gadget to install it.BTW...It's located here:
%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\GadgetsThanks man, I'm going to have to buy a Windows Vista book. I like Vista, but its like finding my WAY round rooms in a mansion, including the wardrobes and DRAWS. All of a sudden i feel like a newbie Don't worry. I'm still learning Vista, too.Here Ya Go...

Only cause i'm in a particularily good mood today....
Nice, BOOKMARKED...Quote from: Broni on DECEMBER 16, 2007, 02:10:31 PM

Nice, bookmarked...

My computer has a fatal system error c000021a. It is a vista HP Pavilion and the warranty has expired all but a year ago. The system is a dull bus but is only two years old. I have been having this problem with the blue screen for about nine months now. The computer will just turn it's self off when ever now but before it was when we had downloaded a lot of updates. Now I have noticed that when I run a full computer scan it will not let the virus scan finish and than the computer shuts down, turns it's self off. I turn it on and get the microsoft screen than a black screen telling me that I can chose to fix the computer or run windows normal. I chose to fix it and a blue screen saying this appears:

{Fatal System Error} c000021a
The INITIAL session process or system process TERMINATED unexpectedly with a status of 0x00000000 (0xc0000001 0x0010034c) The system has been shut down.

After turning off the computer and turning it back on a couple of times I see ANOTHER blue screen that says dumping PHYSICAL memory! I then turn it off wait a while turn back on and the computer seems to fix it's self.Navigate to: C:\Windows\Minidump folder.
If you see any .dmp files, zip all of them, and attach zipped file to your next reply.
ok I have found all the dmp files but am unsure as to how to zip. Do you mean cut and past?Alright so I KNOW how to zip now and the .dmp files you asked for I have found there to be 35 and it dates back to 8-24-08 until now. Unfortunatly when I try to zip them a screen appears saying:

"File not found or no read permission"

There is very private information in these files is there anyway you can walk me through what I am looking for to repair my problem?

~GeeveThere is no private information in dmp files.

Now, we don't need 35 files. Zip only those from last couple of weeks.
In Vista, you may need to copy those files, you want to zip, paste them in some other folder, and then try to zip them.I was able to zip one of the dmp files but am having the most difficult time figuring out how to cut and past, drag and drop, copy and past no luck.Click on first dmp file.
Hold SHIFT, and click on last dmp file.
Now all dmp files are selected (highlighted).
Hold CTRL, and press C key.
Now, all dmp files have been copied.
Go to your desktop, click on any empty space.
Hold CTRL, and press V key.
Now you have all dmp files pasted on your desktop.

To zip a file(s)...
Download, and install 7-zip: http://www.7-zip.org/
Right click on a file, you want to zip.
Click 7-zip, then Add to archive.
Click on drop-down menu, next to Archive format, and select zip format.
Click OK.
You'll find zipped file (.zip extension) in the same folder as the original file.How do I get the one dmp file that is ziped on the message post?Under "Reply" window, click on "Additional options..." link.ok lets try this one

[attachment deleted by admin]Folder is empty.Try this one.

[attachment deleted by admin]Good, this time
Let me take a look.All errors are WINLOGON_FATAL_ERROR @ ntkrpamp.exe
Pretty unclear error, because there are number of possible reasons: infection, software conflict, system files corrupted, RAM problem.

Let's start with...

Download HijackThis:
http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/hijackthis/download
by clicking on Download HijackThis Installer
Install, and run it.
Post HijackTHis log.
Do NOT attempt to fix anything!

NOTE. If you're using Vista, right click on HijackThis, and click Run as AdministratorLogfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 9:51:44 AM, on 5/20/2009
Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT 6.00.1905)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe
C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe
C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe
C:\hp\support\hpsysdrv.exe
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\On-Screen OSD Indicator\OSD.exe
C:\WINDOWS\RtHDVCpl.exe
C:\Program Files\Charter High-Speed Security Suite\Common\FSM32.EXE
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jusched.exe
C:\Windows\System32\mobsync.exe
C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Matrix Storage Manager\IAAnotif.exe
C:\Program Files\HP\HP Software Update\hpwuSchd2.exe
C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe
C:\Program Files\Charter High-Speed Security Suite\FSGUI\fsguidll.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\rundll32.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Advisor\HPAdvisor.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmpnscfg.exe
C:\WINDOWS\ehome\ehtray.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe
C:\Windows\ehome\ehmsas.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\ONENOTEM.EXE
C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\soffice.exe
C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\soffice.bin
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Advisor\SSDK04.exe
C:\Program Files\Charter High-Speed Security Suite\FSGUI\scanwizard.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Program Files\Google\Google Toolbar\GoogleToolbarUser.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Toolbar\wltuser.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe
C:\Windows\system32\SearchFilterHost.exe

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = http://ie.redirect.hp.com/svs/rdr?TYPE=3&tp=iehome&locale=EN_US&c=71&bd=Pavilion&pf=desktop
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Search_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyOverride = *.local
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar,LinksFolderName =
R3 - URLSearchHook: Yahoo! Toolbar - {EF99BD32-C1FB-11D2-892F-0090271D4F88} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Companion\Installs\cpn0\yt.dll
O1 - Hosts: ::1 localhost
O2 - BHO: &Yahoo! Toolbar Helper - {02478D38-C3F9-4EFB-9B51-7695ECA05670} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Companion\Installs\cpn0\yt.dll
O2 - BHO: AcroIEHelperStub - {18DF081C-E8AD-4283-A596-FA578C2EBDC3} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX\AcroIEHelperShim.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {5C255C8A-E604-49b4-9D64-90988571CECB} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: Search Helper - {6EBF7485-159F-4bff-A14F-B9E3AAC4465B} - C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Search Enhancement Pack\Search Helper\SearchHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: Windows Live Sign-in Helper - {9030D464-4C02-4ABF-8ECC-5164760863C6} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WindowsLiveLogin.dll
O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Helper - {AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7} - C:\Program Files\Google\Google Toolbar\GoogleToolbar.dll
O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Notifier BHO - {AF69DE43-7D58-4638-B6FA-CE66B5AD205D} - C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier\5.1.1309.3572\swg.dll
O2 - BHO: Google Dictionary Compression sdch - {C84D72FE-E17D-4195-BB24-76C02E2E7C4E} - C:\Program Files\Google\Google Toolbar\Component\fastsearch_A8904FB862BD9564.dll
O2 - BHO: Java(tm) Plug-In 2 SSV Helper - {DBC80044-A445-435b-BC74-9C25C1C588A9} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jp2ssv.dll
O2 - BHO: Windows Live Toolbar Helper - {E15A8DC0-8516-42A1-81EA-DC94EC1ACF10} - C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Toolbar\wltcore.dll
O2 - BHO: SingleInstance Class - {FDAD4DA1-61A2-4FD8-9C17-86F7AC245081} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Companion\Installs\cpn0\YTSingleInstance.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Yahoo! Toolbar - {EF99BD32-C1FB-11D2-892F-0090271D4F88} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Companion\Installs\cpn0\yt.dll
O3 - Toolbar: &Windows Live Toolbar - {21FA44EF-376D-4D53-9B0F-8A89D3229068} - C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Toolbar\wltcore.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Google Toolbar - {2318C2B1-4965-11d4-9B18-009027A5CD4F} - C:\Program Files\Google\Google Toolbar\GoogleToolbar.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Windows Defender] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe -hide
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [hpsysdrv] c:\hp\support\hpsysdrv.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [OsdMaestro] "C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\On-Screen OSD Indicator\OSD.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [IgfxTray] C:\Windows\system32\igfxtray.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HotKeysCmds] C:\Windows\system32\hkcmd.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Persistence] C:\Windows\system32\igfxpers.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [RtHDVCpl] RtHDVCpl.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickFinder Scheduler] "C:\Program Files\WordPerfect Office X3\Programs\QFSCHD130.EXE"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [F-Secure Manager] "C:\Program Files\Charter High-Speed Security Suite\Common\FSM32.EXE" /splash
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [F-Secure TNB] "C:\Program Files\Charter High-Speed Security Suite\FSGUI\TNBUtil.exe" /CHECKALL /WAITFORSW
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Adobe Reader Speed Launcher] "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\Reader_sl.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jusched.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AppleSyncNotifier] C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleSyncNotifier.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [IAAnotif] "C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Matrix Storage Manager\Iaanotif.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [spoolsv] "C:\Windows\temp\spoolsv\spoolsv.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HP Software Update] C:\Program Files\HP\HP Software Update\HPWuSchd2.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTTask.exe" -atboottime
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [iTunesHelper] "C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HP Health Check Scheduler] c:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Health Check\HPHC_Scheduler.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\Windows\system32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvMediaCenter] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\Windows\system32\NvMcTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit
O4 - HKLM\..\RunOnce: [Launcher] %WINDIR%\SMINST\launcher.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Sidebar] C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe /autoRun
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [HPAdvisor] C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Advisor\HPAdvisor.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [WindowsWelcomeCenter] rundll32.exe oobefldr.dll,ShowWelcomeCenter
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [swg] C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier\GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [ehTray.exe] C:\Windows\ehome\ehTray.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [WMPNSCFG] C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\WMPNSCFG.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [msnmsgr] "C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe" /background
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-19\..\Run: [Sidebar] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /detectMem (User 'LOCAL SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-19\..\Run: [WindowsWelcomeCenter] rundll32.exe oobefldr.dll,ShowWelcomeCenter (User 'LOCAL SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-20\..\Run: [Sidebar] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /detectMem (User 'NETWORK SERVICE')
O4 - Startup: Adobe Media Player.lnk = C:\Program Files\Adobe Media Player\Adobe Media Player.exe
O4 - Startup: OneNote 2007 Screen Clipper and Launcher.lnk = C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\ONENOTEM.EXE
O4 - Startup: OpenOffice.org 3.0.lnk = C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\quickstart.exe
O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\EXCEL.EXE/3000
O8 - Extra context menu item: Open with WordPerfect - C:\Program Files\WordPerfect Office X3\Programs\WPLauncher.hta
O9 - Extra button: Parental... - {200DB664-75B5-47c0-8B45-A44ACCF73C00} - C:\Program Files\Charter High-Speed Security Suite\FSPC\fspcmsie.dll
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {200DB664-75B5-47c0-8B45-A44ACCF73F01} - C:\Program Files\Charter High-Speed Security Suite\FSPC\fspcmsie.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Parental... - {200DB664-75B5-47c0-8B45-A44ACCF73F01} - C:\Program Files\Charter High-Speed Security Suite\FSPC\fspcmsie.dll
O9 - Extra button: Blog This - {219C3416-8CB2-491a-A3C7-D9FCDDC9D600} - C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Writer\WriterBrowserExtension.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: &Blog This in Windows Live Writer - {219C3416-8CB2-491a-A3C7-D9FCDDC9D600} - C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Writer\WriterBrowserExtension.dll
O9 - Extra button: Send to OneNote - {2670000A-7350-4f3c-8081-5663EE0C6C49} - C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\ONBttnIE.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: S&end to OneNote - {2670000A-7350-4f3c-8081-5663EE0C6C49} - C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\ONBttnIE.dll
O9 - Extra button: Research - {92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263} - C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\REFIEBAR.DLL
O13 - Gopher Prefix:
O16 - DPF: {0CCA191D-13A6-4E29-B746-314DEE697D83} (Facebook Photo Uploader 5 Control) - http://upload.facebook.com/controls/2008.10.10_v5.5.8/FacebookPhotoUploader5.cab
O16 - DPF: {4F1E5B1A-2A80-42CA-8532-2D05CB959537} (MSN Photo Upload Tool) - http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w3/resources/VistaMSNPUplden-us.cab
O16 - DPF: {7FC1B346-83E6-4774-8D20-1A6B09B0E737} (Windows Live Photo Upload Control) - http://cid-44e14434e4f41237.spaces.live.com/PhotoUpload/VistaMsnPUplden-us.cab
O18 - Filter: x-sdch - {B1759355-3EEC-4C1E-B0F1-B719FE26E377} - C:\Program Files\Google\Google Toolbar\Component\fastsearch_A8904FB862BD9564.dll
O23 - Service: Apple Mobile Device - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
O23 - Service: Bonjour Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Lic NetConnect service (CLTNetCnService) - Unknown owner - c:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSvcHst.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: FSGKHS (F-Secure Gatekeeper Handler Starter) - F-Secure Corporation - C:\Program Files\Charter High-Speed Security Suite\Anti-Virus\fsgk32st.exe
O23 - Service: F-Secure Automatic Update Agent (FSAUA) - F-Secure Corporation - C:\Program Files\Charter High-Speed Security Suite\FSAUA\program\fsaua.exe
O23 - Service: F-Secure Anti-Virus Firewall Daemon (FSDFWD) - F-Secure Corporation - C:\Program Files\Charter High-Speed Security Suite\FWES\Program\fsdfwd.exe
O23 - Service: FSMA - F-Secure Corporation - C:\Program Files\Charter High-Speed Security Suite\Common\FSMA32.EXE
O23 - Service: F-Secure ORSP Client (FSORSPClient) - F-Secure Corporation - C:\Program Files\Charter High-Speed Security Suite\ORSP Client\fsorsp.exe
O23 - Service: Google Software Updater (gusvc) - Google - C:\Program Files\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe
O23 - Service: HP Health Check Service - Hewlett-Packard - c:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Health Check\hphc_service.exe
O23 - Service: Intel(R) Matrix Storage Event Monitor (IAANTMON) - Intel Corporation - C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Matrix Storage Manager\Iaantmon.exe
O23 - Service: InstallDriver Table Manager (IDriverT) - Macrovision Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Driver\11\Intel 32\IDriverT.exe
O23 - Service: iPod Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe
O23 - Service: LightScribeService Direct Disc Labeling Service (LightScribeService) - Hewlett-Packard Company - c:\Program Files\Common Files\LightScribe\LSSrvc.exe
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (nvsvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\Windows\system32\nvvsvc.exe
O23 - Service: ProtexisLicensing - Unknown owner - c:\Windows\system32\PSIService.exe
O23 - Service: RoxMediaDB9 - Sonic Solutions - c:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\9.0\SharedCOM\RoxMediaDB9.exe
O23 - Service: stllssvr - MicroVision Development, Inc. - c:\Program Files\Common Files\SureThing Shared\stllssvr.exe
O23 - Service: Yahoo! Updater (YahooAUService) - Yahoo! Inc. - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\SoftwareUpdate\YahooAUService.exe

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I have a laptop with Vista 64 bit, once I start my computer it is missing icons and start menu. I hit CtlL,ALT,DEL and GET into the task manager. I open new task end enter explorer and all of a sudden all icons and start menu appear.

But once i reboot computer it goes back to no start menu or icons.

Thanks for helpOk, so have you had any hardware/software CHANGES recently? Installed anything? removed anything?YES before that it was on a external monitor plasma screen and i had all desktop on external screen. I was not using laptop screen.Hmmm I dont think that that would have done anything... Any software changes though? Also, the other thing you could try is that perhaps your computer is still using the screen you have hooked up now as the extended desktop perhaps? Right click the desktop and go to personalize>>>>>>display settings. Which numbered monitor is a solid color?No software changes, monitor solid color is 1.On that same screen, is the "this is my main monitor" ticked for the #1 screen?Yes.Okay, ONE LAST question before we try something else. Is the #2 screen a solid color as well? IF not, I have something else you can try.No.Okay, let's try this:

open registry (menu Start -> run (or run Comand prompt): regedit).

open: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ Current
Version \ Winlogon

At right pane there is the "Shell". The value of it should be "explorer.exe"Ok I will try and will advise, thanks for your help.

You're very WELCOME

I have been trying to fix a new dell inspiron laptop with windows vista that was purchased in june 2007. To my knowledge the owner has not done anything that would have given her a virus or anything of that NATURE, THOUGH she did say she always is connected to the internet and leaves her computer on all the time. She was trying to rip one of her cds one evening into WMP but she had to try like 5 times to get it to work. It worked fine the morning after, but when she came back later that afternoon it was a black unresponsive screen. I have tried repeatedly to boot up safe mode to use system restore but after I SELECT safe mode the "loading windows files please wait" shows up. After a few minutes the green vista loading bar appears and then a few minutes later the screen just goes black. I have waited about 30 minutes with the black screen and nothing happens. At the initial dell boot screen I have pressed F12 and ran the extensive diagnostic test and the only errors that appeared were 5 or 6 bad sectors in the hard drive. We don't have the back up disks on hand, so is there anything I can do to fix it?Quote

the only errors that appeared were 5 or 6 bad sectors in the hard drive

in the meantime RMA the other drive to Dell and when the replacement arrives hook it up as a slave and use it for extra storage...

I have the following user accounts created in my PC.
A ( admin account )
B ( limited account )

I have created the B ( limited ) account for security purpose.

Issue : I can access all the programs ( Start > All Programs ) in the A account but,

some of the installed programs are not listed and not running in B.

Following applications are not listed.

1.Ccleaner

2.Vista inspirat brico pack ( vista visualisation for xp ). It is not working in B account.

...etc

Could you suggest me a solution for this?


The B user does not have a HIGH enough LEVEL to RUN programs that alter the system. Promote B to a higher level. Or crate a new account for that user.I have created the B ( limited ) account to secure from the Internet threats.

One of the MVP agent has suggested me to USE the limited account while use internet to secure from threats.

I have installed windows vista OS, and its taking too much time for login and shutdown, I have 1 gb ram, nortan 2007 antivirus installed.
so guide me how can i increase speed in windows vista os.If you installed Vista Premium add another gig of ram.Dumping Norton would probably be an improvement. I'll suggest AVG Free as a replacement, if this computer is for personal use. You can get it at http://free.grisoft.com/I have Vista HB on a Dell 520 with a dual core 3.08ghz cpu with 1.5 ram, and it is slower to boot or shutdown and less responsive in some basic tasks than XP (on the same machine), or even my old W/98se with a 650mhz cpu. But it is overall the most stable OS yet.

You definitely need more memory, and even though i only have home basic i could use 2gb of total ram. NewEgg has 1gb of DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) for about 25.00 with S+H.

You want to EXAMINE what is set to load with Windows. Go to Start>RUN, TYPE msconfig and hit Start up and find what is checked. You can move the column sizes from the top if needed. Programs like MS Office do not need to load with Windows, among other things. Do a Google type search of all entries so you know what is running, and besides deselecting unnecessary programs , you should then be able to check the LIST periodically to see what has been added secretly (from ITunes, etc. to malware). A freeware programs called WinPatrol is a help in alerting you to this. And an programs like StartUp list can GIVE you a list of things that load with Windows http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/system/fwstartup.html

Other tweaks that i have found helpful include disabling unnecessary services (Start>Run (or Windows key + R), type services.msc and hit Enter) as this guide shows: http://www.speedyvista.com/services.html You may want to create a restore point first. (Start>Run rstrui.exe)

And by going to System Properties (hold down the Windows key and hit the Pause/Break key) and choosing Advanced System Settings>Advanced>Performance, you can deselect things like Fade Out menus, etc. You can also access the System Restore functions by hitting System Protection rather than Advanced in System Properties

I also found TweakVI (freeware) useful in finding more tweaks, like speeding up menu response, and turn off extras etc. But you have to carefully consider all the options. http://www.softplatz.com/Soft/Utilities/Diagnostics-Optimizers/TweakVI-Basic.html

Hope this helps. Quote from: vasim0101 on January 18, 2008, 12:16:48 AM

I have installed windows vista OS, and its taking too much time for login and shutdown,

windows home vista basic sp1 32 bit
amd athlon 64 x2 dual core processor tk-53 1.0 gb ram ati radeon xpress series

shut's off quite frequently, especially watching video's full screen, this what i have on video,

Driver Packaging Version8.561-081201a1-072275C-ATI
Catalyst® Version08.12
ProviderATI Technologies Inc.
2D Driver Version7.01.01.849
2D Driver File Path/REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/Class/{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}/0000
Direct3D Version7.14.10.0630
OpenGL Version6.14.10.8304
Catalyst® Control Center Version2008.1201.1504.27008Primary Adapter
Graphics Card ManufacturerPowered by ATI
Graphics ChipsetATI Radeon Xpress Series
Device ID5975
Vendor1002

Subsystem ID01F5
Subsystem Vendor ID1028

Graphics Bus CapabilityPCI
Maximum Bus SettingPCI

BIOS Version008.050.058.002
BIOS Part NumberBK-ATI VER008.050I.058.002
BIOS Date2007/02/06

Memory Size319 MB
Memory TypeHyperMemory

Core Clock in MHz401 MHz
Memory Clock in MHz401 MHz



help would be nice thanks...markAn upgrade in memory would be a valid move.....Overheating?

Download, and install SpeedFan: http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php
Post your computer temperatures:



Provide processor info (hold Windows logo key, and hit Pause/Break key to find out).

Post two results, one when computer idle, second one when watching video.amd athlon(tm) 64 x2 dual core processor tk-53 1.70 ghz idle temp 181 fcorrection idle temp 149, the other temp was internet and maybe one or two apps open and no videoI need to know what are ALL temperatures listed.good NEWS....i took apart the computer and the vent's were partially blocked and the fan was covered as well, so i cleaned it all out and it dropped the temp down to 117 deg's idle, What did you use to clean the inside? Compressed air?trust me it's ok, i'm using it to talk with you and it has'nt overheated in 24 HOURS or shut down...i wanna say thanks , but do have a question bout the battery, it has a charge detector built in which say's full, but computer will not run unless plugged in and i get a window pop up ref to the charger cannot be identified..is it time to replace battery and the charger or something else maybe...thanks again for your helpoh on start up i get a screen ref the charger i have to click enter before it will finish booting...If you're referring to the message that says "Your charger's voltage/wattage cannot be determined. The computer will continue to operate, but at a reduced state of performance" or something similar, what that means is:

A. The charger needs replacing.
B. The motherboard needs replacing.

I had this exact problem several times, Dell laptops seem to be plagued with it. It has something to do with a faulty battery circuitry, I'm not really sure of the specifics. HOWEVER, basically either:

A. Your computer thinks the battery is full and won't charge it.
B. Your computer thinks it is dangerous to recharge the battery and refuses to do so.

I do suggest you always place your laptop on a flat surface to keep it well ventilated, and to always keep it clean of dust. This can ALSO happen from overheating (but it's unknown to me as to why the battery circuitry would fail.) If replacing the charger does not work, a Dell technician replaced my motherboard and the computer resumed normal operation.

If this is not your problem, please post the error message you are receiving on boot up so we can further diagnose the issue at hand.

I have an Acer Aspire which is running Vista Home Basic. When i GO to SWITCH it on the Startup reapir program runs amd i get a MESSAGE saying "Startup REPAIR cannot repair this computer automatically" I donnot have a windows DISC or a boot disc. Any ideas on how to get my laptop to work???Same thing in Safe Mode, Last Known Good Configuration?

Do you remember if your computer had an Intel or Atheros wireless CARD? You won't need both drivers, just one or the other.Installation order (as specified by Toshiba, edited by me to match your laptop and the drivers you're installing):

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1 DirectX V9.0c(SP2)
2 Chipset(Intel ICH6M) V7.1.0.1014
3 VGA(Ati M24C M26P) V8.162-050803a2-025751C

-=EITHER=-
4 Atheros 802.11ag/g Wireless LAN V4.1.2.71

-=OR=-
4 Intel Wireless Lan Driver 802.11 ag/g V9.0.4.217

5 Modem Driver(TOSHIBA / Agere)(1456VQL4B(INT-LF)) V2.1.51(SM2151ALD05)
6 Realtek-ALC250D Audio Driver V5.10.00.5870
7 Realtek-RTL8100CL 10/100Mbit Ethernet V5.621.304.2005
8 Touch Pad Driver (ALPS-KGDDET045A) V6.0.305.6
9 DVD-RAM Driver Software V5.0.1.8
10 TOSHIBA Accessibility V1.36.0.10C
11 TOSHIBA Assist V1.03.00
12 TOSHIBA H/W Setup Utility V1.36.0.6C
13 TOSHIBA Hotkey Utility V1.36.0.7C
14 TOSHIBA Power SAVER V1.36.0.1C
15 TOSHIBA Speech SYSTEM V1.00.2511
16 TOSHIBA Touch and Launch (Pad Touch) V1.2.9.0
17 TOSHIBA Touchpad ON/OFF Utility V1.36.0.4C
18 TOSHIBA User's Manual TBD
19 TOSHIBA Virtual Sound V1.01.01
20 TOSHIBA Zooming Utility (Smooth View) V1.36.0.2C
21 TI 5 in 1 Card Reader driver V2.0.0.1
22 Configfree V 5.70.09
23 CD/DVD Acoustic Silencer V1.00.008
24 PC Diagnostic Tool V3.1.4
25 SD Secure Module V1.0.2
26 SD Memory Card Format Utility V2.0.3.0

Hello, I've been having an unexpected problem recently.
I have 8GB of RAM and own Windows Vista x64. What happens when I start up the computer, my Physical Memory starts up with 6GB free; within 5 minutes, however, it goes down to about 6-10MBs of free memory. The memory seems to be transferred to the cache (Cached), with 6GB of cached memory and 6MBs free. This is only a recent problem! What in the world is being cached??? Something is terribly wrong and I don't know how to fix it. Is it a virus?
Thanks!It's all perfectly normal. Vista handles RAM in very different way, than previous Windows versions.
It'll cache almost all available RAM, making it ready to use. Cached doesn't mean used, it means "ready".
Vista says: "RAM not used\cached is WASTED RAM".
More info: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.htmlQuote from: Broni on May 21, 2009, 08:52:30 PM

It's all perfectly normal. Vista handles RAM in very different way, than previous Windows versions.
It'll cache almost all available RAM, making it ready to use. Cached doesn't mean used, it means "ready".
Vista says: "RAM not used\cached is wasted RAM".
More info: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html

Copying and pasting images seems to be malfunctioning in any image editing software

did you mean malfunctioning ....

copying and pasting images will not work regardless of the image editing software you using?

So basically you can't copy and paste images to any image editing software you have tested.

What is Adobe's exact error?
I don't use Photoshop, but I recall something like Adobe creating its own memory cache.
Define "malfunctioning".

We have windows vista and my wife has lost her password and can't log into her account. I can log into my account. Is there anyway to GET back into her account?http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/tp/passrecovery.htmI tried that website and couldn't get it to work for windows vista.Do you have Recovery CD?Yes I have a recovery cd but I dont want to lose all the INFORMATION on that account.Why not log on to your account, get into User Accounts and change her password there?

Alan <><

I am NOT a Vista expert Vista won't let you do that.

Hi everyone – I have a Vista headache! Vista Premium came installed on my replacement computer and I am having some real problems. The two primary issues I have not resolved: every time I ATTEMPT to open Outlook (full Outlook, not Express) I am prompted for my password. I always select “Save this Password”; have configured my account to automatically load the password and have TRIED not using any password. No matter what I do, every single time the download STOPS, asks for my password and then I have to restart Outlook in order to continue the download. My ISP – Comcast – claims this is not their issue, but something within Vista. I have configured their interface with my password information and this does show up when using their e-mail client. But, I hate their client since they pass through tons of SPAM and also make it really tough to send images [I send loads of images because of my work – writer/photographer].

The second issue: whenever I attempt to change the NAME of a file; delete a file; remove an application (using uninstall) or make any changes on the system, I receive a message stating I cannot do this because I do not have PERMISSION. No one uses this system but me. I am signed in as the administrator. There is only one account, mine as administrator. I do not password any accounts since no one but me uses this system.

Can someone, please, tell me what is going on and how to resolve these issues? Thank you for any help!

System specs:
Dell XPS 6301
Pentium(R) Core2 Duo
4 GB RAM
1TB HD
Windows Vista Premium
I can't help you with your first problem, because I'm not familiar enough with Outlook.

As for your second problem...
Enable real Administrator account: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/enable-the-hidden-administrator-account-on-windows-vista/, and see, if same thing happens.
Don't play with that account too much, because you don't want to mess it up.
Just test the issue, and disable it again.

I've had this happen before but don't remember how to fix it. I'm on Vista using Word 2003 and when typing my document today and it's also affecting Outlook email I'm getting odd symbols. For example if I type a QUESTION mark ? instead I get É

It started when I noticed my apostrophes were backwards. When I type don't instead I get don`t. Quotation marks are also backwards.

I've checked my language to make sure I'm still set for Amercian English and I am. It almost looks like I'm getting Spanish language symbols.

It appears that some sort of keyboard shortcuts have turned on and I don't know how to get them back and get my documents LOOKING normal again.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!The keyboard SETTINGS are in another area, I think.
You could be witting English but the keyboard could be on Spanish.
Look into regional settings.
This is how it looks in XP.

Thanks. I've got it figured out now. Apparently it is playing FRENCH, not Spanish. Ctrl + Shift + FN got rid of the antics and computer is back to writing normally.

My keyboard won't normally type when I start it up. I have to right click my computer, select manage, device manager, human interface devices, then uninstall my first USB human interface device (keyboard) that always has a yellow exclamation point on it, then restart my computer when it prompts me to. After this, I can type when I log back in, and the problem doesn't start up again until the next time I TURN the computer on again. this is driving me NUTS, please help me figure out the problem. I have tried other KEYBOARDS, same problem, and I don't know if this is important, but my Logitech keyboard has some extra buttons on it, like ones that open calculator and search menu, and those DO work, but all the normal letter keys like L don't.Please list the type of COMPTER you have...

Also what version BIOS

thanks
dell windows XPS 410, and how do I check the BIOS? I wasn't the one setting up the computer, don't really know where to find things.Look on the bottom of the keyboard, what's the model number listed there?Logitech Access Keyboard 600

M/N: Y-UQ85
P/N: 820-000025
PIN: SY709UK
Rating: 5V===100mAHave you installed the Logitech driver for it?

If not, go to this page, choose your OS (XP or Vista), download and install:
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/434/2996&cl=us,enOkay, downloaded 32bit, hope that works! thanks for the linkNo, it's still happening. Any other ideas?Have you loaded your motherboard chipset drivers?I've NEVER even been told what that means >.< care to enlighten me?posom2 .........
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Okay, downloaded 32bit, hope that works! thanks for the link

good day to all! i have a problem on my laptop i can't make visible the hidden FILES and even the protected operating system files. i try to make it visible by accessing it through folder option. Is there another way to make it visible?
my laptop spec.
windows xp, amd sempron 3500+(1.8 ghz, 512k L2 cache),512mb ram im using avg anti-virus but now im using esset nod 32 trial and ad-aware by lavasoft and ccleaner.

thanks in advance!open a command prompt, and type: ATTRIB -s -h c:\

hit enter and go to the directory where you are looking for the file, and SEE if it is there.

thanks BRO! but it said that FILE NOT FOUND what is it means? sorry, if you go to the command prompt type: attrib -h -s c:\directory\filename.XXX


but you will have to know the directory and file name you are trying to make appear

Don't put XXX for the file extension, use the file extension of the file you are trying to find, if there is a file extension


for example, if you want to make the ntldr file appear in the root directory of your harddrive C:\ you would type: attrib -s -h c:\ntldrThis is often a sign of an infection....

Download HijackThis:
http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/hijackthis/download
by clicking on Download HijackThis Installer
Install, and run it.
Post HijackTHis log.
Do NOT attempt to fix anything!

NOTE. If you're using Vista, right click on HijackThis, and click Run as Administratoryou could also try this: attrib -s -h c:\*.*

The astric followed by the dot and astric means that it will unhide all files on C:\, except maybe one or two Quote from: Broni on May 20, 2009, 08:10:32 PM

This is often a sign of an infection....

i am doing loads of revision notes at the moment, and when i highlight a word or piece of text and type what i want over it or press the backspace key, it doesnt delete. i have to highlight and press the delete key. it is amazing how much i actually use this function, so please help! thankyouAre we talking Microsoft Word here or what? And, which version of whatever it is you're talking about?SORRY, that was stupid! microsoft word, version 5.1. thanks!!!5.1? Is this the Dos version or the Mac version?
As far as I've been able to find out there's never been a version 5.1 for Windows.Quote

microsoft word, version 5.1

Microsoft Office Word 2003, Windows version 5.1

I am running Vista HB, and turned off UAC rather quickly after i received this new PC.. I am the only administrator, and am not on a network or suing share folders, and i am the only account listed under User Accounts. However, too often i am prevented from renaming a folder a program just made, or deleting it. I have a folder now made by WINDOWS Movie Maker which i recently made, on a second internal HD, which Vista tells me i cannot delete.

I am aware of a complicated procedure that i have used, which is not guaranteed to work. I usually just boot into XP and delete it no problem, or use a freeware utility called Unlocker which will do it upon rebooting.

But after using W/98 for years in very extensive internet use and having virtually no problems with viruses (one) or the like (thank God), i would just like to override the permissions entirely.


What method did you use to turn off UAC ? ?You can also force your profile into admin mode by using the Offline NT Password Editor which now supports vista, or use it to confirm that you are in fact an admin if the systems SAM.

I had a client a few months ago who got a real good DEAL on a computer from Staples, and when he got it home he had nothing but troubles with it. Since he bought it on clearance he could not return it. So he called me to check it out at $35 an hour. Immediately I found out that it was on clearance because it was the floor model and was sold at $400 for a $1000 computer. Staples so called didnt have the Admin password or wouldnt release it because they didnt want the password for all the floor systems leaking out. The client had an account that was a user account and not an admin account. I suggested that we blow everything away and start new off the restore CD, but what do you know, Staples didnt have that bundled with the computer. So I said ok, lets edit the SAM and force your profile to Administrator with a blank password. And after that I earned a quick $70 and he then had a good system at a fraction of the cost of a new computer.

This tool can be found here if you want to check it out... (( This is dangerous if you dont follow the directions and do soemthing abnormal during the process like shutdown before saving the edited SAM.))

You simply download and burn the ISO to a CD and then boot the computer off of this tool that will boot in a LIVE Linux mode and the tool will launch. You then select from the menu's that are presented to you.

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/That doesn't sound like a UAC, permissions or "limited account" issue. Daniel, you already hit upon the issue when you downloaded the "Unlocker" software.

A program will lock a file when it is in use. For instance, you can't move a file while it's being downloaded because it gets locked. If you load a movie into Windows Movie Maker you can't delete that file without first removing it from Movie Maker because it's locked. And if you try to delete a folder that has a locked file inside it, you get the same issue. MOST programs releas locked files once you close the program, but not always. You just need to make sure nothing's using that file anymore. If nothing running is using the file, and it's still saying it's in use or locked or whatever, then something might not have closed properly and you'll need to use your current methods to get rid of it.

As far as actual file permissions are concerned, they're built into the NT file system and cannot be disabled. You could always run Fat32 if you're that against it.First, i am pretty sure i went to Ctrl Pnl>Security>Other Settings and turned off the UAC there.

2. I have read about changing the SAM, and in fact i have that burned that app to a disk because i was going to mail it to a family that could not login. But as i reinstalled this OS from scratch soon after i received it, and did not add users or ANYTHING that is not strictly required, i do not know why i would not be the system administrator. From what i read not being able to modify/delete folders/files - even one's you have made - without jumping through a lot of hoops is a rather common issue. XP has never presented me with this problem.

I also have since used a reg file i first found thru the NeoWin forums called TakeOwn.reg, which when merged allows you to Shift R. click on a file and choose TakeOwn, and then you can delete it (Elevated privileges or something). http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t597175.html
Except that it does not always seem to work - i deleted some files and then they reappeared!

3. That WMM folder was just an example, and the Movie Maker was closed. And the REASON given for not being able to modify it was because of a lack of permissions. I am not knowledgeable enough about vista protocols or able to replicate this problem enough to get a fuller analysis of this issue, but was looking for a fix so that it does not happen anymore. Thanks for all your input.

Quote from: Broni on May 20, 2009, 11:40:01 PM

Trying to fix 3 weeks old computer would be highly un-wise.
If it's acting up now, what will happen 2, 6, 15 months from now, especially when the warranty is out.
I'd insist not on fixing it, but on replacing it.

You can give it a shot, but you may be having some hardware problems, and those are hard to detect through some computer forum.

Quote from: Broni on MAY 12, 2009, 07:00:28 PM

Have an hp pavilion tx1000 laptop running windows VISTA When I turn the laptop on, I see the leds light up and the FAN comes on for a while. But there is no display, no hp logo, no windows logo, nothing. What is the problem and can it be fixed?
try HITTING one of the functions KEYS at the top of the keyboard...like F10 or one of the other keys...... it could be that your FN key is set to TOGGLE the screen display when the right function key is pressed

I recently bought a HP PAVILION deskrop computer that had Vista Home Premium already installed. I have had nothing but problems with Vista and want to get rid of it. I have a XP Home Premium installation disc that I bought with my previous computer. Can I delete Vista and install XP on my computer and if so how do I do it.
The computer is a HP Pavilion a6040a with Intel PENTIUM D cpu dual core. 2Gb of memory and the hard drive is 320Gb 3g sata
glenafton...
Is Vista having problems, or is it just you dont like how it looks?

What you must realize is this:
Your Vista computer is from 2007. Windows XP, however, is from 2002. As you can imagine, there may be conflict problems. You will never be able to get the full potential out of your computer with XP, and some of your hardware might not work.

There is no way for me to give a yes/no answer to whether going to XP will work. Check your manufactures website and see if they have all of your drivers available in XP.

Other than that, what issues are you having with Vista? Zylasta,
MANY thanks for the reply.
Apart from the annoying "Are you sure" popups of vista I am having problems.
The latest was on Monady when the system shut down and I lost a lot of valuable photographs and word documents. The documents I can re-do but the photographs are lost as I have no replacements for them.
I also have problems with Vista not accepting programmes. The most notable is the for my Panasonic DMC-FZ50 camera. It will not accept it at all. As an alternative I purchased ACDSEE 9 but even that is not satisfactory.
The system shutting down has happened 4 times to my knowledge but this is the first time I have lost anything.
I have automatic updates running and I run AVG antivirus daily and once a week in safe modeFor the system shutting down part, it sounds like a hardware issue. Vista will not cause this. (I run a Vista computer, its flawless)

UAC (Those annoying popus) can be disabled. Hold down the WindowsKey + R, and type:
MSCONFIG
Go to the Tools tab, and find "Disable UAC", and click Launch.
Then, to take care of Windows SECURITY Center, click the popup it displays for more information, and then towards the lefthand bottom corner of the Security Center window, click "Change how Security Center Alerts Me"

As for your camera software, I dont know enough information for that...

But, like I SAID, degrading to XP will not solve sudden shutdown problems. That sounds like a hardware issue. Zylstra,
Many thanks for your help and advice. I will do as you advise and see how things work out.
glenafton

Installation file. I'll just go ahead and name all the files in the installation file. The only one that says .exe in it's properties tab is the file I mentioned above, "setup".

compress.dc_
mdata11.md_
mordor.wip
setup
setup.lst
setup1.ex_
setupkit.dl_
unwip.ex_
vbctl3d.vb_
vbrun300.dl_
ver.dl_
waves.wip

Right click on setup.exe, then Properties, then Compatibility tab.
CHANGE compatibility mode to Windows 95. OK your way out.
Double click on setup.exe to run it.
After the game is installed, you should see the game .exe file, most likely unwip.exe (what is the name of the game?)
Change game's .exe file compatibility to Windows 95, and try to run it.setup1.ex_ doesn't have a compatibility tab neither do any of the other files I listed, only the setup bootstrap blah blah blah one does. setup1.ex_ and all the other files except setup, say they OPEN with Windows Shell Common.

The game is Mordor 1.1 Depths of Dejenol.I just found the no install version online. Changing the compatibility still doesn't work. I get the same .

I guess I'll keep the file and wish I were playing IT. Almost as good.

can't swear can I? You all know what I really want to say.

DARN YOU VISTA!!!!Where did the game come from?

http://mordor.uni.cc/forum/Legal-status-and-availability-of-Mordor-11-t3674.html
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The full version of Mordor 1.1 is not available for download from this site, and members who don't want their wrists slapped in metaphorical internet irons (cursed ones which will cost you a few million gold to remove) will not provide links to any illegal "abandonware" or other site offering it.

You can obtain the game legally by buying it from Decklin at his Domain here.

Please stop asking where to obtain the game for free - it's not going to happen!

Can you post download link?
I'd like to see, if I can install it.

I have Vista Home Premium and Windows LIVE Mail. WLM will not download most emails from the ISP server. It seems to think they are spam. Even TEST MESSAGES I send to myself will not download.
In WLM tools/safety options/options tab I have no automatic filtering ticked but still mail is being filtered. How can I CHOOSE to RECEIVE all mail, including spam Deleting spam is easier than logging in to ISP

Thanks

David