my firend came over and gave me some music files from his external hard drive, however, he has awful taste in music and i want to delete the files! it says i need permission!? i assumed i would be able to delete it if i didnt want it! any way round this? (i have windows vista business) thankyou!! craigxx

Before I start running the web a message is displayed: «Do you want to install updateIU.exe?" What's this? How can I handle with this? Thanks from Portugal, -- Pedro Sousa Portugal

I have the latest Norton anti virus with firewall, spyware protection, and everything else. My question is, should I and how do I turn off all of the Vista security. I know how to disable the firewall(I don't need 2 running), but what about the rest of the stuff like defender etc? Thanks,

Hi Apologies for the crosspost... I've written a windows service (c# 2.0) that is used in my workplace to monitor application usage of our users. It basically gets a list of processes and associated window titles (if present) and logs these for management to refer to. Unfortunately it doesn't work on Vista! Well, it does, in that the .exe names are logged, but WindowTitles are not. Doing a...

For some reason, my Vista Enterprise system has reset permissions on a number of EXEs in the windows system32 dir and now I have to elevate to execute attrib.exe and subst.exe. This isn't the case on my home Vista Ultimate PC. What's even weirder is that when the perms get screwed up the properties dialog for that file looks like you are editing a .PIF file. It has a whole bunch of extra...

Is there a good parental control and monitoring application that works with AIM and is Vista compatible? Thanks . . . Steve

hi to all i was using following addresses in my hosts file they were working properly mean yahoo messenger was blocking this way but now these links dont work wheter they changed their servers or they changed the way yahoo messenger sign ins. kindly help me how can i block yahoo messenger through hosts file 127.0.0.1 messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php 127.0.0.1 ...

Been at this now for the last 4 hours problem how do i permit AVG and have my security centre recognise it windows secuity centre says not monitored i installed avg because its recomended and when i check my security centre it says the following virus protection Not Monitored Spyware and other malware not monitored when i click monitor now i get windows defender is turned off these...

I've got a program from a driver I installed (C:\windows\soundman.exe) that pops up a dialog every time I boot this limited account asking for permission to run. I've tried unchecking the permission settings, and unblocking the program--by right clicking it. Am I missing something here?

I have Excel VB code that saves a tiny ini file in the Windows Directory. Worked a treat on XP for years. It won't run on Vista because of the security permissions for the Windows folder. I can work around it for new files but all the hundreds of existing examples of my spreadsheet crash on opening on a Vista machine. I don't want to reprogram every instance - all I need is to save a tiny file in...

I bought my computer before 2 weeks ago. And, It said I have to register my anti-virus software "Macafee". But I coudn't register it. So, I removed this software. Then, security warning message comes out when I turn on the computer. I can't do anything. In Windows XP, I could change the option(not monitered) but I can change it in Windows Vista

I just bought a Dell computer with Windows Vista. It had McAfee a/v software pre-installed which reports to be working satisfactorily. But I keep getting an alert from the windows security center saying the computer is unprotected and no anti-virus software is loaded. Can I assume that the computer is protected as reported by McAfee, and is there any way to stop the annoying messages from...

Smiles everyone. Am running a solar-powered, rocket-propelled Windows Vista Home Basic operating system. Norton Internet Security 2007 pre-installed by OEM for my benefit. So Vista has DEP available for Vista but is off by default because of backwards compatibility I read. I put it up for awhile to protect essential Windows and for IE7 to "help mitigate against online attacks". Noticed...

Hello everyone, I'm seeking for a solution of unusual problem with Vista Ultimate 32. Storyline: Few days ago resinstalled my dual setup (Vista+XP) due to a necessity to re-mount my RAID0 setup. Vista installed well, + all updates including the optional ones. Problems started when I decided to update Intel's Chipset (INF

Hello all, We have a test web server (XP/IIS) at work, set up to accept connections on port 8080. All of our clients (XP and Mac OS) connects perfectly, except for the 4 vista laptops we have. All of them suffers the same fate: An endless wait for connection that never succeeds... (Waiting for connection...) Some keywords: All machines on the same subnet No domain / AD. Just plain workgroups...

Hi, I've got a Canon LBP5200 laser printer. Since getting a new PC with Vista Home loaded I've had problems with the printer. Got the correct driver from Canon installed and the printer works but takes forever to spool & start printing. Checked with Canon support and all the printer configuration settings are as they recommend - they couldn't recreate the problem but suggested a firewall...

In Windows Vista I enabled pagefile encryption with EFS (via secpol.msc - Public Key Policies - Encrypting File System - Properties - Enable pagefile encryption) and rebooted Windows but pagefile.sys is still black. Why doesn't it become green like my other EFS encrypted files? how can I be sure that it's encrypted?

When needed, I would like to be able to boot my pc so I have absolutely FULL adminstrator privileges, i.e. so I'm not questionned about the tasks I'd like to perform. Case in point: I would like to delete the "My Pictures" folder in "My Documents". "My Documents" is located on my D-partition. However, when I try to delete, I'm sometimes told I need Adminstrator rights or sometimes that I...

It is safe to say that the constant nagging of the UAC is unbearable... i have a mac too and it's a nuissance to have to put your whole password every now and then but it is nothing compared to Vista's UAC... So ... How safe is putting UAC in quiet mode? AND will the UAC nagging be fixed a little bit in SP1.

hello im going crazzy trying to get this virus...or spy ware stuff in check....i need help please can anyone tell me how i enable my spy ware