the characters i type don't match the ones that show up on the monitor. I tried checking the keyboard layout nothing wrong with it. when i type the A key i get SW! is my KEYBOARD broken? help please

I have just updated from XP professional to Vista Business. My Antivirus programme is AVG I am now unable to load resident shield - and cant find any help anywhere. Can someong please guide me where I should go. Thanks,Ian

Hello (reposting again since I got NO answers) I'm testing the ActiveX Installer Service (AxIS) and I'm not getting this to work correctly. I'm currently testing this on a Windows Vista Ultimate computer member of an Windows Server 2003 SP2 Active Directory domain. This is what I did: 1. Installed the ActiveX Installer Service on the Vista computer. 2. Configured to ActiveX Installer service...

After choosing to reformat my hard drive and do a clean reinstall of Vista, I've run into some strange problems with Vista security that I wasn't having before. First of all, When I installed Hotsync Manager (to sync with a Palm TX handheld), I find that every time I boot up I get a Windows message that some programs were blocked (in quick launch). I can go in and instruct the program to...

I cannot go to URLs in incoming emails as I get a message not possible due to restrictions in place on this computer. Refer to your system administrator. Please help

gotta new computer. Vista Home Premium. Always before I used Yenc32 to open yenc binaries. It no longer works. I get a "Could not execute yEnc32 to decode this file" message. It's a "HewlettPackard Media Center PC" I didn't get a Vista disk with the computer. I have an XP disk. I'm wondering... I know that Vista is a ram hog... I'm thinking that I would get a lot more bang out of 3+gigs of...

Every time I boot up my Vista Home Premium machine Windows Firewall is turned off. I have to manually turn it on EVERY time I boot up. It doesn't matter if the WIFI I'm using is set for "Public" or "Private". How do I change the Windows Firewall settings to turn on the firewall regardless of the type of WIFI connection I'm using?

I have a 3rd party ActiveX control I distribute with my software that fails to install on Windows Vista. When I install it from the browser, it prompts me to install, appears to have been successful, but the install fails silently. Using the MS ActiveX log utility, I can see it fails with an error: "Code Download Error: (hr = 80004005) Unspecified error". If I manually copy this ActiveX to the...

any views on how windows defender stacks up with other such programs?

I have written a short guide about how to backup BitLocker recovery keys to Active Directory, find out what you need at http://www.theexperienceblog.com/2007/10/21/backing-up-bitlocker-recovery-keys-to-active-directory/ Regards, Andreas ------------------------------------------------------------------ Blogging about the experiences with XP, Vista and Server 2008 www.theexperienceblog.com

After a recent death of my old machine I have upgraded to a new machine. During the process of transferring, somehow I have ended up with a 'box' in the upper left corner with "cancel" in it. It cannot be moved or deleted and does nothing that I can see when it is 'clicked' on. Additionally there is a task in the taskbar, that has the word "ZIP" (in red) and under it a blue paperclip (on...

I am new to Vista and am crippled by all of the security requirement. All of my startup programs are not working, and I am particularly concerned with AVG being blocked. When I bring up Windows Defender it is telling me that AVG is not yet classified. How do I get it classified so that it runs when I start the computer. Thank you for your help.

I think the only 2 Antivirus Software Products I Have A -Windows Defender 1.1.1505.0 -Kapersky Interne Security 6.0.6.621 In the past I have experience quite a few stability issues with Kapersky, this may be the worst yet. I had installed Kapersky Internet Security 7. Because, I had more stability issues with this upgrade, than the previous version, I downgraded to 6.0 Today I Got This...

I was reading the very much informative responces between David Bedee MSFT an Mr Arnold which I thought were very informative and interesting BUT when you are not at tech or computer savy about the inner workings of a PC it still leaves one in a quandre about there answers. It all sounded so technical and to the point. Windows firewall has been slammed because it protects only incoming. I DO...

I have Vista Home Premium and need to change one of the LAN Manager security settings to enable my X-Box Media Center to access shares on my Vista machine. I understand that I don't have secpol or gpedit, but I also understand that those apps just alter registry settings. Can someone here help me with what I need to tweak in the registry to do the following? In "Network Security: LAN Manager"...

I get frequent freezing caused by windows defender command line utility. the problem is with Mp Telemetry and the detail is below Problem signature Problem Event Name: MpTelemetry Problem Signature 01: 8024402c Problem Signature 02: EndSearch Problem Signature 03: Search Problem Signature 04: 1.1.1505.0 Problem Signature 05: MpSigDwn.dll

Which is better NORTON or AVG????? Now I dont know if any of you can answer, but VERIZON offers a FREE "package" Yahoo online protection.., I have used it on XP., is this NOW compatable with VISTA??? -- D J

I've recently switched to Vista (new laptop) and can't get my Brother laser printers to work from behind the Vista firewall. I've set an exception to let "File and Printer Sharing" pass through the firewall (as suggested on the Brother website), but no joy. Both my printers (5250DN at home and 1870N at office) work fine when I disable the firewall. Any idea what programs/ports I have to set...

my security centre has stopped and i dont know how to get it back on.

SCENoApplyLegayAuditPolicy is the registry Value that stored the value of the Security Policy Audit: Force Audit policy subcategory settings(Windows Vista or later) to override audit policy category settings There are 3 instances of this Registry value on a Vista machine. What do each of these correspond to? eg.Under 1. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet001\Control\Lsa 2....