If I click a button on a website that downloads and opens a word document, the word document flashes and does not open. I found that if I turn off UAC this does not happen. My preference would be to change a setting that will fix this and leave UAC on. Please help!

On my PC's HDD I have some files encrypted. Used "folder encryption" that is in one of folder properties selected "Encrypt data..." Folder is shown in green in explorer respectively. In the beginning, when I copied any files from this folder to another location (e.g. USB HDD) files became automatically decrypted, i.e. I could read those files from USB HDD on any other PC. But now something...

How can i grant admin-rights to all my domain users that access vista machine's? For xp i used the restricted group policy, but that doesn't seem to work for vista. Tx N.

Yesterday I managed to infect my Vista Ultimate with a very virulent ( new?) strain of PC_AntiSpyware2010. The battle for control of my computer lasted 5 hours last evening, and a few more hours this morning. I finally threw in the towel today, and re-imaged my Vista partition with a backup (a bit old - but oh well). Thank goodness Acronis 10 came thru for me. The pucker factor was pretty...

How can i grant admin-rights to all my domain users that access vista machine's? For xp i used the restricted group policy, but that doesn't seem to work for vista. Tx N.

On my PC with Vista Basic I have 2 accounts, 1 being mine as Administrator & the other being for the kids. Both accounts have Password to enter them. In the kids account I go into Control PanelInternet OptionsContentParental Controls, however they show as being off and I can't click none of the options on left side to set them. Do I need to do this under my Admin. account or what? -- Thanks,...

Following the recent DDOS attacks against twitter, facebook and google from Microsoft Windows botnets isn't it time for Windows to be blocked from any Internet access? Microsoft Windows botnets also spew billions of SPAM email every day. Why should everyone suffer because Microsoft are unable to produce a secure operating system?

Greetings and Best wishes, This is my first post in this forum. I use Vista Home premium. my DEP setting is Turn on for all programs except those I select. My querry is-Whenever I go to the folder of a program in "Program Files" folder, I notice that it has numerous folders, and each of these folders have numerous .exe files. Moreover, it is not possible to "Batch Select" all the .exe files in a...

I've been running Vista for about a year. At various times I will open something and it seems that there are "boxes" with red x's and a description. I imagine it is a security thing. Is there someway to shut it off or am I better off leaving it alone. As an example, if I hit the start button and then "help and support" I will get these x's. Ed

Sometimes my Windows Vista (home premium) computer suddenly gives me the blue screen and tells me that it is "dumping physical memory" (as well as to run diagnostics). Then, it neither goes back to the normal mode nor restarts. So I am forced to manually shut down the computer (by pushing the power button for five seconds). Of course, I cannot run the diagnostics that the blue screen has...

I know secpol.msc doesn't exist in vista home. My question is, will it work if I copy from vista business to vista home edition. thanks

My daughter suddenly experiences: Windows Defender: "Error Code 0x800106ba Application failed to initialize" This is a fairly new machine (running Vista Home Premium) and it was delivered with McAfee virus protection installed. The initial McAfee license is about to expire so she renewed that license for a permanent licence today. There may of course be a connection here, but I fail to see...

I have been running Vista for a while and I cannot solve this problem. I will open something and get little boxes with red x's and a description. It is probably a security setting somewhere, but where? As an example if I hit the start button, then "help and support" I get boxes with little red x's. I am sorry if my description is too amateurish but that is what I am Ed

I have been running Vista for a while and I cannot solve this problem. I will open something and get little boxes with red x's and a description. It is probably a security setting somewhere, but where? As an example if I hit the start button, then "help and support" I get boxes with little red x's. I am sorry if my description is too amateurish but that is what I am Ed

I've been running Vista for about a year. At various times I will open something and it seems that there are "boxes" with red x's and a description. I imagine it is a security thing. Is there someway to shut it off or am I better off leaving it alone. As an example, if I hit the start button and then "help and support" I will get these x's. Ed

Hello everybody, I have a problem about NAV in my company about symantect, Please help me solute it. Many thanks Now our system using Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.2 client and server. NAV Server setup in to Window Sever 2003. And nearly all of client using windows XP. Untill now the symantec run ok, But now we have some client setup window vista ultimate. I setup Symantec AntiVirus...

Hi, If I try to copy file to %temp% using elevated command prompt I get "access denied".(UAC is on) What exactly is happening ? What part of UAC prevents writing there ? thanks Vilius

attachments from a specific computer email address (XP using Outlook) into another computer using windows mail (vista) are stripped. Same attachment from same specific computer using another email address (such as gmail)is received correctly. Also attachment sent from and to same vista computer are received ok. I cannot find which security switch may be causing the problem .... -- chico905

Hi, If I try to copy file to %temp% using elevated command prompt I get "access denied".(UAC is on) What exactly is happening ? What part of UAC prevents writing there ? thanks Vilius

I am considering uninstalling the 90-day Norton trial that came with my new Vista-equipped Toshiba laptop. I had AVG, the free one, on my XP machine, and have heard about Avast. I don't want to be more worried than I need to be about viruses; would the free version of AVG, or Avast Home Edition and, if necessary, the Windows Defender and/ or Firewall be enough, or more than enough, in place of...