My OS: "WIndows Vista Business" Problem: I often lock my computer , and leave it . Now when I return it should ask for my password, But sometimes on pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del , it says me "Insert a smart card" and does not give any other option of entering a password. I do not have a smart card. So I reboot it and its all fine, But rebooting is very annoying, as I might loose my work because I do...

Hi, I have recently purchased a Samsung SGH-U600 mobile phone. The phonetools that come with the phone and the drivers on the software CD are not compatible with win Vista so I downloaded the appropriate software/drivers from the Samsung website. I loaded PC Studio 3 and installed the drivers. However, when I connected the phone via the data usb cable (supplied with the phone) I got a...

I am running Vista Business 64-bit. For some strange reasons I cannot add anything to System DSN tag in ODBC Administrator. I am getting "You are not logged on as administator" popup. Needless to say - I *am* logged on as member of Administrators group and I am running Data Sources (ODBC) from elevated command window and/or "Run As Administrator". I even logged on as "Administrator" - with...

Trying again, no replies 10 days after first post. More details this time. Vista Home Premium SP 2 current all updates, MS Works pre-installed. I have one administrative account used for software installs, updates, etc. and one non-admin account used for normal activity. When starting Works spreadsheet using the non-admin account Vista throws up the UAC challenge and requires the...

i am using Vista business SP1. I designed MSi file through Visual Studio 2008 Setup and deployment project in which I added one custom action. In the custom action, I am opening OpenFile dialog. This Open File dialog is not showing mapped drive or network locations. Can anybody help??? -- pandehrushikesh

I'm using VISTA and IE8. I "HAD" OWA working with s/mime. Something happened and now I can not sign my replies or send any signed emails. I've removed and reinstalled s/mime and still don't work. I get an error about not being able to remove certificates when I close. I also get and huge message when I try to send a signed message. I've run registry check and clean should I uninstall IE and...

Is there a way to limit how much time a user can be using the computer each day? I've got the parental controls set up to limit when, but I'd also like to limit how much of that time they can use. If not, are there any free, simple programs out there? Everything I find is much more than I need - controlling what the user does, managing the time the users can use the PC, etc. Thx!

On a whim I decided to configure my Vista start up programs (ie get rid of all the crap!) I went thru the control panel to 'performance info and tools', these open and stay open fine. When I click on 'Manage start up programs' it opens the window then quickly (maybe 1-2 seconds) closes itself. After clicking other windows to see if they would open or not I found that Window Defender does the...

im trying to run pcsx2 on my vista u-64 gateway and for some reason the run as admin(the only way to run it) on my shorcut is grayed out whats up with that -- daistheputrid

I did a Defender update today for my Vista and looked in history and see two of the same items mentioned on different scan dates (5/13/09 and 5/20/09). (Did an update and another scan today (5/25/09) and don't see anyhing new found in History. I just wonder what this 'system32' item could be relating to. Name = Unknown Alert Level = Unknown

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Hei, I have xp and Vista in same computer (hp 8510p) I updated xp wireless driver and bios and then when i´m try go vista side, it ask password for bitlocker, i have the password but it wont work?? pasword id have change somehow??? How i can bypass the bitlocker?

Hi, I have Vista Home Premium 64bit, I'm trying to install and run a BETA game I need to test, all goes fine until I try to run it, I get the message "Parental controls doesn't allow for this game to run". I have one account, as admin, no password and I already tried "run as admin" for the game but still the same. When I go to parental controls it tells me none are set as I'm an administrator, so...

I recently just took the hard drive out of my old laptop that ran xp and put it into an enclosure. I'm now trying to access the files on the hard drive from a vista machine and each time I want to do something with a file I have to change its permission. However I have a lot of files on the hard drive and going to properties to change the permission each time is a task that will take hours. I...

Vista includes a two-way firewall and an antispyware application (Windows Defender), but not an anti-virus application. Did a free-trial of Norton Internet Security (2009) come preinstalled on your computer when you bought it? -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002 JohnInTexas wrote:

Is there a way to set UAC to capture or log the entire command line of a program including all switches that is requesting elevation? I have an unknown potentially suspicious program that is requesting elevation and I am unable to see the entire command line or path to the binary to investigate it. To be safe, I have declined running the program, and briefly examined the Windows event logs...

You are seeing the effects of a hijackware infection, one that disabled the McAfee app and which didn't allow the Kaspersky app to install properly! NB: If your McAfee subscription had expired *when the machine first got infected* and/or your subscription has since expired and/or the machine's not been kept fully-patched at Windows Update, don't waste your time with any of the below: Format &...

Every couple hours Live OneCare's icon changes from green GOOD to yellow FAIR. It then reports the "PC problem needing fix" as a stalled printer queue. Digging a little deeper reveals the printer queue that is jammed is Quickbooks 2009 Pro's "Quickbook PDF Converter." I can let OneCare "fix" the problem and the icon turns green, but three or four hours later the printer queue error...

Hi all. I just want to share with you my thoughts about smart card authentication implementation in Vista. I know that smart card logon, also known as strong authentication or two-factor authentication, can be performed on a machine that is connected to a domain. And in Vista SP1 it's been added the support for biometric factor authentication so that, with the appropriate security tokens,...

Well, I have read all of the search-engine hits I can find, and they all seem to point to the fact that you can't run scheduled tasks in Vista Home Premium using a regular username even when you supply the correct password. Vista forgets the password and gives the error "2147943726 (Logon failu unknown user name or bad password)" whenever it tries to run a scheduled task (scheduled at...