I need help on disabling windows system restore, I followed the procedure that windows help provides but i can not uncheck the c drive on: computer/(right click) properties/ system protection because there is a message that says "configuration is disabled by group policy". You should know that this is my home computer, is stand alone not connected to any network or domain and I am running as...

hello, I donn't know how to get OS security update list in Vista. I want to write a c++ program which can get security update display names list in vista and I can't use WUA lib. Who knows other methods except using WUA. I have tried to do something, for example: Firstly, in windows XP, I have get the list of security updates through enumerating registry

Hi, I have an external hard disk where I backup my files and system backups. Yesterday, I purchased a larger external hard disk and want to transfer everything to the new disk. The only command I have noticed is DISKCOPY which might do this. Will this copy everything from the source disk to destination disk? Will the Vista backup directories and shadow (backup) files be copied too?

Upon accessing Windows Security Center, I see both Virus Protection and Spyware are both turned Off. Upon accessing Security Provider - Symantec, I see only Norton Internet Security listed. What do we need to do for the Windows Security Center to acknowledge Norton 360 installed and working well? Appreciate! Sadie

hi, if i encrypt my hard drive with bitlocker, and do complete system image & also data backups, are those backups also protected by bitlocker encryption ??? thanks, mike.

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I am trying to login to a network drive that is password protected, I can access it through http but cannot access through explorer, when asked for login name and password vista adds the computer name to the login name and then says login unsuccessful make sure name and password corect, I cannot access my files and when I add a network password to my user account it does not save. Any help would...

When Windows Firewall altered me that it blocked a program and I chose to to block it, the program was still allowed to send traffic. I tried manually blocking the program by making an Inbound and Outbound rule in the Advanced Security console, but this isn't working either. Screen of Windows alerting me: http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/908/70924482tj1.png Screen of the traffic passing by...

Here at our place of employment, we have one smart card for general network logon and a second smart card for administrative tasks. Do manage this, we have two card readers at our desktops. Our issue is when trying to remote to another users PC to perform troubleshooting and/or maintenance, Windows Vista only sees one card reader with remote desktop connections. Is there a method of allowing...

Hope this is the right place for a UAC question I have a Vista64 Ultimate system. A few weeks after the initial build, I determined that the hard disk was bad as it would hang until it had run and warmed up for quite a while. Purchased a new hard disk and reinstalled windows. As part of the "new" install, I used an 8Gig USB drive to transfer personal files (including Favorites) from the...

Bonn, Germany - A security hole has been discovered in the VLC Media Player, the German Federal Agency for Security in Information Technology (BSI) in Bonn reported. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability using rigged Real Media files (file ending with "rm") to install malicious software onto the user's computer. The victim has just to open the manipulated multimedia file. VLC Media Player...

Hello All, I have a problem, that I cannot make any update on vista, and the trustedinstaller.exe always crash down, and gives me an error number 800706BE. And also windows defender cannot check any updates, and even MSN messenger, i cannot install it. any advice thank you.

Added vista.security to this thread to see if anyone has run into this. Miro "PA Bear " wrote in message ... Try posting here instead: microsoft.public.windows.vista.security Miro wrote: I am trying to install a program with clickonce and I am getting this

Hi, I changed my AD password using a different PC than I normally use. When returning to my normal machine (Vista) and logging in over a VPN, the Vista box will only allow me to log on using my AD account and my old password. I then have to provide the new password every time I access a networked resource. If I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete and try to change my password, Vista complains my...

I am using the techinque to get the TokenElevationType using the API GetTokenInformation on Vista to determine if a user is an admin. It seems to work fine on Vista Business/Ultimate etc. However, it fails on Vista Home. Does anyone have any clues? The code is along the following lines: TOKEN_ELEVATION_TYPE elevationType; DWORD dwSize;

Hi all, for developing prupose i need do block a udp braodcast to a dedicated port. It is possible to configure such a rule, bit the firewall do not block the broadcasts. Any suggestions

Vista home premium, SP1 Internet explorer 7.0.6001.18000 attempting to add an address to the Restricted sites in the security tab of Internet Options. specific site is search.live.com, but applies to any other as well. response is that Sites added to this zone must use the https// prefix. This assures a secure connection. That response is expected when adding to the Trusted sites, not the

Does this remove all your certificates? I inadvertently hit this feature. I don't see any list but in Windows Vista (About) it says it is protected by a 256-bit cipher.

Since activating Windows Firewall I have been unable to upload photos from my digital camera to my PC hard drive. The sound is "Device Failed to Connect". Is there a setting in Windows Firewall that I need to change, or set? I looked at "Exceptions", but I really don't know what to do there. I did add the Photo software program to the list that normally uploaded my photos from my camera,...

Hi, I have Vista Business and Vista Home laptops. The "Sharing and Discovery" settings in "Network and Sharing Centre" are identical. When I try to run net use \\ipaddress\IPC$ /USER:administrator password on the VISTA BUSINESS machine it works. but on the VISTA HOME machine I get: