happy new year friends, i just formatted my comp & before i did i ran scans with spy-bot, win Onecare & McAfee just to make sure i had no infections. I also made sure i updated all antispyware & virus app & then did my scans whilst i was disconnected from the net. After i reinstalled, i installed Acronis Image Home11, which B4 i have installed with no prob's, but this time i decided to installed...

i went away and so i locked one of my disk drives and also locked my user account so that a guest user wouldn't have access to any of my stuff. Now i came back and tried to log into my account and it wont let me so i went into guest user and tried to unlock from there but its saying system file cant be found. My password is working because some programs asked me for authorization and it worked...

Hi, I was looking into the Event logs on my Vista system and found the following error message: "The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because the shadow copy storage could not grow due to a user imposed limit." After I perform a disk clean and delete the shadow copies, my System

Hello everyone, I had recently downloaded some animated Smiles. My AV programs found adware in the Smiley program, namely MyWebSearch and Fun Web Products. The threat level ( scale 1- 10 ) is 1. I am not sure if I should or should not keep the Smiley program. Please advise. Thank you.

Windows Live™ OneCare™ , Norton 360? or ??? Any thoughts or comparisons welcome. Thanks, Chas

Most companies these days are using disk encryption on their laptops. I am planning to use TrueCrypt for my laptop. The question I have now is about backups and the system restore procedures. I do my backups to an external disk and am assuming that the complete system backup is also going to be an encrypted image. My main concern is about the restore session. If I do have to restore my...

Just got a new laptop and I keep getting an alert from Windows Security saying no malware protection.....I have McAfee and don't know how to get the alert to stop or to get it recognized. Help! Please! -- Barbwire

I need help forming an outbound rule for the firewall in vista home premium 32 bit. I am using Windows Mail, and the Windows firewall, and Norton internet security 2008. I don't use the Norton Firewall. I have turned on the outbound firewall and have been creating rules for Firefox, Skype etc. this works ok. But Windows Mail is being blocked, because the virus scanner in Norton is not allowed...

How turn off welcome screen and turn on old logon screen. -- Best regards Wojciech Nestorowicz www.chipset.c0.pl

hii wen u acess something on vista u are shown a lil menu and are asked hether u want to continue and now when i get that menu it says enter password due to parental control.1st of all there is no text box so i cant enter nothing and 2ndly i did not activate parental control..so i think there is some sort of error on my vista and i reaallly need helpp... please i am begging anybody please help...

Hi, I would like to know is there any way to find username and password for a standard user in vista. In XP we have GINA by which we can get these credentials. Thanks. --

Hello Can you help me please if you have a solution I have problem with ActiceX Exe (2 Software) in Vista I can open just on, I can't opened the other, I have the error "Unexpected error; quitting" which is the same error I get when running MyExe.exe /RegServer from the Start | Run.

Hi, I am having my laptop with Vista Business edition, with service pack 1, when iam trying to update OS patches i get this error 80072f78 error on windows update .Pls help me how to sort out this issue Regards Alex

I have upgraded a XP machine (domain member) to Vista Ultimate (domain member) and am having problems running system utilities that require administrate or elevated rights. I think it is an issue with UAC / security. With UAC enabled many programs in the c:\windows\system32 will not run and return the "path does not exist" error that I show below when I would be expecting the UAC prompt. An...

Hi, I have a problem currently with Windows Vista Ultimate(Integrale), this occurred last Friday evening. I was finishing off a word document when suddenly all went black. As an end user I assumed this was a system crash and so rebooted my system, then ran registry repair, then checked for viruses etc with Live OneCare, eventually reloaded Vista all to no avail. Each time I rebooted I was...

I have three questions regarding elevation: a. How do I do it on the command line for a particular program other than elevating the whole command shell? b. When I right click, some programs have Run as administrator but some not. How do I get those with not to have that option? c. What's the difference between a user in the Administrator group running as administrator and when not...

i had installed windows vista ultimate in my hp nc6400 laptop before. During that time i used bitlocker drive encryption to encrypt my drive. Later i installed windows xp and now i am not able to read that partition and all my important data is in that partition pls help me out how can i decrypt that partition.. i am in so big trouble.

I have been unable to find my answer to the update page. When I go to windows update the page comes up but it is missing a lot of icons and I am unable to control the page. Plus my updates are out of whack because I cannot review my history and check for updates that are not being installed correctly. Please help....greg

i recently got new computer with vista home premium x64. i attached the harddrive from my old xp computer (w/external case) so i can get all the files from it, but when i try to open the files it says i dont have permission. ive managed to use the security tab to "replace owner and subcontainers on objects" while changing the owner, for some of the files (mostly mp3's) but this is very tedious....

I am using Vista Home Premium, SP1, with the latest updates for WU and Defender .... I think. I see the orange oval with the black exclamation mark on the Windows Defender System Tray icon and am asked to check for new definitions. I do, there are no new definitions and yet I keep seeing that exclamation mark advising me to do something. I did a scan, rebooted the computer (even though I...