Forgive me if this has been asked thousands of times but I've done searches and haven't found an answer. We have an application that has it's own updater that works by going out to a local server (not the internet) on the network and checks for updates each time the program starts. If an update is found the files are copied over and installed using a .inf file and win32 setupAPI calls. Some of...

I am involved with a gaming site that was initially created using Real Basic. When running Vista, the locally executed user client code for our lobbys require the UAC to be turned off or a "RegistryAccessErrorException was not handled" error occurs. I have discovered that right clicking our folder in hkey_classes_root and manually setting the "Users..." permission to allow full control will...

On my laptop, when I attempt to log into IE, I get the message below. How do I resolve? Policy provider : Windows firewall Filter name : filter name Block Idman from all other ports

How do I navigate my way in Windows to the Verisoft Access Manager so that I may register my fingerprints for use on my HP Pavilion v6500 laptop

Hello everybody, I've been using Windows Vista for 3 months, since i've bought my notebook. Last week I got a problem running Ad-Aware 2007 and since then it doesn't work anymore. The same thing occours with Skype. I tried reinstalling everything with both but it didn't work at all. Now I can't execute them. I don't have any virus, spywares, malwares or something like that at the moment.

My email box is loaded with "Returned and Undelivarable Messages" using my email address as the sender. Some are in foreign languages. How can I prevent someone from using my emaill address to send out mass spam email? My anti-virus and spyware programs do not seem to help.

Forgive me if this has been asked thousands of times but I've done searches and haven't found an answer. We have an application that has it's own updater that works by going out to a local server (not the internet) on the network and checks for updates each time the program starts. If an update is found the files are copied over and installed using a .inf file and win32 setupAPI calls. ...

Hello, I am currently investigating the "delegate default credentials" policy for TS connection (TS SSO) from a domain user. The behaviour is, that the user generates itself a kerberos ticket for TERMSRV/tsserver.domain.local. Here its ok. But what is the actuall essence of the following TS login? Will the client pass down the ticket to the terminal server OR will it then use cleartext

Hi, I have some trouble. My vista can't finish update MS08-024. The error code is 80070005, I try administrator to update but also failed. I try to close all Anti-Virus software and update before reboot, but failed again. And my OS is nearly fresh. Thanks.

Hi I am trying to use Windows Vista backup but I want to save my backups encrypted. That is a normal function provided by most backup tools nowadays, but Windows Vista seems to lack that. Now, I tried to solve this problem by using TrueCrypt to create a logical on-the-fly encrypted drive and try to save my backup there. When I try to setup a backup, the logical drive, is not listed as one of...

Hi, I've the following problem when attempting to export a e-mail client certificate. “The associated private key is marked as not exportable” This happens after installing the certificate regardless the authority. I tried: - Verisign: They don't know

syntpstart.exe vista error message at start up the application failed to initialize properly 0x0000017

I keep running into situations with newly installed programs (for structural reasons I have my program files folder on a partition labed "P:") When I install a program I am asked for UAC permission. Once installed, it runs fine, until I reboot! After rebooting my shortcuts to the newly installed program are generic and cannot access the program folder. nor can I get to it witrh explorer. ...

How can I confirm that BitLocker is indeed turned off? Microsoft provides the instructions below, but this is after it has been on. I see no BitLocker options under Control Panel, Security. Thanks, Alan From: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/aa905089.aspx?id=2537#BKMK_S7

I lock my pc ( windows key + L) before i go home each night. when i get in in the morning and hit CTRL+ALT+DEL to unlock my pc, the hard disk activity goes through the roof ( well, the Hard disk light on my pc is going mental) and it can take up to 35 minutes before im presented with the screen to enter my username password. it means that i have ot either shut down my pc or reset it each...

Hello, i have vista home basic. Recently I've had to block a start-up program because for some reason it was not letting me view web pages (I don't get it - I had to call HP tech support and they walked me through it). So my internet viewer is working just fine, no prob. But now a window comes up constantly in the lower right-hand corner saying "Windows has block start-up programs - click here...

Suddenly I get this message and Win Defender doesn't start. I tried to restore the system, but nothing changed I downloaded Defender from Microsoft's site in order to reinstall it, but it says Vista already contains Defender, so I don't need to install it. There is no way to disinstall it and re-install it, so how can I solve the problem?

Reposted with additional information because last post didn't yield a solution. System: Vista Business Edition, avast! free edition, Windows Firewall. One Care is not being used, and !avast is the only run-time AV. Windows Defender is set to Auto-start. At start up, Security Centre gives me the message that Windows Defender is

How would a guy properly uninstall Norton Internet Security 2008 so he can use AVG? thx

I would like to use regedit as well as find a way to turn off that family safety reminder/viewing on a standard account. But everytime I use the "run as admin" it does it to that "admin" account not the standard account user. Is there a way to run admin like actions such as stop change of desktop, icons, delete temp,history,etc for a standard user? I know i have to run as admin but that only...