I recently started getting an error message stating that "WINDOWS CANNOT ACCESS THE SPECIFIED DEVICE, PATH, OR FILE. YOU MAY NOT HAVE THE APPROPRIATE PERMISSIONS TO ACCESS THE ITEM", or more recently APPLICATIION NOT FOUND, whenever I double click on my cd rom drives. If I right click on the drive icon and click EXPLORE, I can access the files on any disc in the drive. If I go into safe...

My parents laptop with vista basic locked-up. They could not clear it so they turned the power off. When they rebooted, it came up with a black screen. Then they turned the power off and pulled the battery. Now it comes up with the black screen and is asking for a password (this is before the vista logo appears). They are over 80 and have no idea what the password is. Any ideas on how to get this...

My specs:Toshiba Satellite A205-S5825 Intel Pentium Dual-Core T2370 1.73GHz2.5 GB RAM 32-bit operating system120GB Win Vista Home Premium I am the administrator on my computer and my son has a standard account.I would like to set up parental controls on my computer. I tried using the Vista parental controls. My problem is that my son's standard account doesn't require him to use my password to...

When try to delete LEGACY registry items leftover from uninstalled programs, get "Access Denied" message when try to tick-off to allow under Permissions, No problems deleting any other registry items - just the LEGACY ones. Using Vista Ultimate and I am the Administrator and only user. Any ideas much appreciated.

Okay, I was forced to buy a new computer two days ago (my old XP Pro Dell is dead - so sad...) Anyway I'm a new Vista user and still setting up the new machine (HP Pavilion dv2911us) to my preferences and I have already encountered a problem. Starting yesterday, Vista no longer asks me for a password when I wake the computer up from hibernation. Then it wouldn't boot at all. I did the...

i have a vista desktop(hard wired to the router) a vista laptop (wireless) a 2nd XP desktop (hardwired) and 2nd XP laptop (wireless), before Vista, i could get files and make changes to all computers from any where, now it says that i have to enter a user and password when i chose a computer i want to access. i have resetup the network 2 times, and each time i have NOT setup with passwords,...

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I bought a new computer with Vista installed. I tried to set up 2 accounts, one for me and one for my son. I set him up as a standard user and I THOUGHT I set myself up as the administrator. I was able to set the parental controls and then I restarted the computer. Now for some reason it shows BOTH of us being standard users and I am unable to do anything including using the "Use as...

I currently have an error with the ODBC32.dll. When trying to copy in a new DLL system stated I did not have permission. In Safemode, commad prompt I ran "sfc /scannow". The scan found errors but was unable to correct some. When I tried to read the log file.... I did not have permission. The user id I am using (the only one on the system) has "admin rights"..... Any Ideas

when i try to uninstall a certain program i gave system adminstrative control to before when i didnt know what i was doing a window pops up and says that the adminstrator set policies to not allow the installation or uninstallation of the program i tried many different ways and in doing so deleted all the files but the program is still on my computer can anyone tell me if its possible to still...

when i try to uninstall a certain program i gave system adminstrative control to before when i didnt know what i was doing a window pops up and says that the adminstrator set policies to not allow the installation or uninstallation of the program i tried many different ways and in doing so deleted all the files but the program is still on my computer can anyone tell me if its possible to still...

Is there a way to disable the paswork bank popup window everytime i try to log onto sites? I find it really annoying that it asks me everytime when i don't want to save any passwords for any site.

Hi when changing the sharing options in Windows Vista Home. I am not sure quite what happenhere but now I do not have access to my own C: drive and or permissions to change copy or move anything on it. I have the user profile on this machine and it is set as the administrator and other one is Guest, I have also lost access to all administrative capabilities. My problem is how do I fix this...

when i try to boot, i get a message that it can't find the os. if i put an xp cd in and reboot, i get a message to press any key to boot from cd. if i DON'T press any key, it will go to install vista screen, when i click install a fresh windows, i realise that both my hard drive is gone. any help would be greatly appreicated.

Vista doesnt seem to allow me to select multiple files or folders by holding ctrl or shift key. Other versions do. there are even times where the "Select ALL" choice is not an option. can anyone tell me how to fix???

thank you guys for your help, but is there an apple newsgroup, or mactintosh that i can type in to my NNTP box e.g.(msnews.microsoft.com)? i am using windows mail for this(vista basic

Our solution for preventing users from leaving behind profiles on lab machines has been to add the Domain Users group to the Guests group on those machines. As long as a user was a member of the Administrators group on the machine, that user's profile would not be deleted. I just discovered that with Vista, even Adminstrators' profiles are deleted in this scenario (of course I mean users...

Three people share the PC at home--Dad, bro, and me (nikita). I was having problems with my account, so I decided to delete it then open a new one using my dad's account. Before deleting, the computer asks whether to keep nikita's files or delete them also. I clicked on "Keep files" and it said the files would be saved in a folder called "nikita" on the desktop (dad's). But when the...

....and so the rabbi says, "thats the biggest damn password i have ever seen!!!" can anybody tell me the first part of the joke, i only heard the

I have a vista business with sp1 (Just installed) I get an error that the RPC server is unavailable when i try to Join the pc to the domain. Things I have tried: Reset the Ipstack Checked dns on the server nslookup ect= no errors Static Ip on the client with dns pointing to server