I have setup two identical systems: Laptop HP Pavillion dv9500 Desktop HP Pavillion a6207a OS on both Vista Internet connection with wireless and all is working well. I setup both to be a server for intranet BUT the laptop will only work as locahost and other pc are able to ping IP but not connect. Desktop and Laptop setup parameters are identical. What is the problem?????

Searched and saw couple related posts, but not quite this: Want to create new administrator account, same as other workgroup PC's, (mostly XP Pro SP2; w/ no such problem), to help file sharing, plus also other admin logon, separate profile. May or may not also enable real "Administrator", but need new one, and would have same problems here, anyway. I do not want the new admin account to...

I'm the administator and after the last windows update I can not connect to my external drive, access denied. My device manager recognizes it and states it's working. I went into sucurity and all boxes are checked. I populated it and it shows the drive and properties. I connected the drive to my XP laptop and it works fine. Does anyone know when the SP1 for Vista Ultimate is going to be...

when I am doing things on my computer Like going into Mail and comming in here I keep getting this error . You are not currently logged into your computer as a Administrator. I am the only one useding my computer.And when I check under Uses Accounts it said that I am a Administrator With password protected.Then why am I getting the error??

Allo Everybody, I bought a Sony Vaio with Vista Home Premium 32 bits /Norton Anti virus few weeks ago. As Microsoft suggests I have created two user accounts; one as administrator /other as user account but when I did that the system blocked the access to the some programs. For instance I can't use the recovery to bring the computer to an early date and I can't manage the user accounts. But...

I'm on Vista Ultimate. I'm trying to set up a scheduled task which will copy a file from within my AppData folder (I'm an Admin, running with UAC on) to another local user's AppData folder (they're a normal User). My basic Action in the task is: Program: robocopy Arguments: "C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player"

The windows Vista account does not seem to be able to burn a CD. Is there a way to turn on the ability while still maintaining the guest status.

I am a complete newbie to Vista and might be doing something completely wrong which some of you more experienced guys will probably see as a stroll in the park, so here goes... I have a HP Compaq 6720s laptop with Vista Business installed. It will be used on a school network and has been configured to run on the admin domain, by going to system properties then computer name, selecting change,...

I purchased an HP Media Center PC six months ago with Vista Home Premium for Digital TV, which included an ATI TV Wonder digital cable tuner with the package. It came with on product key for Vista and a separate product key for support for digital TV. During my first startup of Media Center, I was prompted to enter the digital TV product key, which I entered and it accepted. The digital...

I just bought this laptop and although i have changed the name of the account in places it still says the previous users name. For example when the task manager comes up it still says user and the previous owner. How do i change this??

I have tried reading the other help questions on this and tried doing some of the answers with no success. All my windows updates are failing. I'm being told I have to be the administrator to go in and delete corrupted logs/ etc. I am the administrator on this computer but I did not set up any password. Most common windows update error is Windows Update error 8007000b. When I have the...

I shut my computer off last night by just holding down the on/off button (not because there was anything wrong with my computer at the time, but because it was faster than letting the system shut down properly. I've learned my lesson, and won't be doing that again). Now, though, when I turn my computer on, it says my user profile didn't load completely or correctly, and that any changes made...

My standard user accounts worked fine until recently. Now, when my children log in, they get a blank screen -- no desktop, no icons, no cursor, nothing. I changed their accounts to administrator accounts, and the accounts work again -- although, of course, my kids can change things that I don't want them to change. Anybody else have this problem? Did one of those relentless Windows updates...

Morning, I'm the network admin and I installed vista business onto my laptop to troubleshoot any issues i'll be running into when and if i start rolling vista out on my workstations. I've got 2 problems with an idea where they are coming from but looking for some help. I did a fresh install and found little trouble right off. But once I connected to the domain (and rebooted a couple hours...

I am trying to associate .eml files with the Incredimail Program I use. However, I keep getting the message "You need to have Administrator or Power User privleges in order to associate .eml files with IncrediMailXe. I am the only user/Administrator on my PC and I've tried everything I know of, including turning on and off User Account Control.

I'm a software developer and I just had cause to copy one of our DLLs into the installation directory on a Vista machine. When pasted it in using Explorer I got (as I expected) the UAC prompt and I logged in as administrator. This was accepted but I then got a dialog box saying needed permission. The dialog box had two buttons and . did what it said but without asking me to log in again. ...

I wanted to test Parental Controls in Windows Vista, so I've created a "Test" account and set parental controls for it. Then, after testing I've deleted a "Test" account. Now every time I log in I get a warning that at least one administrator account has no password. I even completely disabled Windows Parental Controls Service, but it didn't help. How can I get rid of that warnings? (of...

I have walked through the steps via group policy/folder redirection to point my profile to the correct shrare, but vista is still not loading it. Please help!

I am the only user of the machine running Vista Home Premium. I do not use an Administrator password. I want to delete a folder but I keep getting a message that I need permission. Also typing controluserpasswords2 into search does not get me anywhere to even check on what accounts are set up on the machine (possibly by the manufacturer). How can I resolve this?

I upgraded my Dell to Vista. Can I add it from the DVD to my laptop?