Threads Replies Last Post 22 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22   Parental Control gone mad! Hi there, I recently downloaded some games from www.gamesville.com but when I try to play them I get a message saying that Parental Controls have prevented this application from running. I set up a general account and allowed anyone that used this account to be able to access everything under the Parental Control but it still wont work. I never had this trouble with Windows XP. Can anyo... 2 02.07.2007 01:57:30 -- lock folders -- hi, Is there a way to protect a folder with password in windows vista business? In advance thanks for your help. Edmundo J. Davila... 4 02.07.2007 05:46:10 Secutiry Issue I have observed that, if some one installs a spy software without us knowing on our computer, its not possible to detect those softwares, as they run on stealth mode. Did microsoft think on this matter, as this is a biggest threat to a user if he/she does not know that some one has installed a spy software on their computer. does microsoft have any solution for this kind of scenerio ... 6 02.07.2007 00:15:40 Bitlocker - anyone got it to work using USB flash drive? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000C_01C7BB15.F65680C0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I did all the prep to get Bitlocker working without a TPM-enabled M/B and the wizard starts, the key is successfully stored on my USB U3 drive (which the BIOS sees as a hard driv... 14 01.07.2007 16:10:28 Eliminating Windows Security Alert I am running ZoneAlarm Security Suite and Windows Vista firewall is turned off. Nevertheless the Windows Security Alert red shield continues to display in the task bar. Apparently it doesn't know that another firewall is running. This didn't happen in XP. How can I get rid of the alert as long as ZA is actually running?... 2 01.07.2007 03:45:15 Procedure to create new account doesn't work I need help with the following situation: All attempts to create a new standard user account by means of the prescribed procedure fail. The procedure is Start\Control Panel\User Accounts\Manage Another Account\Create New Account. (New account does not appear in account list in the Manage Another Account dialogue box nor in Start Menu. My account is an Administrator account, which should all... 6 30.06.2007 20:06:03 Cannot turn UAC off As Vista Help directs, to disable UAC, I uncheck 'Use User Account Control' in my account (Administrator) in the User Accounts area of Control Panel. This action does not work. UAC remains active. Why? What do? I have tried to get at security policy by means of secpol.msc, but can not find it. -- Sent by Frederick H. Lamartin fhlamartin@verizon.net... 8 30.06.2007 19:34:23 Error 0x80070002 I can't even open my Windows Defender--it just comes up with error message 0x80070002. ... 7 30.06.2007 18:22:02 Windows alerts on .exe files Hi, When I open .exe files a warning message from windows always appears, it says something like: "Do you really want do open this file? This file can damage your PC (...)". Is there a way to set it off? Thanks! -- Directx 10, save us! ;p... 8 30.06.2007 13:56:46 Personal info Sometimes when I go websites, I find ads displaying info about me like my location which is dead accurate. It scares me a lot when ever I encounter these ads. Is there a way I can view all personal info on Vista and be able to change it? Much thanks.... 5 30.06.2007 01:36:01 Access denied in registry with regedit Hi I need make changes in registry with regedit, but when i try access, appear a message "The administrator blocks registry changes". ¿Can somebody help me? Sorry for my English. Regards... 3 29.06.2007 17:57:46 Windows defender I get a an error " the program cant check for updates error code 0x80248009", when i check for updates. I wasnt having problems in the past. I am running Vista and Norton Antivirus. Thanks in advance, Junior... 2 29.06.2007 17:53:52 adding DLLs to windows\system - access denied I need to add in DLLs, and the system isn't letting me. It isn't giving me the option, it's just stopping me from putting the DLL in the file completely. Look, it's my computer, I'm an adult, and I can take calculated risks with my machine - I even back up first! I want to know how to disable these "security" measures that are only keeping me from what I want to do with the machine. ... 7 29.06.2007 17:00:55 EFS - Backup Certificate & Keys??? Can someone explain why I am getting this message to backup my certicate & keys? I am using Vista Ultimate but have not set up EFS and so far have no need to do so. Yet I began receiving a message yesterday stating that I should back up my certicates and keys from "Encrypting File System". I did not know why and elected to try to backup. Needless to say, this was fruitless since the d... 2 29.06.2007 09:30:21 Help locking down an app please Using Vista Home premium / IIS / PHP5 I have developed a customer feedback system for the front of my store. It is completely stand alone. I use an .HTA to grab the whole screen and hav hidden the task bar, turned off all hibernation and disabled the power switch (OK someone could still pull the power lead - but its fairly difficult to access) How can I stop anyone exiting the software?... 2 29.06.2007 09:06:02 Standard user needs regedit UAC prompt Hello. The term 'Admin' is the main administrator on the computer (run by a person, not the actual 'Administrator' hidden account). Here's what's happening: I am NOT an administrator on my family's computer. The Admin, however, is a control freak. I am not supposed to know my own password to my account, but I do anyway and the Admin doesn't know that. I have opened backdoors to give ... 6 29.06.2007 01:55:34 Kaspersky Anti-Virus (kav6.0.2.621en) incompatible with vista ulti Kaspersky Internet Security Suite or Anti-Virus is incompatible with this version of Windows. For more information, contact <VENDOR>. System - Provider [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-ApplicationExperienceInfrastructure [ Guid] {5ec13d8e-4b3f-422e-a7e7-3121a1d90c7a} EventID 2 Version 0 Level 1 Task 0 Opcode 0 Keywords 0x800... 8 29.06.2007 01:44:51 Driver installation during application install I was installing an application. A dialog box poped up saying the driver wasn't signed or something. It did not say which driver or give any details. There were two choices which amounted to allow or disallow. I thought about it but in 5 or 10 seconds the dialog box disappeared and a progress box showed up indicating progress installing a driver. Does this seem as lame to you as to me?... 1 28.06.2007 23:26:01 Another system restore issue System restore points are never saved. Even after I manually save points and it indicating it has succesfully save it, everytime i check back there are no restore points saved. I am running Windows vista home edition. I have Norton 2007 installed. Please help! Thanks in advance, ... 2 28.06.2007 20:31:42 Is possible to take ownership of a lot of files? My computer now has the Vista OS, the old OS was the XP. I did not made an upgrade but Vista was able to keep all my files and move the old os to windows.old. Well, the problem is with some files. I have a folder, i.e., with a lot of files, when I try to open some Vista complains that file could not be accessed. If I go and take the ownership everything goes ok, of course, but I have... 7 28.06.2007 13:58:00 A thought on improving Vista security. Hello everyone, I have an idea that I think would really help improve Vista security. At the same time, it would make Vista run faster and take up less space, and it would make things more difficult for malicious hackers. Could someone tell me the flaw in this thinking ? Create an application called "Customize Windows" which presents to the user a list of yes/no questions. It wou... 6 28.06.2007 11:15:51 Maintaining Vista from orbit; what mOS? Vista is the first NT-based OS to ship with a maintenance OS... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintenance_OS .... as accessed by booting the Vista DVD (which is when you don't want to be a victim of large-OEM "Genuine Advantage") and going to the Repair section, Command prompt. In addition, WinPE 2.0 availability has been liberalized. However, in practice, these seem to limit what pro... 5 28.06.2007 11:14:29 can't access some directories in vista i bought a new computer with Vista and i can't copy my some of my files from my old computer because access is denied on some directories on the new computer. there's only one user on the system -- me. what happened? Thanks.... 11 28.06.2007 08:13:58 I No Longer Have Access To Windows Defender - Error message When I try to run Defender I get the following error message - "Application failed to initialize 0x80070002" Can someone help me please? I don't know what to do. Gary... 7 28.06.2007 04:26:47 Restoring Bitlocker I used the bitlocker utility to create the S partition. Now I realize I can't use it. How can I restore the S partition back to the C partition?... 4 27.06.2007 23:02:01 22 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22