I am the sole owner and user of my laptop. When I first set it up, I established 3 'User Accounts' in the Control panel. One account - the one I would be using most frequently - I set up with 'System Administrator' privileges. The other 2 accounts are for guests, and do not have 'SysAdmin' privileges. My problem is that fairly often, I get a pop-up box that says "You require System Administrator privileges to perform this action." This happens when I am trying to make room on my remote HDD by deleting an old backup. It seems that the operating system does not recognize my 'account' - or any other account for that matter - as having "System Administrator" privileges. How can I correct this problem? Using Win7-Home Premium on an HP dv7 laptop.
I have a 256Gb SSD partitioned into 121GB (Volume label left at default "Local Disk") (C:) and 116 GB Data (D:) (sizes select by default in initial access to Disk Management). I also have an internal SATA 6Gb 500Gb Backup (E:).Apparently this label of my E: drive is both "meaningless" and "meaningful" for Windows 7:When I wanted to make my first SystemImage, Windows 7 suggested that my destination choice was not a good idea. It makes perfect sense for me, but I can see that Windows 7 might prefer an external USB hdd.But I went ahead and made the System Image on Backup (E:) and it appears to be in good order: I allowed Windows 7 to name it with its default folder "WindowsImageBackup" with thesubfolder named from my system name, with add'l subfolders:Backup 2012-01-03 (+ some 6 digit id #,I presume)CatalogSPPMetadataCacheHowever, this System Image is not recognized in Control Panel...Backup and Restore and the "Select another backup to restore files from" dialog does not recognize the E: drive nor allow me any means to select it.
However, if I select "Setup backup" Windows 7 immediately selects Backup (E:), adding the comment [Recommended].I can see the statement near the top of the dialog aboutrecommending a backup on an external drive, but this is not what I consider an intelligent backup approach. I prefer to make both internal backups on my additional internal hdd and external usb hdd copies of backups.The extensive listing of advantages and disadvantages ison. No?My copy of Windows 7 Annoyances informs me about how to access this System Image by the "Attach VHD" option from "Disk ManagementWork with Partitions," even instructing how one can use this method to restore individual files, which normal access to System Images apparently prevents. I have not tried this approach, so I have no sense of its reliability. However, the author has stayed with the evolution of Windows and might be considered to have worthy conceptualizations.
I'm running windows 7 ultimate and am trying to install some software off of a secure server at a remote location to my hard drive. The install fails every time because the my user account (an administrator) does not have full write permissions to the program files directory. I have tried taking ownership of the directory, but I don't have permission to change it from TrustedInstaller.
I turned on the built in administrator account and logged in through that, but there is no difference in permission level. When I attempt to change the permission level I get the following error dialog box: An error occurred while applying security information to:
C:Program Files (x86) Access is denied
Then the following: Unable to save permission changes on Program Files (x86)Access is denied. I've been fighting with this for three days now and I consider myself pretty adept at typical windows bs. Yes, my UAC is set all the way down. That was the first thing I turned off. I also tried shutting down virus protection and firewalls to no avail. Any help here would be awesome since none of the posts I've been able to find say what to do when the admin can't take control from TrustedInstaller.
When I go to Control PanelAll Control Panel ItemsNotification Area Icons dialog then there are a lot of programs which are already uninstalled.
How can I cleanup/delete all these useless entries? How can I delete ONE single entry manually?
Second question: Assume I want to hide icons and notification for mutiple/all entries (here approx 40 items) in ONE STEP.
Third question: How can I save/backup the current notification settings (for later restore) into a file? Are these notifcation settings stored in a certain branch of the Registry (which exactly) ?
I have a Lenovo G560 and i only see one account when i log onto windows whichs is mine but some how my boyfriend logs in without changing my password and now i am not theadministrator i cannot open change or delete a single fileing doesnt help. it says cannot find path or environment variables then it says contact system administrator which my account is. I cannot do a system restore cause it wont let me says denied
For some reason I can't view anything that is under the control panel as well as the control panel itself. I can open everything else fine such as pics, music, games, videos. But anything that has to with the control panel I can't see. The task bar says the folder is open but I see nothing.I have tried the following: ran sfc, it says nothing is wrong, tried to create a new user account, but I can't since it falls under the control panel. I tried to create a new user account through the guest account (I was able to make it an administrator) but it says I can't create a new account with special characters such as $=- etc... I didn't use any special characters at all so I don't know why it's saying that. It seems to me that this is a registry problem, and I'm a little uncomfortable with the registry and don't like to mess with it at all. Worse comes to worse I'm going to try to reinstall windows
cant install java. its missing from my control panel and eveytime i try to reinstall, site site gives me the java 160-31 update, when i try to install it, a dialog pops up promting me to search for the 29 update. i guess thats the 1 in missing cause the same thing happens when i try uninstalling 29 & 30 from my programs & features in my control panel. im running windows 7 home premium 64 bit and ie 9. i also use Google chrome.
I run a server from home and im thinking of giving a few of my very good and trusted staff members access to my server machine but would like to disable the control panel first.
Mainboard : Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLi Chipset : nVidia nForce4 Processor : AMD Athlon 64 3800+ @ 2400MHz Physical Memory : 4096MB (4 x 1024 DDR-SDRAM ) Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM v1.1) Hard Disk : Seagate ST3320620AS ATA Device (320GB) DVD-Rom Drive : PHILIPS DVDR1640P DVD-Rom Drive : DVD-16X DVD-ROM BDV316C Monitor Type : VW222 - 22 inches Network Card : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller Operating System : Windows 7 Ultimate Professional Media Center 6.01.7600 (32-bit) DirectX : Version 11.00
i have done a reinstall of windows 7 32 bit But couldn't boot from cd as usb keyboard would not work (can't get in to bios to change it)So installed windows in windows it was ok till i updated windows I must have installed on board sound and think it is now conflicting with my Xfire sound card Can't open Controll panel as Explorer shuts it self down And can't do a reset to another date as it says can' open a certian file How can i uninsall a program by not using c/p
Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: Explorer.EXE Application Version: 6.1.7600.16450 Application Timestamp: 4aeba271 Fault Module Name: CTMLFX32.dll
Alright, so it started around 5-7 days ago. Photoviewer started giving a message with this line,C:Program FilesWindows Photo ViewerPhotoViewer.dll is not a valid win32 application.Searched on google, first thing it said was to check if there's any viruses. I scanned it with super-antispyware and had one virus. Did the sfc /scannow and it says it couldn't repair some files (CBS logs are over 3mb ). Cleared the virus and after two days, most of the items in control panel doesn't do anything when I try to click on it (i.e Power Options, Backup & Restore, Firewall) or it gives the line,Windows cannot find '::{26EE0668-A00A-44D7-9371,Paint and opening other things through Start Menu gives this fine,C:Windowssystem32ODBC32.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error
I've tried this twice now (on the same machine) and each time Control Panel won't work; it doesn't open. If I change the start menu to show links to Control Panel applets only some of them work; User Accounts, Display, Power Settings, Windows Update and others just do nothing. This means I can't adjust my display properties to get the correct alignment of my dual monitors, among other things, so I've given up on it meantime.
Has anyone else had this problem, or any suggestions on how to overcome it?
When I click on the control panel icon on my desktop nothing happens. When I click on start>control panel I get the same result. I have a power options icon on my desktop and that does not work either. If I right click the power options icon and choose open file location the control panel opens normally. Everything works fine in safe mode though.
i installed windows 7 and managed to get sound working but in windows xp i had this soundmax control panel wizard that let me configure standard sound jacks to 5.1.
i tried going to control panel > sounds > configure speakers but no 5.1 options.
I just finished my new build and everything was going along well when I loaded my drivers for the asus xonar essence st sound card. Now everything in the tool bar, but the start button will not respond and control panel is frozen. Control panel will load but takes 3 or 4 minutes and then is unresponsive. So I can't just uninstall and start over. Any one have any ideas?
my control panel is not on my computer when i enter my desktop. can you helpe get it on my desktop. i also want my pc to restore back to 13th of april?
Suddenly and for no apparent reason Control Panel will not open on my Win 7 64-bit computer. If I go to the Start Menu and click on Control Panel link there, an icon for the Control Panel appears on the task bar, but no Control Panel window is open! If I move the cursor over the icon on the task bar I can see a miniature version of All Control Panel Items, but NO LARGER CONTROL PANEL WINDOW will open. Weird. If I just try clicking on the task bar Control Panel icon nothing happens, unless I right-click on it and click <Close Window>, then it will close. Other links to the Control Panel also fail to open the actual Control Panel, and merely produce a task bar icon.
I am using Windows 7 and have been having this problem for some time now..It seems that the control panel icon keeps showing up twice on my desktop toolbar and no matter how many times I delet it, it keeps returning..
Everytime I click on any item in the control panel the application freezes. What should I do?I have admin rights I am running Panda virus I can still access everything but I have to go the long way round.
I am using Windows 7 and IE 9.I got a message to download an update to IE 10 and clicked the link. Now when I open IE, the screen is entirely white.There are links, but they are white letters on white background. I know there are links because when I move the cursor over one, I see the link in the highlighted window.The latest version is not in the Control Panel, so I cannot remove it. When I try to install IE 9, the message is "The is a more current version installed, cannot install IE 9".I have run virus scan and get no errors.
On three of my Windows 7 systems, the Administrative Tools in Control Panel were all empty. I have already copied and pasted them from another system so I have them back; but, I would like to know what would have caused such a thing.
I had a stroke. Lost use of right Arm, Hand, right leg. Lost of Memory, hearing, Can't talk very well.Had this error "This file does not have a program assocciated with it for performing this action. Please install a program or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Programs control Panel."I tried to open the file. but when I Open With a default program, I opened it.
Windows 7 Professional, Service Pack 1, Processor AMD Athlon X4 2.60 GHz, Ram 4.00 GB, 64-bit OS
I had a stroke. Lost use of right Arm, Hand, right leg. Lost of Memory, hearing, Can't talk very well in since 94.I tried to open the file and Had this error "This file does not have a program assocciated with it for performing this action. Please install a program or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Programs control Panel."Then I Opened Menu open with Notepad or wordpad or libreOffice Writer or AbiWord. Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2 OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Service Pack 1, 64 bitProcessor: AMD Athlon(tm) X4 620 Processor, AMD64 Family 16 Model 5 Stepping 2Processor Count: 4RAM: 4093 MbGraphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series, 256 MbHard Drives: C: Total - 953866 MB, Free - 920895 MB; D: Total - 953866 MB, Free - 918788 MB; E: Total
