administrator account. It has vista home premium 32bit installed. He is

I've had my vista for 6 months. Just last thursday, i decided to secure it
with a password since my peeps use it without my permission sometimes.(It's
never had a password before) Right after i changed my password, i logged off
then try to login again. But it DIDNT WORK!!! I've ...

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 ...

Vista Home Premium/Windows Live Mail - I have made hidden and system files
visible.  However, I like to keep a copy of email files on a backup drive.
When I attempt to see the contents of Users/user/localsettings, I get a
message that says    "... is not Accessible.  Access is ...

My dad got really anoyed with me and took away my control on MY
labtop. (makes me mad) Anyway, I can't get into it through the
password and i don't have any fancy software. I'm trying to delete old
files that are cluttering up my comp and it wont let me cause I'm not

the hyperlinks in MS office applications (any one: word, excel, onenote,
etc.) are  not active. when I click it, the computer said: "This operation
has been canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please
contact your system administrator."

I want a shortcut to appear on the desktop fro all current and new users of a
computer. I tried copying the shortcut to the C:\Users\Default\Desktop folder
and setting the permissions to Everyone has Full Control but the shortcut
does not appear on users profiles. The computer is ...

I am in a windows 2003 Domain and have the following problem when using
remote assistance:
I can offer remote assistance to all Xp workstations but not to any Windows
Vista workstation. When I offer remote assistance to a windows Vista machine

I am trying to start a service on my system that is disabled and when I click
to set it to automatic I get the message from the Services:
The delayed aut-start flag could not be set. Error 5: Access is denied.
Can someone please help get this going.

As the sole user of my home pc, I wish to have full administrative rights.
How do I do this?

I set up a new user account. I want the user not to be able to open several
folders. I already successfully stopped certain programs from being used.
How to deny access to folders. PC not networked.
Niall

must have done some weird setting somewhere, and now NONE of my hyperlinks
in Office or Outlook are working any more.
I got a message : This operation has been canceled due to restrictions in
effect on this computer. Contact your system administrator.

I recently bought a computer from my brother. The admin name was his, and in
trying to change this, have caused some kinks!
There is no longer an admin user option at the start screen, nor from when I
go to "change user"... I have tried computer/manage (thinking I could disable

i have vista home premium went an set a user account up but can not connect
to the internet with the standard account  why is this?

Hi,
I've got a problem with Vista User Access Control,
When I try to open it (in Pproperties->Security) it always end failed with
this message :