I am running Vista Home Basic on an Inspiron 640m Duo 1.86GHz, with 2G RAM.
This morning I accidentally messed up something in Sys32 folder permissions
while trying to take ownership of a file. I tried to run system restore but
the screen just flickers a bit and nothing happens. ...

Anyone know how Vista handles .ini files? I have software that uses an ini
file but unless I run the software as administrator, it seems to use a
cached version. The user I log in as is in the Domain Admins group too!!

I deleted Norton so I could get my e-mail working and installed AGV
Anti-Virus. Now, whenever I restart my computer I get a message saying that
"The application failed to initialize properly". What do I do now?

I picked up Vista Home Premium on the day on release and as the Security
Centre is concerned I’ve had no problems what so ever
I turned on my PC this morning though to be greeted with a “You Computer is
at Risk” message which I found kind of strange because I’ve never had one

I believe this is a security issue.
I am using Vista to connect to a WSBS 2003 via remote access.
Everything works until I want to send, reply or forward a message.
for example....

Should I download Malicious Software Removal Tool or is it not necessary
with Vista Security Protection?

Using Vista and IE 7, have encountered issue with Outllo Web Access using
2003 server.
Users report able to login but when trying to send / reply to emails the pop
up window that normally has the To and message fields are just the red X in

Is it possible on a windows based systems to turn off or disable completely
the copy and paste function, no matter what program is being displayed on the
screen.

Any advice is appreciated.
I don't have Vista , but an elderly neighbour is about to get a new machine
with Vista as her current H/D is dying. I'll be setting it up for her.
I've done some quick reading on UAC and would like to know the preferred

How do I set security so that graphics show instead of little white boxes
with red squares?

Good morning everybody,
I need your assistance for a problem in the configuration of the
Bitlocker.
I'm following the official guide from Microsoft about the

I have the removal tool, everything is setup, works great, just one problem,
I have malicious software on my computer it won't remove, I cannot find it,
have searched extensively throughout my computer, it is no where to be found.
Searched the given address for it and cannot get ...

In windows security center it states that the Automatic updatings is turned
off. I went to change setting and Install updates automatically but it still
doesn't allow me to turn the updates on. It says that McAfee Proxy Service
Module stopped working on a specific date. Can some ...

Is it possible to configure Windows Firewall, thus disabling it to have ICMP
echo requests (Ping) following the online scan by ShieldsUP (Gibson Research
Corporation)?  Unfortunately, my existing 1-port ADSL ethernet modem has no
option to disable Ping.  Is it required to edit ...

I know Microsoft pulled back their Private Folder add-on, but is there a way
in Vista Ultimate to password protect a folder? I have a family shared PC
and I don't want to use/manage multiple logon profiles to do it that way. If
compressed ZIP folders with a password work the same ...