Posts Tagged ‘windows 7’

Please note: anytime your having computer issues and attempt a built in windows repair solution you may render the computer inoperable. Back up important files before attempting repair facilities. However my personal experience,  system restore has never adversely effected my systems and often solved my problem.

If your Windows 7 computer has become slow or acting strange with blue screens or other malfunctions the best initial solution is to do a system restore to a prior date, when the system was working properly.

Sometimes newly downloaded software programs or installation of new hardware with drivers causes various computer malfunctions.

Windows has a utility built in that takes a snapshot. if you will, of the operating system several times a month. These would be called ‘restore dates’ you can go back in time and reset your system back to a date it was running properly.

The advantage to this is, it does not effect any of your saved files. It will however not include software installations you installed past the date you do the restore from. This means they will have to be re-installed after the system restore if you want them. This process if much faster than re-installing your operating system. Often a quick solution to many computer problems.

1.) Click the start button and type the words ‘system restore’ in the search box.

2.) Click the highlighted phrase at the top of the pop up search window ‘ system restore’. Once the service loads, click next at the bottom of the first window. This will bring you to the restore date window ( see screen shot below ).

3.) Choose a date from the list by clicking it. If you need to move back further in time you can tick the ‘show more restore points’ tick box.

4.) Once your date is highlighted you can proceed by clicking next at the bottom.

Another handy feature is the ‘Scan for effected programs’  button, as seen on above screen shot. If there is more than one person installing things on your computer or you may have forgotten about an application you installed this will list all effected programs that will be lost after restoring the computer.

 5.) Read the information on this last wizard window carefully and click finish.  If you have recently changed your log in password, follow the directions on the ‘create a password reset disc’. 

Once you click finish, your computer will reboot and after a brief process will be restored back to the date you selected.

There is a good chance this procedure will save you from a costly computer repair.

We hope you find this information useful.

Have you gotten an “Access Denied” error when you try to open a folder or a file created in a Windows 7 machine to Windows XP?

It happened to me yesterday.  This is what I did to fix this problem.

First Step:  Disable the SIMPLE FILE SHARING of Windows XP.

• Click Start then click My Computer.
• On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
• Click the View tab.
• In the Advanced Settings section, look for Use simple file sharing (Recommended) uncheck it and click ok.

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Second Step: How to take ownership of a folder

• Right-click the folder that you want to take ownership of,  then click Properties.
• Click the Security tab then click Advanced
• Click the Owner tab.

In the Name list,  you will see your username, you can click it , or click Administrator if you are logged in as Administrator  or you can  click the Administrators group.

If you want to take ownership of the contents of the folder, check the Replace owner on sub containers and objects checkbox.

Click OK, and then click Yes when you receive the following message:

You do not have permission to read the contents of  directory folder name. Do you want to replace the directory permissions with permissions granting you Full Control?

If you click yes then all permissions will be replaced.

After these steps you should not have this ‘access denied’ error message again.

I think perhaps Microsoft does not want us holding on to these older versions of Windows. I like windows 7 but a lot of people still have XP on other computers in their house/work.

I hope you find this tutorial helpful.