Very noob question

[luke106]

Uh yea, i dont no much about computers and this new game im starting to play (doenst work for any other program as well) doenst allow me to change the privledge level of the program. I right click it, click properties, capabilites, and at the bottom is says run this program as administrator. Except it doesnt give me the option of check marking it? I dont understand why not. kk thanks in advance.

[patio]

I've got a feeling we're gonna need alot more info...

[luke106]

lol ok. Lemme put it this way. For every single app on my desktop, more importantly the game Aion in which im trying to play. Every single time i go to change the compatibility level on the aion launcher,  to run as administrator, it wont allow me to check mark the box which says run as administrator in the privledge box and i dont no why. lol i dont no how much more i can explain it..

[Allan]

http://www.tipandtrick.net/2008/how-to-take-ownership-and-full-control-permissions-of-files-and-folders-in-vista/

and my favorite:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

[luke106]

Um yea, one more question im kinda freaking out. Everytime i look at C drive, it seems the amount of Gb's of ram i have keeps going down.... Why? lol

[patio]

I like the 2nd one...Nice Find !

[Allan]

I like the 2nd one...Nice Find !

I love it. It's been on all my Vista systems from day one. Even with the very powerful SubInACL (which I also run on all systems), it's amazing how many times I've used that context menu item.

[Allan]

As for the "disappearing space", it's probably system restore.

[luke106]

WHATS that lolol please help im scared

[Allan]

You should be scared of global warming, people driving while texting, and the boogeyman, but not computers.

Also, you need to start using Google. System restore creates "restore points" (snapshots of your registry) so that in the event you run into a problem you can revert the registry to an earlier time. These restore points take a lot of room. You can go to System Properties - System Restore and reduce the space allotted to System Restore.

[Spoiler]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306084

Info to read about system restore

[Hateadub]

That or you have one of those nasty viruses that replicates itself like an ATOM splitting, but maintaining its weight. Check the system restore, and turn it off. If it keeps going up rapidly, run a virus scan. I had a viruses that would constantly make itself bigger, until it filled up my hard drive and crashed me. Granted this was a long time ago, when xp was bugged out.

[JXY]

replicates itself like an ATOM splitting, but maintaining its weight

haha. strange analogy, seeing as atoms don't normally split by themselves, because if they did then ZOMG this world wouldn't be intact 

but yea some viruses can create a file, then duplicate itself (like uncontrollable cell mitosis), forming a cancerous tumor in your hard drive that keeps growing until it fills your hard drive - metaphorically speaking of course 

i remember one time carbon wrote a batch script that created a text file containing the single letter a, but then continuously duplicated itself and merged the two duplicates until i started noticing something was wrong with my usb..........*sigh....

[BC_Programmer]

drawing analogies between computer viruses and cell mitosis and atoms splitting is like drawing a analogy between a glass bottle and a pair of shears.

[Hateadub]

Haha, apologies. How about it reminds me more of nuclear fission. It can split an atom, and make it smaller, in an instant making (in the case of an nuclear bomb) a huge explosion. Sorry i read the book "uranium" a couple weeks ago and it is still stuck in my head. (its strange to me that something can split, making it half of something else, and repeat this process, until it turns into something much larger, strange.)