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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows Vista and 7 => Topic started by: luke106 on September 03, 2009, 09:45:45 AM

Title: Very noob question
Post by: luke106 on September 03, 2009, 09:45:45 AM
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.
Title: Re: Very noob question
Post by: patio on September 03, 2009, 09:48:48 AM
I've got a feeling we're gonna need alot more info...
Title: Re: Very noob question
Post by: luke106 on September 03, 2009, 09:52:10 AM
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..
Title: Re: Very noob question
Post by: Allan on September 03, 2009, 09:52:21 AM
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/
Title: Re: Very noob question
Post by: luke106 on September 03, 2009, 10:13:04 AM
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
Title: Re: Very noob question
Post by: patio on September 03, 2009, 10:13:23 AM
I like the 2nd one...Nice Find !
Title: Re: Very noob question
Post by: Allan on September 03, 2009, 10:20:51 AM
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.
Title: Re: Very noob question
Post by: Allan on September 03, 2009, 10:21:35 AM
As for the "disappearing space", it's probably system restore.
Title: Re: Very noob question
Post by: luke106 on September 03, 2009, 10:23:57 AM
WHATS that lolol please help im scared
Title: Re: Very noob question
Post by: Allan on September 03, 2009, 10:27:51 AM
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.
Title: Re: Very noob question
Post by: Spoiler on September 03, 2009, 10:34:35 AM
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306084

Info to read about system restore

Title: Re: Very noob question
Post by: Hateadub on October 02, 2009, 09:12:43 AM
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.
Title: Re: Very noob question
Post by: JXY on October 02, 2009, 09:31:53 AM
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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  ;D

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  :P

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....
Title: Re: Very noob question
Post by: BC_Programmer on October 02, 2009, 09:44:40 AM
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.
Title: Re: Very noob question
Post by: Hateadub on October 04, 2009, 05:40:37 PM
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.)