How to enable administrator account in Windows 8 The built-in ‘administrator’ account in Windows 8 is hidden by default. To enable the ‘administrator’ account in Windows 8, you need to: Open the command prompt using Administrator privileges. To do so, Click on the command prompt and select ‘Run as administrator’ option as shown in figure …
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Unable to edit the hosts file in Windows7 In Windows 7, the location of the ‘hosts’ file is ‘C:WindowsSystem32driversetchosts‘. By default, Windows 7 does not allow edit on this file. To edit ‘hosts’ file, follow the steps given below: Procedure 1: Start->Run Type notepad and click OK button Notepad application will open with administrator privileges …
In Windows 7, run program in compatibility mode is greyed out In Windows 7, compatibility mode is used to run a program that is written for a previous version of Windows to run on Windows 7. I tried to install device drivers from Windows Vista on a Windows 7 machine. To install the drivers in …
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Problem with deleting files in Windows7 In Windows7, I couldn’t delete the file(s) from the Desktop, when I select some files for deletion, it shows a confirmation box ‘Are you sure you want to send the files to Recycle Bin?’, and when I click on Yes, It shows ‘Calculating size’ and hangs. Then I had …
Icons not showing up on Desktop in Windows 7 In Windows 7, sometimes there is an issue that the icons are not shown on Desktop, taskbar etc. The option ‘Show Desktop icons’ should be checked, that is available when we right click on Desktop and click on View. From view, we have to check ‘Show …