flipper wrote:
On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:37:06 -0800, Robert Baer
wrote:

Problems that i need help in solving:

1) Installed without any whimper, plays its "music" when booting.
Speaker icon has an "X", updated driver, no joy. Click on "X" and get
"one or more Audio Services is not running".
BUT.
According to the Computer Services list, there is NOTHING even
remotely like that!!
Nice BS.

I'm not sure "remotely like" what you were looking for but the Windows
audio service is named "Windows Audio."
* NOT found.


The symptom you describe, however, is usually a driver problem. (The
full panoply of 'audio services' does not necessarily need to be
operative in order for Windows to play it's 'sounds').
* It accepts the driver, which was not designed for Win7, Device Manager
is happy, but NO GO.


2) Initially, could find a driver for: Multimedia Video Controller: PCI
bus 1,device 6, Function 0.
It is a video capture card, and it works (!). Tried installing an
outdated driver (!! accepted!!), and the Device Manager is happy now or
that.

3) In selecting the folder Documents& Settings, i get Access Denied.
How in the hell do i fix that?
Better yet, fix that problem for ALL other folders and files that may
have the same "restriction" in one step (not each one individually as i
may or may not find them)?

There is no 'problem' to 'fix' and if you didn't have show hidden
system folders turned on you would never see them. But, since you
apparently do, you are seeing things for OS use that are not 'user
usable'.

Btw, for those claiming Vista is somehow 'better', it has those same
hidden links so your 'problem' wouldn't be any different.

Starting with Vista (continued in 7 and 8) the things XP kept in the
"\Documents and Settings" folder (plus other things) are now located
under "\Users." What you're seeing are (normally hidden) NTFS
'junction points' (introduced in Windows 2000) that are there for
backward compatibility with older programs so if they try to access
something in the old folder it will be automatically redirected to the
correct folder. But there's nothing for a user to see or do with them.
* Don't you mean \All Users in Documents and Settings?


\Documents and Settings redirects to \Users, which is where 'your
stuff' is now located under your username (just as it was under your
username in the Documents and Settings folder), so your documents are
in \Users\username\Documents (which is 'displayed' as My Documents).

OH.
While i leave that message box open, i see a green bar slowly
advancing..What the
heck is that??

The 'green bar' is an animated 'progress' indicator, so you know the
program is 'alive' and not 'locked up', and means it's waiting for
whatever action was initiated to 'complete' (or time out). In that
instance it's waiting for you to hit the 'ok' button, which
constitutes 'completion' (of the unauthorized attempt), so it knows
you 'got the message'.
* Do not remember an "OK" button, but will take your word for it.



4) Access Denied also found at ..\Program Data\Documents, ..\Program
Data\Desktop, and other (but not all) sub-folders.
Again how can i fix?

Same as above, there's nothing to 'fix'. Those are just more junction
points and you apparently have yet to discover others, like "My
Music," "My Documents," and "My Videos" in the
Users/username/Documents folder. (In 7 they've been relocated to
directly under the username rather than a sub of Documents).

\Program Data\Documents points to \Users\Public\Documents and \Program
Data\Desktop points to \Users\Public\Desktop

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr.../bb756982.aspx

The things is, you should be familiarizing yourself with, and using,
the current folder locations and forget about the hidden links.

I hate Win7 in that it is so tight and secretive.
But newer programs "demand" it.

It has nothing to do with being 'secretive'. Those 'folders' don't
exist, as such, and are simply pointers for the O.S. to use when
redirecting what an 'old program' does.