Lionel Chen. Microsoft Online Community Support. I'm have been pulling my hair out the last few days trying to do something as simple as installing a brand new HP Printer on my brand new Acer Laptop with Windows 7.
I tried the advice above posted by Lionel Chen, which seemed to be going fine until I got to the end. My error message read I'm about ready to through my computer against the wall. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? SQL Server.
Sign in. United States English. Home R2 Library Forums. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Programs should be saving data in one of the user's folders, or one of the Public folders, and not in the Program Files folder. When I look for my. Now that I've clicked on the security button in that Program Files directory, the Search succeeds. But the Search didn't succeed until I stumbled around and found the file I wanted.
So the search was useless and misleading. How many other files am I not finding because of this problem? I don't have a way of knowing. I used a program called FileSeek to search with, to see if it was better than the Windows Explorer Search. There is no such feedback with Windows Explorer Search.
But I understand what you said about some folders being Junction Points, and it sounds like a good idea, but it doesn't help me with obtaining successful searches. I understand the need for securing directories and such, and welcome it. But I need to get by the restricted search problem. At this point, I still don't see a good way around it. Am I missing your points? Do you ever have this problem?
Can you search everywhere on your hard drive, or do you have the same restrictions I have? Please know I appreciate everyone's efforts here. TerryNet Terry. Joined Mar 23, Messages 81, Can you search everywhere on your hard drive,. Now that you mention it I did add the drive to the Index, excluding the Windows folder and a few others.
I'd forgotten I did that. Click Start , type Index , click Indexing Options when it appears in the list. The attachments shows how I have mine set. If I want to search one of the excluded locations I have to browse to it first.
Well, heck, I want to search AppData and other directories you excluded. I just want to be the only one who can do it. TheOutcaste showed exclusions from indexing. They appear to be mostly defaults, as I have mostly the same list and never knew that option was available. If you have your search options set the way I do whether or not those folders are excluded from the index will only impact the speed of the search.
I see Terry, the index only indicates what will be indexed for faster searching. Including or excluding does not affect what is actually searched. If I exclude nothing in the Indexing, I still won't be able to search everywhere.
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It worked. I too have been pulling my hair out over this issue and I hope that this solves it. What is paricularly bothersome to me is that I have been able to acces the printer from the vista machines when it was attached to an older XP box running home addition.
The Vista machines have always been able to access the XP home machines even when the vista drivers were not available.
Sharing works fine other than that and I could share it without the drivers to 2 Vista laptops when attached to the old XP box or laptop. I have uninstalled, reinstalled changed protocalls bindngs etc to no avial and was wondering if it was an AMD thing.
I have spent days reading articles and forums while trying to run my business as well. So I Just cannot thank you enough for htis. Thanks Again Matt Z. Thanks for the help. I used the directions given and used the Photosmart driver which comes with Vista.
It works great. Thanks again. I have wireless printing to the photosmart This solved it perfectly for the exact same problem occuring for my combination of Win XP Pro computer as print server and my Win XP x64 client. I'm in a dorm room with 4 guys and we have an extra old laptop with XP sharing the printer.
Only the guy with XP could print while the other the three of us with vista had no luck, our computers would freeze up but now it works! Why was it so hard to find this one little post? It would help so many people! Okay, so this didn't work for me. Or let me rephrase, it DID work, but also didn't. I want to be able to log in which I can and print from the Vista computer onto a printer connected to my XP laptop which I can't.
Please help!! I'm about to downgrade to XP Pro if this doesn't work. This fixed our problem in a local auto shop I was setting up from an XP shared printer to a Vista desktop.
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