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Greetings, first post in your lovely forum. My apologies for the long intro, but I figured any bit of info to help. I'm usually pretty good about Googling my problems and fixing them from there, but this time I'm a bit stumped. Plus, with a new OS like 7, Microsoft was unable to help me, without charging me, anyway.
I'm a second year at college, a Computer Network Engineer major, and we've recently learned how to set up shared folders on a network. I have my own system built from scratch, you can find my specs in my profile, so I'm not a complete newbie with PC's. I installed the RTM of 7 after they released it on the MSDN for my school. I installed it, and after a mishap with my sound card that your friendly board members helped fix, I came again for this problem. This time asking myself...
I was unaware that the wired/wireless network I had set up at home counted as a genuine network, so with the knowledge in hand, I set out to make a shared folder on my network. It went well save for the fact I couldn't see my Dad's PC on the Homegroup, a problem I know how to fix, but have yet to get around to.
After changing a few options on my own system like starting my own Homegroup, changing sharing options for various folders that shouldn't have been, various options I cannot remember and things like that, I rested easy, knowing all was working with the shared folder.
Here's the problem, things started not working. I would attempt to open Thunderbird, Firefox, and Stickynotes, only for it to report things like profile errors and just plain can't open errors. I cleared Appdata regarding the programs, and they started working again.
Things were okay for a few days, and now I can't seem to save in the Libraries. At all. The message is as follows, "You can't save here. Please choose another location.". I thought it a bit strange, googled it, Vista had the same problem, tried the, "X the window, try again, and voila!", to no avail.
Then other things like Mirror's Edge started having trouble saving at all, too. Then UltraMon stopped showing my backgrounds when I tried to change them, ultimately showing nothing but black. iTunes, which reported something about a locked .itl file, which was fixed by deleting my library in the My Music folder in the library. And a strange error with my games icon, though not in the official games folder. I have a separate folder for all my game shortcuts, and some icons will just drop out sometimes. It seems to have fixed itself, so that's good.
In my attempts to fix all these issues, most of all the Library issue, I've noticed it seems to occur with only my account. I made another temp account and it reports no issues then.
I have also changes permissions for a few more things, again, nothing. And finally, I saw the Users group for the C:/ drive and how it didn't have full access, changed that, did nothing, changed it back. I also left the Homegroup and joined again, nada.
So, once again, sorry for the very verbose opening, but my question is this. Anyone know what's going on or how to fix it? My professor doesn't have my experience in Windows 7 or Vista, Microsoft is no good, and google is turning up nothing.
Thanks for anything you can do to help.