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Yes, good point. I hadn't thought that through. You gave three outgoing connections from DriverEasy to block, those only, no others. Yes. And my zone Alarm does not allow for selective blocking, like my Little Snitch on Mac does, its all or nothing from an application. OK, then for that reason, the Hosts file must be used. Might be able to get to that this afternoon, will see. Got Quark up and running, found the file blocking reinstalling it.

Re the settings in Zone Alarm, there is nowhere in the Free version to set "Safe Mode." It has Basic Firewall on, there is no Safe Mode setting, it is merely either High or Medium or Off, depending on Trust or Public. It is in Application Control where I have Defense Net set to manual, so I can set it to block some applications but not others. Bit the bigger question is: If I set that up for Driver Easy to block that, would that not handle the blocking, would there be no no need to edit the Hosts file? I recognize that Hosts file editing is blocking outgoing connection to those URLs.

Thanks. So it isn't a KG, we're not serializing, we're cracking. OK. And thank for telling about the malware consideration. You seem to be using the paid Comodo version. I got the free version of ZoneAarm -- my windows do not match your's. In the free version, I get three tabs at opening page to click into. I am dealing only with the Firewall tab. Clicking into Firewall, I have two things: Basic and Application Control. I click on Settings for Application Control, and in there I deal with the second of the two on the list, DefenseNet, and set that to manual -- so I can block some applications and not others. If I set it for automatic, everything will be blocked. At the bottom of that page, I click on View Programs. In there there is a list of the programs on the computer, not all of them (have no idea how it automatically picks up some but not others). I can click on an Add button to add any I want to set. I can set each individually for Allow, Deny, or Ask. So, I was setting Quark for Den outgoing connections (which also then automatically set it to deny incoming connections too, which is fine). And I would do the same with DriverEasy, set that for Deny. If I block Driver Easy in there, would that not suffice to block, and so not need to play with the Hosts file? I might be able to get to this this afternoon. The only significant thing involved in it is the Hosts file. But I would prefer to use ZoneAlert as described to do the blocking, but will edit the Hosts file if necessary --please advise.

OK, I have downloaded the driver application and decompressed it. There are no instructions with it. It is the setup exe to install it, and the KG. That's all. You said to follow the instructions. All this provides is to install and serialize. Is that it?And block. Block first. Have you used this very one? I feel pretty uncomfortable running a Windows KG from unknown sources. Also, does the application have a crack in it? If not, why not just get it from the developer direct so no considerations of any malware added to it? I'll see if I can get the blocking done this eve. EDIT: Wait a minute. I know editing the Hosts file is in order to block. But you already sent me to Zone Alarm Security application to do that. I have that installed,and set to block outgoing connections manually -- which I am presuming will send up an alert that there is a connection, and allow me to bock it. I'm not sure that is working, I haven't had any alerts so far (not even after I installed and opened QuarkXpress, so maybe that is why that installation failed). But still, isn't that going to do what editing the Hosts file would do? If so, it is much preferred not to play with the Hosts file. EDIT2: OK, I have just been looking over Zone Alarm. I see it will not send p an alert, I have to add the applications to a list in Zone Alarm, and then say on each individual one how to handle it, allow, deny or ask. I had not done that with Quark, so maybe upon first opening, the crack was undermined. I will see after next startup if that is now working.

I think you're saying I can either edit my Registry key with the text you provided, or I can instead use the already edited key from the download link? I don't know that I have tried "everything." I tried what I found. I'm hoping you will have something I did not find, or something I did not understand so did not try. I don't even know if one of the function keys will turn on and off the ability to use keyboard shortcuts, or if there is a setting somewhere to do that. Might not be able to get to this until tomorrow. Maybe later today, but probably not until tomorrow. EDIT: Oh, I just discovered the heart button. Well, you certainly deserve a heart.

I see that. I presume that can get no driver other than offered by Windows or by the keyboard mgf? As I recall, I already checked Gateway, and I already had the most updated they offer. How does one edit the hosts file on Windows. I know how to do that via line commands on Mac. I don't expect to be able to get to this today, and probably not tomorrow. but by Saturday. But give feedback, since I already have checked the driver update via windows and then at Gateway itself (actually Gateway is owned by Acer), what does this application have to offer that would not already have been checked? A third party driver, if there is one, could be a problem. But I might already have accomplished what you are suggesting.

That is good to hear. I await your next golden suggestion. I researched on Google months back and tried various things until I hit a wall. So, maybe you are on the other side of that wall. I'm wondering if there is some odd setting somewhere in the OS, under settings or control panels of somewhere else, that might be causing this. I turned off various settings for privacy reasons even in the previous version of Win10. Sometimes those things do more than is obvious. But at this point,I don't even know what I turned off.

OK, Helpdesk. I would have thought that is for help with this Website. Got it. I just tried the first option. That sounds familiar, like I tried that many months back. I found two things under Keyboards, both HID-something, but I have only one keyboard. I uninstalled them both. And then restarted the machine. Upon restart, keyboard shortcuts still do not work. (Actually, its been so long since I've been able to use them, I actually forgetting what they are, but I retried all possible combination, they don't work.) Looked in Device Manager, it has two of those HID-something items back, for one keyboard. I guess its supposed to have two? I have no other keyboard hooked up, only the built-in one. So I tried the second option. But running it, I see that's just an alternate way to get to Device Manger to do the same thing. So, that did not work -- and I'm pretty sure I had tired it some months ago. Thanks. Any other ideas?

Thanks! I'll try Zone Alarm.

No responses in all this time, and I still can't use Quark. Hmm.

I recenlty upgraded my QuarkXpress 2015 to the latest version, v. 11.1.0.0. Ever since doing so, when I open it, if I try to open a new project, Quark just crashes. It freezes, gives me the option of whether to send a report to Quark, and regardless of my choice, it closes/crashes. The message it gives simply says, "Quark Xpress has encountered as issue and needs to close." I have tried downloading and installing the update anew, no difference. I tried running the Repair program provided in the installer, no change. I tried editing the license, putting in the original license number again, no change. This application worked fine until I did this upgrade. I'm not sure which version I was at before I updated, possibly at the first version. I originally got the application, and how to activate, on this Website. I'm using Windows 8.1, with 4 GB RAM, 2.20 GHz Intel Pentium processor, 64-bit system. Can anyone tell me what to do to get this working again? If you can't open a new project, you can't do anything! Other menu items I select do seem to work. I don't see anywhere in the application that might say it is activated. But I did activate it. It does not indicate it is trial anywhere.

I want to clone my entire internal Windows hard drive to an external hard drive, and have it bootable and fully function on the external. I am not looking to mearly create a recovery drive, I want everything not simply the recovery partition. I have been getting things needed lined up to do this. A few days ago, I found via the Help menu how to do this - but for the life of me, I have just spent hours and can't find how to do that now. All I can find no matter what search terms I use is how to make a recovery drive. That simply a 16 GB volume, but I saw a few days ago that to do the entire hard drive on my machine, it woudl be 98 GB, and I now have an external hard drive to handle that, with a 110 GB volume to do it to. I plan to go up to Windows 10 at some point, and I want a full Windows 8.1 hard drive on the side, and want to be able to erase Windows 10 and clone back over from the external drive - so I have everything there. I otherwise have no install disk, so if I go up to Windows 10 and don't want it, I can't get back to 8.1 -- the problem of downloading OSs, or using only what the machine came with, instead of having a full install disk. In Mac, you have to actually clone if you want it bootable. I don't know if that is or is not necesary in Windows, maybe simply copying is all that is needed, or maybe I have to do it with a disk image, or??? (Mac has invisible files that are necessary to the boot that do not come over in a copy, you must do a clone to get them.) Anyway, how do I accomplish this on Windows 8.1? I have now gotten the hard drive all set up, parttioned, formatted, ready to go - and I can't go. Thanks for any help.

EDIT 2: Alert. EX Gig download and the installer are both putting malware on the computer. I got an alert from Windows Defender when it downlaoded, and again right after I opened the installer - which started installing something even before I proceeded to install the application, which I then did not install. Next time I tried to use my Firefox browser, I could not get on the Internet, and it tried to get me to install yet something else. I did a full Restore to get rid of it. But beware of this software. So, I'm back to the original question: How can I clone my entire hard drive over to an external hard drive? I did see something a few days ago where there is a function built into the OS to do that - but I can't find it any mre. I am not talking of making a restore disk, that is merely the small restore volume, and I want eveyrting so I can clone back as wanted or needed to reinstall my OS. End Edit 2. OK, thank you joerooty. I'm getting that now. I will have to see if it will clone the statrtup drive itself. But I saw a way to do it a few days ago with the OS, something in the OS that provides for doing that, not just the recovery volume. How do I find that? That seems preferable. I can use this application you recommend if it will do the startup drive and if I can't find that stuff in the OS. I see I have to buy EZ Gig. So, I woudl still prefer to again find the pane in the OS that provides for cloning over the drive to an external drive. So ths Ez Gig might be a backup, but I would still prefer if someone could point me to where to find the pane in the OS to do it. Also, I see the website says: EZ Gig IV is only compatible with Apricorn's latest upgrade products, including DriveWire, EZ Upgrade, SATA Wire and Velocity Solo. So then does that reference to only their products mean it won't work with another external hard drive? AND, does it mean it will clone only to SATA?! Mine is a 320 GB external IDE drive! My internal is SATA. Thanks. EDIT 1: Gee, I just finished the download, and Windows Defender is immediately identifying Ex Gig as malware! I also found a forum where it says yes, you have to buy it for $25, and it also requires a SATA to USB cable! I just have a regular USB plug on one side of my cable, and the other side connects directly to the hard drive with a IDE connection. So, will this software for some reason clone ONLY to a SATA hard drive?!

How can I give my user account administrator privileges? I'm using Windows OS 8.1. Mine is the only user account on this laptop, but it appears it does not have administrator privileges. How can that be? I keep getting blocked from doing things by messages saying I must have administrative privileges. I can't find any way to get those privileges. I have been to Settings/Change PC Settings/Accounts. I am the only account listed there. I see no way to add administrator privleges to it. I see where I can add an account, but I stopped that when the first step was to give an e-mail address - that has nothing to do with making an account for this machine! I was going to see if I could create an administrator account - but if I'm not the administrator, surely I would not be able to anyway. If I am the administrator - and I must be -- then why do I keep getting blocked? I note, mine is a local account. It also does not have a password set up for it - and I don't even see any place to add a password on it, although I would rather not have one -- I'm just using this at home, and it is much easier without a password. My most immediate issue involves QuarkXpress 2015. I have installed it. I want to add the serial in order to activate it permanently. But when I click on "Edit License Code" in order to do so, it simply gives me a message reading: "You must have administrative privileges to run the QuarkXpress installer. Setup will now exit." It is already installed - so I don't know whay the message is talking about runing the installer. It simply gives that message and will not open the window. So, how can I check if my user account has administrative privileges, and how can I give it such privileges? Thanks for any help.

Thank you. However, that seems to miss the question. The questions are: *How do I confirm my user account is the administrator? And if it is not, how can I find the administrator account, as this is the only user account I find on this machine. *How do I make my user account the administrator? If I can't, then how do I make an administrator account, and without having to link it to a registered Microsoft account? *Is the issue that this user account is a local account, and it has no password set up? If so, what changes do I need to make, and how? The explanation given above seems to go to how to assign privileges to a particular application. That is not the issue here. The issue is the user account, not the application. Thanks. EDIT: OK, in looking into this more, perhaps you were on the mark, perhaps the issue was with the application. Although it can be explained and addressed far more simply than what is written above. In that case, the message given when I clicked on Edit License Code needed to be a lot more clear! The issue was not whether I was logged in as administrator. Instead, for some reason, I have to give administrator privileges to the application - which makes no sense to me. I found how to do so, and with that, I can now get into the window to Edit License Code! I went to the Quark application at C/Program Files/Quark/QuarkXpress 2015/QuarkXpress.exe. I right-clicked on it, and went to Properties. In Properties, I find in the Compatibility tab that there is a setting to "Run this program as an administrator." To change that setting, I have to click on Change Settings for all users. In there, I could click on "Run this program as an administrator." I clicked that check box, and then hit the Apply button. With that, and closing that window, I opened Quark, and yes, now I can get into the window for Edit License Code and do things there. That makes no sense to me since the application can't act as an administrator. I take it to be a backwards way of saying: "allow changes by an adminsitrator." If so, that is what it should say! So, I guess the application has to be given administrator priviledges. Odd.