OPENING COMMAND PROMPT WHERE ITS BANNED

Locate and Unhide Hidden Rescue Partition

• 1 Access the Diskpart command prompt. Acer stores custom eRecovery passwords on your computer in PQService, a hidden rescue partition. Locating this partition requires accessing the Diskpart utility from the command prompt. Diskpart allows you to run a scan on your hard drive and bring up hidden partitions. To access Diskpart, go to Start and type "cmd" in the search bar to bring up the black command prompt box, and then type "diskpart" at the prompt to switch to a Diskpart prompt. Depending on your computer, a new command prompt may open with the Diskpart prompt.
  
• 2 Scan your computer configuration. At the Diskpart prompt, type "rescan" to run a system configuration check. When the scan finishes, you will receive a message informing you the scan is complete. At the command prompt, type "list disks" to bring up available disks and then type "select disk 0."
  
• 3 Locate the hidden partition. At the command prompt, type "list partition" to view a list of partitions on your disk. Locate the partition with no name and a size of approximately 10GB. At the command prompt, type "select partition (number)."
  
• 4 Determine the partition type and unhide the partition. The hidden PQService partition will be either a type 27 or a type 12 partition. If the partition is type 27, unhide it by typing "set id=07 override," and if a type 12, then unhide it by typing "set id=0B" at the command prompt.
  
• 5 View the PQService partition. Return to the disk containing PQService by typing "select disk 0" at the command prompt, and then type "list volume" to view the contents of the disk. PQService will be visible in the list, preceded by a number. Type "select volume (number)" and then assign PQService a new drive letter so you will be able to open and view it from your computer interface window. At the command prompt, type "assign letter=f."
  

Reset eRecovery Password

• 1 Open PQService. Navigate to the drive containing PQService. Find the file "aimdrs.dat." Right-click on the file and select "Open with" and then "Textpad," "Notepad" or another text editor you prefer.
  
• 2 Open the file and find the password. Open the file with your text editor and locate the eRecovery password. Look for a line that reads, "Password=password name," "Hint=the password hint." Write down the password and close the file.
  
• 3 Open eRecovery using the recovered password and follow the instructions to create a new password.
  

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Hi,

I'm Ben and -- hopefully -- I can provide some meaningful assistance.

Please follow these steps:

1. Reboot your computer in the Safe mode with command prompt.
2. Once Windows loaded, command prompt (black window) opens. Type notepad and press Enter.
3. A notepad window opens. Type the following text into notepad:
4. [Version]
5. Signature="$Chicago$"
6. Provider=Myantispyware.com
7. [DefaultInstall]
8. AddReg=regsec
9. [regsec]
10. HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System,DisableRegistryTools,0x00000020,0
11. HKLM, Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon,Shell,0x00000020,"Explorer.exe"
12. Save this as fix.inf to your Desktop (remember to select Save as file type: All files in Notepad). Close Notepad.
13. In the command prompt type Explorer.exe and Press Enter. Windows Explorer opens. Locate the fix.inf, click right button and select Install. Close Windows Explorer.
14. In the command prompt type shutdown -r and press Enter. Your computer will be rebooted.

Hi lwoodward...
Try this solution, you may want to print to paper for a hard copy
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Please follow these steps:

reboot your computer in the Safe mode with command prompt.

Once Windows loaded, command prompt (black window) opens. Type notepad and press Enter.

A notepad window opens. Type the following text into notepad:

[Version]
Signature="$Chicago$"
Provider=Myantispyware.com

[DefaultInstall]
AddReg=regsec

[regsec]
HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System,DisableRegistryTools,0x00000020,0
HKLM, Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon,Shell,0x00000020,"Explorer.exe"

Save this as fix.inf to your Desktop (remember to select Save as file type: All files in Notepad). Close Notepad.

In the command prompt type Explorer.exe and Press Enter. Windows Explorer opens. Locate the fix.inf, click right button and select Install. Close Windows Explorer.

In the command prompt type shutdown -r and press Enter. Your computer will be rebooted and your icons should reappear.

Hello

1. Open a notepad, and copy the following commands and then paste them into the opened Notepad window.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"Wallpaper"=-

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"Wallpaper"=-

2. After the above commands have been pasted, please close the Notepad window. Choose "Save" when you are prompted to save the file. When the "Save As" window pops up, please click "Browser folders", click Desktop, change the file name to register.reg and click Save.

3. Go to Desktop, you will find the file.
Before you you run this file, please make a backup for your registry first, you can refer to the following link:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Back-up-the-registry


After that, you can double click register.reg to run the commands that have been pasted.
In addition, please uncheck the setting in the Ease of Access Center.
1. Click Start, Control Panel, Ease of Access, Ease of Access Center.
2. Click Make the computer easier to see, Under Make things on the screen easier to see, deselect the option:
Remove background images (where available).
3. Select Save.
After that, you should be able to change the desktop background now.
I hope this would help you.

1st Trick
1- Open the calculator
2- Click Help
3- Click Help Topics
4- Click the Icon at the top left corner, the one with a yellow question mark
5- Click Jump to URL

2nd Trick
1- Open the command prompt
2- Ping the website you want to unblock by typing "ping www.website.com" without the ""
3- Copy the IP next to "Reply From"
4- Paste the IP into your address bar.

3rd Trick
1- Open command prompt and notepad.
2- Write "ping localhost" without the "" into the command prompt.
3- Copy the IP into the notepad file, hit tab and write localhost
4- Ping the website you want to unblock in the command prompt, as in "ping www.website.com" without the ""
5- Copy the IP of the site into the notepad file, hit tab and write the link to the site, without http://, as in "www.google.com"
6- Hit enter and repeat step 5, should look like this

00.00.0.00 localhost
000.000.00.00 www.website.com
000.000.00.00 www.website.com

7- Save the notepad file into your desktop as "host." with the "", if it wont let you just leave it as host. with the "."
8-Go to My Computer>Your Hardrive>WINDOWS>system32>drivers>ect and drag the notepad file into that folder

Your Done !

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