Here's quickly. I could go on forever because I cannot see your computer. I hope when you said you removed your firewall antivirus etc that 1. it was not a windows program ? 2. all you did was disable it. Don't panic, if one of you can access the files then they are not lost unless you have panicked and fiddled more than you should.
Firstly,start up in your husbands user account and then go to C:\Windows\Users\Yourname(not his)See if you can open it first. If you can, good. I would save everything in your Users account befor proceeding. If not, right click, open properties and open security tab.Check top box and see if Administrators(computername\Administrators) is listed. if yes make sure all the boxes are ticked against allow below. if not ticked press edit and tick them all,press OK. Now press advanced, click owner tab, see who is owner. If anything beside administrators or your husbands name, click edit,if you do not see your husbands name or administrators click other users or groups,click advanced,click find now and navigate to your husbands name or administrators computername, highlight,click OK, click OK again. Highlight one of the names picked and click OK again. THis will tell you who is now the owner, click OK again. Go to edit again, then add and go through all I said befor adding the names of Administrators and your husbands, you also if its there. Make sure all the allow boxes are ticked.Click yourself all the way …
This is a try in a hurry. Get Boot132 ( you must have access to another computer or you wouldn't be on here eh!) and burn it. It is an iso. This should be able to get you into windows. Then get easy BSD or another boot manager and fix the MBR. It will rewrite or repair for you.There are other ways around but this first of top of my head.Boot132 has saved my bacon many times. Good Luck.
When you put something in the startup file it will start when windows starts ie: you have new program that might do something pretty or usefull on you desktop and you want it to start when you start automatically when windows opens your desktop for you. Then you put it in the startup folder. If you have a program that has put itself in there and you don't want to see it at startup pull it out. It's only a shortcut to the program and can be deleted.
Yes you can put your ProgramsFiles on another hdd or partition. As you have already reformated your hdds (windows will reformat it anyway when you reinstall)reinstall your win7 os. You can install it to the small 37g hdd but keep in mind if you use alot of programs,save a lot of docs, photos,music or downloads and use the internet a lot your ProgramData and in Users your AppData File will become heavy. Therefore consider using your 1.5tb hdd for your Program and also moving Docs etc to seperate partitions on there also. I think it would be wiser to put your main os on the 160g hdd and later shrink it down a bit to give you another partition for other stuff or as spare space. Use one of the 37g hdds to make a second install of win7 or clone your new install so that you have access to the main os if needed. After install and you have created the new partitions on 2nd hdd open your registry (run-regedit) and go to HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion and change CommonFilesDir and ProgramFilesPath to your NEW Programs path. Restart and from then on all you newly installed programs will go into the new Programs partition. To change Docs etc to new locations go to Users (you) and bring up the properties on each file you want to move. Open the location tab and navigate to the partition you have setup. Answer OK to all and from then on all of your files will …
Simply pasting into cd/dvd will not set your iso up to make it bootable. Use a burning software, most will burn an iso to disc these days. Make sure you sellect the burn iso disc selection. Windows 7 can burn an iso disc, see their help file otherwise is you don't use another disc burning program there are a few free ones around. Good Luck. I have found Boot132 to be very helpfull. follow all instructions and you should be fine. Only problem may be drivers for your hardware. If you run into trouble search the internet for them ( in Macs they are called KEXTs) or the instructions on how to change the ones you have.A tip. Don,t try to put it on the same hdd as windows, Macs like to have the front running on the hdd and may stop you from booting into windows. Make sure you back up and backup your windows partition if you have stuff you don't want to loose. Don,t be missled, it's not as hard as you think and very rewarding. Afterwards get a program called ireboot from neosmart technologies. Makes booting into another os from windows easy.Good Luck.
You can also go to start menu press run and enter regedit. when registry opens hilight computer then go to file - export. save the registry somewhere where you will find it again easily and wait for it to be saved.This is in case you need to reinstall the registry. Not a bad idea to set a restore point as well befor continuing. Now highlioght computer again in registry , go to Edit - Find and type in Photoshop. Press enter and then delete anything to do with photoshop, ONLY PHOTOSHOP. press the F3 key to make it easie to keep looking for photoshop entries. When finished restart and all ref to photoshop will be gone. Except off course if you have left anything in explorer, but the important bits will be gone and you can reinstall completely. Good Luck.
I can only reiterated what you have been advised re using MacDrive. It is a great help on drives that are formatted for Mac only. Believe microsoft are going to have wiondows be able to read mac drives in new win8. hope the rummor is true. Should you have both windows,linux and mac os and wish to access files from all os then have as an externall or internall hdd (hdds) and or seperate partitions, formatted to fat32 to hold all your documents, photos, music etc. and not keep them with the os partitions. You can then access, add, delete change etc to your hearts delight from any os. Good luck.