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I tried that and it was worse. It made it so that I was not presented with a choice of users to pick from. It just showed the last user (counter-intuitively weird) so I was forced to log-in on that account (I am Administrator) and then go back into the reg editor and put it back to '0'. Phew! I...

On both my Windows 8.1 PC and my windows 10 (Home, 64-bit, Version 1803) Laptop I have three user accounts. The following problem affects both machines. Two of the accounts have passwords but the other account is for visitors and is named ‘Visitor’. I would like this ‘Visitor’ not to have a...

You haven't got "Caps Lock" turned on have you?

When you saved the image to your external hard drive the program you used to do this was able to see the hard drive in order to save to it. If you use the same program to restore the image then it should still be able to see the hard drive. Are you using the same program to restore as you did to...

Could your Guest account be one that you created and named it "Guest". If so then this is not the proper "Windows" Guest account. It will not have the restrictions that the Windows Guest account has and that may explain how it was able to be changed to an Administrator account. If this is the...

To add to my previous post see the following link: - Simple questions: What is the Guest account and how do you turn it on? | Digital Citizen This link says how the Guest account is very limited and it should not be possible to change its type to Admin. Check for viruses.

I know you said you cannot change the Guest account user type from Admin to Standard user but are you trying to change this from your own account or from within the the Guest account? Only the latter will work. It is strange that the Guest account was able to be changed to Administrator. This is...

To expand on Neemobeer's suggestion: - The first run of the "Disk clean-up" scan does not find files that have accumulated over months and years of Windows updates. These files are no longer needed but remain on the computer. To find these requires the following procedure: - 1. Tye "Disk...