account lockout

Did a clean re-install of Windows 8, followed by recovery of my files and settings via Windows Easy Transfer. Windows 8 started just fine, but I got a message in the desktop that it wanted me to enter the old password before it would "unlock" my files. This went well, except for one of my lesser...

I on parental controls and a message appears that One of administrator account has no password then then i click on a standard user then i click ok but a message appear then do you want to force to have a password then i click yes. now when i log off the user. the admin account is locked up and...

I've recently installed Windows 7 (Professional) on some machines, and am finding that the accounts I set up on them are getting locked out frequently, independently of any failed password attempts from the users. Possibly relevant details: -These are stand-alone machines that have never been...

While doing some system maintenance I discovered that I had an extra user account. After deleting it I did a search and found that it had most likely been silently created by the copy protection on some game I had installed. I don't mind if a game has copy protection on it, but I don't like that...

Fixes a locked account issue that occurs after you create or change multiple scheduled tasks in Windows 7, in Windows Server 2008 R2, in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008. When this issue occurs, Event ID 4625 is logged in the Security log. More...