account management

In an exciting development for users of Microsoft's popular communication platform, the new "unified" Microsoft Teams application for Windows 11, Windows 10, and macOS has officially launched after a successful preview phase that began back in March 2024. This latest version is designed to...

In a significant update for Windows and Mac users, Microsoft has officially launched its unified Teams app, streamlining communication across work, personal, and educational accounts. Previously available only as a preview, this update brings every component of the Teams ecosystem under one...

Microsoft offers different types of accounts to cater to various user needs, with Microsoft accounts tailored for personal use and work or school accounts designed for organizational use with Microsoft 365 for business. Understanding the distinctions between these account types is crucial for...

The Windows non-security preview update for May 2024, labelled as KB5037853 with OS Builds 22621.3672 and 22631.3672, is now available for users. This update brings a host of new features and improvements aimed at enhancing the user experience on Windows 11 across different editions. Here is a...

Introduction: In the latest update for Windows 11, Builds 22621.3520 and 22631.3520 have been pushed to the Windows Insider Release Preview Channel, offering a variety of enhancements. This release is tailored for Windows 11 versions 22H2 and 23H2, representing significant advancements and...

Hello to anyone reading this. Thanks for your interest. I'm trying to help the aunt of a friend of mine. She doesn't remember her account password (I know) and would like to get back into her account. There's a lot of back story to this that I won't bore you with. The computer is a desktop Asus...

Hello all, As the title suggests I'm looking to restrict all access to basically everything except certain applications like games. Also I'd like to know if that may affect the game? Like will it run normally with no issue since everything is restricted on this user? Another question if this...

I'm trying to use Nearby Sharing for the first time with my Android phone. Although I'm signed into my Windows account as an administrator, the Nearby Sharing page demands that I sign into an old work account that I've not had access to in years. How do I change that to be my Windows account?

I am finally looking for a replacement for the ancient Windows Live Mail program and I am completely amazed that apparently email client programs have gotten so much WORSE in the last decade. The first replacement that I tried was the nonsense that Windows includes in Win 10 as the so-called...

I have three email accounts and I want to tell all my contacts that I will be using just one. What is the best way to go about that?

My Win 10 boots to the Admin account and I have to navigate from there to my private account. How can I make it boot directly to my private account?

Dear all, I am looking to clone programs etc from Windows "regular user account" to "administrator account". Basically i want to log with administrator account and have everything exactly the way i have with the user account i use now. The reason for moving to administrator account is because...

Hi, I have service account in AD environment, i want to add into GMSA and is it possible to convert service account into GMSA.

Hi ladies and gents, I am new here and currently struggling with a digital certificate that I had installed and later removed. It allows to login to a website without entering any login information. I removed it because I no longer want access to that website yet whenever i got to the website...

I can't log into my e-mail address on my laptop because I let my wife enter her e-mail on my pc to use it. She did this because she couldn't perform some important functions on her phone. The pc 's OS is Windows 10 Pro and the browser is Firefox

I added work account on my home PC so I can check my email and whatnot and now that I'm not with that company anymore it seems impossible to remove that account. I get a warning every time I log into windows that work account is not good, but there's no "Remove" button when I go there. I found...

I'm leaving my job of six years in about 10 days and I need some guidance. We use Windows 8.1 and there was no special account attached to it when I was hired. I signed in to my personal account and have been using it here at work for the past five years. It dawned on me after I gave notice that...

I am looking to change the user information, email account without having to setup and new user and lose what's already installed and configured for the current user. Is this possible? ADDED: The computer account currently is - [email protected] and I want it to be [email protected] Thanks...

Every time I temporarily install Anydesk, it installs a sshd server. This also creates a new user account. After I un-install Anydesk, my W7 starts requiring me to click on a single User button to finish booting. How do you stop this? I am the only user on my machine. Before installing...

Revision Note: V1.0 (December 12, 2017): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information regarding security settings for the AD DS (Active Directory Domain Services) account used by Azure AD Connect for directory synchronization. This advisory...