account management

Hi, I accidentally deleted a corrupt user account in windows 7 before creating a new user account. I chose not to delete the files, thankfully. The files are there in the c: drive under the deleted user. My question is this; how can I bring those files over to my new user account? Any help...

I'm on a net work that is shared. I have recently noticed event logs of another user logging on to my laptop. The first log on used my credentials and a name similar to mine. The next one was of that person changing the credentials and authority of that log on. After that there quit a few logs...

I have a laptop that I set up as normal when I installed win 8, with my account as the only one. It has some personal files and data that I don't mind losing but I don't want to leave them on the laptop. I want to give it to my daughter and put her on as the main computer user/administrator and...

I purchased Office 365 (student) and I am having problems accessing it on my Windows cell phone. When I select Office 365 I receive a message that I must setup the program. When I enter my e-mail address I get a message that an “Account already exists” for my e-mail address on my phone. I have...

Over the week-end something strange happened to one of our Windows 7 systems. It worked fine on Friday, was shut down for the week-end. When turned on this morning everything appeared normal. There are six user accounts set up on the system. No matter which one you choose to log in to, it...

I purchased Office 365 (student) and I am having problems accessing it on my Windows cell phone. When I select Office 365 I receive a message that I must setup the program. When I enter my e-mail address I get a message that an “Account already exists” for my e-mail address on my phone. I...

As in win7 I got a super admin account, and a normal working account. When installing win8 I had to enter the username of the administrator (mine), then I created my working account (also mine). To distinguish betrween the 2 I would like to call my administrator account 'administrator'. How to...

I setted the time for my kids to be able to go on at 12:00 everyday but everytime they try to log on it doesnt let them and they have to wait till 3:00 for some reason to than be able to go on.I tried checking everywhere but couldnt find a solution may be someone out there knows a way to fix it...

Sorry to bother everyone here, but it seems like MS is requiring users to enter, and/or reset, their password every week now. I remember, a couple years ago, when MS DIDN'T require a person to change their password ever week. Now, I need to login 10-12 times per day, I need to change my...

Hi I created a local account in Windows 8 Enterprise 64-bit and then, via the User Accounts applet, I have renamed this account and I restarted the computer. Now, I have logged into this account and I switched to my Microsoft account and I restarted the system. So, I logged on to this...

Been using SkyDrive for quite some time and recently installed MS Office 2013 professional which has SkyDrive Pro. Does this mean that I have two SkyDrive accounts available for storage?

OK following on from my other thread "Catastrophe" I have a few more questions. I have read many threads on re-creating an account which, in nearly all cases, detailed the following; 1. Create a new account in the normal manner. 2. Login with the new account to create the files. 3. Copy...

Hi Today I was just looking through stuff, and I came upon my users list. Why do I see so many Users listed and can I safely remove some of them. I don't even know where these come from? Link Removed Link Removed What are these accounts that say Account Unknown? It would seem...

Hello everyone, i am running windows 8 pro and having a problem: If I shutdown (or restart) the pc from an account, then when the pc get turned on, windows want to login into that account automatically . For example : if i have 2 accounts named "ABC" and "XYZ" (both without password)...

Hey, i have windows 7 ultimate with original Administrator account enabled and have a password i have another administrator account that i have created and does not have a password i have made all the necessary changes in policies to enable UAC and in the user account also. The problem is that...

How can I change the forum supplied password to another? I cnt find the user control panel!

Sir I have Win7 professional pc with three partitions c:,d:,e:. I have two user accounts: Administrator and Admin. When i log into Administrator account, my saved files don't show up on the desktop although i can access those files manually through the path c:\>users>Administrator>desktop. I...

Hi. I've just registered to this forum because I've issued a problem on my Windows 7 computer. Well, this is what happened. I was making a new user on my computer for one of my family members. I had three users already made, and active. So this was the fourth one. When I made it, and logged into...

Here is what happened. I went to administrator tools > Computer management > Local users and groups > Users. Now I double clicked on the main user account. Then I switched to the 'member of' tab. I deleted the things whatever present over there. Then I restarted the system. Now I can...

Hi guys! I was wondering if anyone could help me with an issue i'm having at work. The problem that keeps occurring is that, they log on, then it automatically logs them off. I've seen other people have had this problem and it has been down to a reg key, but i've checked the registry and all...