account management

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...

Hi I want to lock down a user account so that the user is very limited on what they can see or do but I want the user account to remain part of the administrator group. Now I know how to do this via 'local group policy' within W7 but I want the ability to turn the restrictions to the user...

Hi All, I have administrator access but can not change the password on a user account. I have googled to find answers and can not find a valid answer. Any help would be appreciated. Sometimes I get a pop up message saying access denied, other times the password field is grayed out so that I...

I'm using Win 7, I have only one user name registered in the computer my login user name was changed to wrong name by external software, I can not find the way to enter as my original user? how can I change the name of the user name when logging in?

hello all. i recently installed diablo 3, and in the process of installing i somehow managed to pin a shortcut to my taskbar. this shortcut says "Battle.net Account Management". the shortcut works, and is actually a link to the battle.net login screen. HOWEVER... i cannot right click or drag on...

hi all new to the forums and need help. I am tired of my son downloading programs on my computer on his account so I disabled the admin privileges on his account. It was working cause he would call me down when the pop up box asking for my admin password and if I felt it was okay I would enter...

Hello everybody, First post hope this is the right area, A while back my mother and I thought it would be cool to make future users of her computer have a password. Have some research I found a method to make new and current accounts on her computer set up or have a password. Worked for a...

I installed Windows 7 last week and suddenly today when i logged on to windows 7 and went to user account to change password it said Password is incorrect Please retype.I was surprised since minutes Ago i logged on with the same password.Now, after i googled..some said to reboot and i did...

Hey guys, Is there any way i can thoroughly monitor an user account in windows 7? What the user has changed,what program has he opened,how much time has it run,when has he closed it,what other program has been he opened,......etc. and present the data in a logged format. Thanks, Arun

I'm setting up a semi public computer, but we want to limit it to a group of about 50 people. Can I give them each a standard account, username and password? Or is that too many users? I'd like to be able to log them separately so that they can be billed according to the time used. Any ideas...

it is purported that creating a separate admin account then setting your admin acct to a std user helps with warding of malware. In order to do any admin tasks u must enter a PW. The purpose of UAC is to help ward off malware. If set at default, in order to perform admin functions u must...

Hi there, we've got Windows 7 Professional and we have set up a standard account for the kids. I don't know how to limit the software they can use in their account. For example we have skype but we don't want them to have that in their account (which they do at the moment). How can we change...

I start playing Star Trek Online not long ago. For the first day or so I could not log on with my Perfect World Entertainment account. I could not understand why, I keep getting invalid password, when I can log on to Perfect World Internatinal just fine. I started thinking that it could be my...

Hi I am a dad who wants to give his rebellious pre-teen daughter some control on her laptop, like update iTunes or install games, but she cannot do such as a Standard User. I initially setup her laptop with both of us (dad and daughter) as admin users. I wanted to be an admin user to help...

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...

Hiya- I have inherited a netbook from a deceased relative. FINALLY got the password. Running Win7. My relative's name is the only user name and owners name on the computer. I would like to use it without being constantly reminded of him. Is it possible to change the main name without a total...

I'm selling a Dell Vostro 320, OS Windows XP and would like to know how to remove personal info. I created a new administrator account and deleted the old one where the personal info was stored. Is this enough or do I need to do more? Thanks.

when i got this computer back after a reinstall, the only account was "owner". i changed it to "james", but it's still defaulting everything to c:\users\owner instead of c:\users\james. how do i change this? *** FIGURED IT OUT. ***

I was a little insecure about losing my files at one time and I created a 2nd account with Administrator priviliges. And I have the Guest Account active. Now I always log into the same account that supposedly has the administrator privileges yet at times I get a message that I need to contact...

Decribes the four User Account Control settings in Windows 7. More...