account management

Box HP-Pavilion OS Win 7 Home Basic Ver. 6.1.7600 32Bit BIOS American Megatrends 5.11 Sound Realtek High Definition Audio Modem HUAWEI Mobile Connect - 3G Modem CPU Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E6500 @ 2.93GHz, 2936 Mhz I am trying to find out how to keep my Broadband...

Gidday Thanks for dropping in to give me a helping hand. I have a son who is crazy about starcraft 2 and COD spending way to much time gaming. As a would be responsible parent I decided to limit his gaming time by setting up time limits through parental controls in windows 7 ultimate. After...

Two users Turn on computer user #1 starts normal Switch to user #2 50% of times logs on as temporary profile Must shutdown and log on again. I've posted this before and have never gotten any help

Can either of these be changed (if there is even a display name)? Or is there a way I can make my name look different inside the actual threads? Second, if I don't like my username and I can't change it, could I just make another account and stop using this one? Thanks.

Hi. My PC have two user accounts: Admin (Administration) and Guest (Standard). i sat time restrictions for Guest account. then, for testing, i restarted my pc and tried to log on with Guest account at certain time. but it showed me this error: "Your account has time restrictions that prevent...

Hello all, I am dealing with more of an annoyance than a serious problem. When I start up I recv. a msg stating that I am not logged on as an administrator. I then have to switch users at the start menu and then no more pop up and I do have administrative capabilities.I am not that computer...

hi, i hope :pray: i came to the right place with my question and that someone can help me.:confused: i did'nt do anything specific to make it happen, but all of a sudden i can't acces all those "my" files in my documents anymore, you know "my picture" "my music", all of those files. the icon is...

Hi I have a basic networking problem that I don’t really understand as I don’t know much about win 7. I have recently re-built a win2k3 R1 server and can’t connect to a win7 ultimate desktop anymore when I could previously. I can connect from win 7 to the server and see shared directories...

Hello , I would like the log on process to mirror the classic old login process so I have used GP editor to force Ctrl+Alt+Del and also to hide access points for user switching .. so now when I login I do have to do the 3 finger salute, then I get a screen that has the 2 users...

On the upper right of the homepage, I saw my name displayed, as I was signed in with my Gmail account...here's the weird part. It had my name displayed the old way I typed it years ago, so I wanted to change that. When I changed my name under my Google Account settings...it no longer shows my...

Since i use an ASUS motherboard, i need to keep EPU-4 engine working all the time (it regulates the system consumption) But i created an account for my sister, then i locked mine with a password, and now everytime she logs in, the epu asks for my password (im the admin, shes an user), so i dont...

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When I tuned on my band new computer for the first time I created one user account for both myself and my wife. We then decided to create separate accounts for each of us. Creating my wife's separate account was easy. After she logged on for the first time a new home folder (under the User...

I do not know how I got a second admin account with my name probably i was doing something in a windows program and their i gave admin rights to my first account, now i cannot delete this new account i searched how to geek and according to that the delete account is not where it should be it...

Having a bit of a problem here. I used the Offline NT registry editor at Offline NT Password & Registry Editor to elevate a normal user account to admin, and now I cannot change it from admin to normal user. I inputted the following cmds in command line: net localgroup administrators CompAdmin...

I am the sole user of a netbook and have no password to access my windows account (never used a computer with multiple accounts) The Windows user screen pops up about every 10 minutes and I have to click on my profile pic in order to return to the screen I was viewing. I have no screen...

I'm experiencing something of an extraordinary problem (at least from what I'm used to). I have two primary accounts on my computer. When i make changes to my account --account A-- (the wallpaper, for example) the same thing occurs on the other account --account B--. There's also things like...

Link Removed due to 404 ErrorOK, fine, "hostage" may be a bit of hyperbole. However, right at this moment, Bank of America is presenting me with a take-it-or-leave-it proposition: Agree to our "Electronic Communications Disclosure" - all 2,127 words; three densely packed printed pages - or...

Can someone set me straight and clear up a question I have regarding the Windows 7 local user "Administrator". I have seen both here and elsewhere on the internet, some folks attributing some type of special authoratative privledges associated with this account. And that because microsoft has...

How do i give myself Administrator privaleges on a guest account ! I am trying to acquire full control and turn my guest account into an admin account ! Any EASY way of acquiring such a task ? The OS in question is a Vista