account management

I am/have tried to create a new user account, specifically to take the place of a suspected corrupt user account (per MS Moderator posts re Excel not responding repeatedly when copying). I have looked around the web, MS support sites, and read posts all over a couple of forums and am trying to...

Computer went automatically to sleep, and never came back. Had to shutdown... profile got corrupted and logged as "temporary profile". So I created 2 new accounts, logged to one of them, copied all my old things to the other new account and logged to that account. The problem is that all my...

Couldn't remember my password, used the password reset and now when i go to change my password back to something i can remember it tells me i cant use the password because i've used it within the last year. If you make me change it to something i'm not going to remember, i'm just going to...

Windows 7 Ultimate with 2 users accounts: "admin" and "simple user" How to grant to the "simple user" the right to install fonts without giving it administrative privileges ?

Im getting kind of frustrated with all of these authorization checks. Im the only account on my computer and am the administrator. I am also not on a router and dont have wireless on my computer so i dont really have to worry about someone getting on my computer at my home. Now im trying to...

Hi i just bought windows home premium for my family i made three user accounts on my computer one for my self and two for my sons. I am pretty good with computers but because windows 7 is a little different i need some help. Lets get to my Question. I want to make my kids accounts: be...

I have three accounts set up on my windows 7 machine: Sys_admin, Bil, and Myra. Sysadmin has sysadmin privileges, Bill and Myra do not. While i'm logged in as Bill, win7 seems to put some documents in sys_admin's documents library and some in my Bill documents library. Should I just remove...

I am experiencing problems running Windows 7 (desktop background is frozen, gadgets and utilites files are missing etc.) yet when I create a new user account then log onto that, Windows 7 runs fine (fix suggested by Cybercore). My question is, can I simply transfer settings and files from the...

My installation of Windows Live Mail automatically checks for and retrieves email even though I have set it NOT to do that. In Tools - Options - General I unchecked "Send and receive messages at startup" and "Check for new messages every [time is grayed out]" Yet the program still...

I paid to put a post on to this website (apparently you don't have to pay, but I didn't know that before). But then I was notified that my month long subscription would not cancel on it's own, but would rather renew itself month after month for one year. I don't want that, I want to end it now...

Hello! I am completely new in windows 7 and I come straight from XP, so I have no Vista and thus no administrator issues experience. I installed win7 ultimate 32bit. How can I disable all user accounts and leave only one (mine) as administrator? In my opinion this administrator thing is...

I'm unable to delete a user administrator account that was created by a program on Hiram's boot disk. The user account was created to delete a password on another administrator account. I can run 'control userpasswords2' and delete the account, I can delete the account the normal way in User...

I bought a brand new laptop a week ago. It was loaded with windows 7 professional. When I switched on for the first time it didnt have any user account. So I have created an account for myself as administrator user account. Say 2 or 3 days back I have downloaded GTalk and other softwares and...

I'd like to request/suggest you do away with the 180 password re-use limitation. Forcing people to pick a new password is just a recipe for forcing them to always pick a new password since they (me) wont remember it and will use the password reset, at which point they'll have to pick a yet even...

This question or a similar one has ben asked on here and other places but no one seems to have any idea. So this will probably go unsolved like many other windows 7 issues but here goes. I'm happy to award 8 internets to anyone who has any ideas about resolving this issue. Have a windows 7 pro...

I've tried searching but not found the answer. In 7, I now find my user name for various sites are not saved even though I click save. I use Firefox as my browser. This never happened with XP. Am I missing something?

So this is my story. I got myself a pc with win 7 I started the pc didn't need to set the time or anything all was already there. So it was basicly turn on pc and start doing what you want. Then the next time i started up the pc, windows 7 was updating but my battery ran out so it shut down...

If I install a program under one user profile, how do I make that program accessible by all users? Example: I have installed Google Chrome as my browser under my admin. profile. But I can't seem to find or use the program when I'm logged in under my wife's profile? Anybody know how to fix this...

Hi, all.. got a problem, i've got 2 user accounts on my Windows 7 x64, Today when i done a reboot i've suddenly got only one account showing at the welcome screen and a new item called "Other User" with no picture, when i click this i can enter the 2nd user account details and i logon ok, I just...

Hi there! I have a huge problem. When I was installing Windows 7 Pro I left Administrator password blank. I used it few times without passord. Now I need to use it again but there is a password that I did not set. Why I got this issue? Only me use this PC. Got any idea how remove this...