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  1. King Mustard

    Windows 11 Unable to access local network share - not sure what account and/or password to use

    I have two PCs in this room, one called ELLIOT-PC and one called ELLIOT-SERVER. ELLIOT-SERVER has a Local Account profile called Elliot, that I use to share folders. ELLIOT-PC has a Microsoft Account profile (Hotmail). When I try to navigate to \\elliot-server in Windows Explorer on...
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    Windows 10 Win10 admin problems

    I have everything running smoothly on my standard account but the admin account is problematic. --When I download a photo and try to open it, I get a message: Invalid value for registry -- photo will not open. I ran a sfc scan and nothing came up as being corrupt. So no solution. --The apps...
  3. R

    How to Restrict a Windows Service Account to Reading/Writing from a Specific Folder

    Hi, New here but not new to Windows. I have a software requirement that I am surprised I can't seem to find an answer for. I have written a Windows Service. I have created an installer for this service. This installer (when run as Administrator) creates a new user, provides the user with...
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    Windows 7 running Mahjong Titans only runs using "as administrator"

    I have Win 7 SP1 on a Lenovo Y580. The problem I am having is that I can only run some games, such as Mahjong Titans if I right click the Mahjong Icon and select Run as Administrator. My account is an administrator account. Any suggestions?
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    Windows 7 Downloaded program not available to second user account

    I am setting up a brand new laptop with Windows 7. I have not used Win 7 before. I have set up two user accounts, both "administrator" accounts. I have downloaded Google Chrome using one of those accounts, but when logged on as the second user, I cant see the Chrome shortcut, or find the program...
  6. bobpullen

    Windows 7 Remote Desktop problems affecting a specific Windows user

    Bit if an odd one I'm hoping to get some help with... I'm running Win 7 Ultimate x64 and have been for some time now on this particular machine. I use remote desktop to access the machine from elsewhere and it's always worked fine up until recently (late March/Early April). There was a single...
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    Windows 7 a few programs don't run on admin account but only on 2nd account

    hi everyone as this is my first thread I run Windows 7 on a Sony Vaio, and never had issues. recently I had this situation where some software doesn't run properly on my main account (admin) but only in a secondary account I had created the software is installed without problems, but then...
  8. B

    Windows 7 Windows administrator user account help

    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...
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    Windows 7 Problems with Joining a Domain as Non Administrator

    Joined the domain as the administrator in Windows 7 in my initial setup of the PC with no problem. When I tried to log in to the domain as one of the users on the domain to set up the PC on the end users side, I could not log in. I received the following error message: "You cannot log on...
  10. M

    Windows 7 Changing profile affects other profiles.

    OK I'm sure there's a simple answer to this, but I can't find it. When I delete icons on my own desktop, it also takes them off the other users profiles. I have an administrator account. It takes them off the other administrator account as well as the other standard user profiles. Can anyone...
  11. W

    Windows 7 Creating a Backup User on W7 ?

    Hi, I want to give another user (bkupuser1) the SeSecurityPrivilege like Administrator has. First I added the user in the Backup Operators group, using lusrmgr.msc program. However when I started a CMD prompt as the user and did: whoami /all I could see the privilege was not granted...
  12. D

    Windows 7 Unable to resize/move/close ('X' greyed out) windows

    Hi, I installed 7RC from MS, all went fine, I've not done anything unusual in the setup, all updates are installed, graphics ok etc. I created the initial account admin account, then from that a second admin. Changed to that admin account, set it up etc, and created 3 other Standard accounts...
  13. james.harding

    Windows 7 XP File Permissions

    Hello world! I have been using XP and Windows 7 for a while now, and have been keeping my media all on my XP partition. Windows 7 added it's permission settings to the "My Documents" folder of my XP installation just fine, and was working without a hitch. Yesterday, I tried to share the XP "My...
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    Windows 7 Admin acount no longer has admin privileges?

    Hi. The main (and only account) I have been using since the first beta came out had administrator privileges. Today when I booted up I noticed that my account could no longer do things that are associated with an admin account, such as installing certain programs and writing to certain...
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    Windows Vista Hey i have problam with swithing the langs

    hey i have Windows Vista Professional 6.0 (Build #6000) RTM and im trying to change the lang from eng to my local with alt+shift but there are no changing but when i do alt+shift at the login welcome its does change and when i use to open program that need admins rights that...
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