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My elderly dad's machine got updated from Win7 to Win10 without me anticipating it, and it brought a raft of issues that I'm having to deal with, but I'm just going to focus on one of them for this thread: I had TWO user accounts set up on the machine under Win7, the one that was originally...

When I go to Control Panel and click on User Accounts there is a user named CAG, but when I go to drive C and click on Users CAG does not appear. However there is an account named Owner that appears to contain all of CAG's sub-accounts. Therefore, I tried to rename the Owner account to CAG but...

Hi. I'm on the account settings, and the link to "Sign into a microsoft account" isn't working from the menu. Any suggestions?

Hello I signed up for this on Instagram thinking it would be ok. Link Removed But now its always having me tag random people in it. How do I undo this move? Thank you

I signed into Windows 10 calendar with my Google account instead of my Microsoft account. I cannot find a way to cancel the Google account and use my Microsoft account. Can't cancel (or delete) the Google account in Calendar settings.Account. Any way to fix this?

The Windows 10 Mail app allows you to turn on and customize notifications per configured email account. read more Continue reading...

Hi I'm not able to receive mail using the mail app in Windows 10. I can send, but messages sent to my Gmail account, (my Windows account) don't show up in Windows Mail. When I open Thunderbird they are all there. I thought that it may be deleting the mail because it gets sent to Thunderbird...

Recently a bunch of programs in windows 7 keep have been asking for administrator permissions. I have an administrator account, and have the programs set to run as administrator. My user account control is set to only notify when a program makes changes, but it has always been this way. Why did...

Windows ( in the case Vista home Premium a system i am restoring on a VAIO for a friend). Setting it up with an Admin account and a standard user account. a Few questions: When is the best time to add the standard user account for everyday use? Here is why i ask, i notice that sometimes certain...

Press the Windows key+ R keys simultaneously to open the Run dialog box. Type control userpasswords2 in the run prompt and press Enter key. Click on your Microsoft account, uncheck the “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer box”. Do the instructions and you are done. OK...

I'm running Windows 7 on HP Pavillion. I'm having trouble with family account showing devices and printers window with items in it, just a blank screen. See attachment. My administration side of accounts shows the items in window. See attachment. I created a new account call Test and it shows...

I installed windows 7 into a new hard disk and created 105 user accounts. From accounts 1 - 100 I can see manage other user accounts (1 - 100 only),but If I log into 101 - 105 and try to manage other accounts I can see its blank. I enabled the built in administrator account even with that...

Hi, I am really perplexed by this problem i am having with my XP system. After a reboot the system always presents a Guest logon dialog box even after I login as another user. I got really pissed and disabled guest account. Now I get this stupid behavior shown in the attached pic. The system...

Hi, I just wanted to know how to get rid of using passwords when accessing windows 8 and my computer. I didn't used to have to butI some how changed something. Find windows 8 very confusing. you can e/m me at [Removed to prevent spam e-mails - Mike] Any help is appreciated. Arlen

I have deleted a user profile, including folders and data, but the user is still in the homegroup list. How is that possible?

I bought a laptop with win 8 installed. Pretty much a PIA until I installed Classic Shell. Upon start up I created the first user account, admin. Upon every boot up, I get a plain blue screen asking for admin password to access. With Classic Shell I went into control panel and created 2...

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...

Can you set a user on windows home so there can't change there password? Can you set a expiration date on Windows 7 home password? Is there a default expiration on win 7 home?

Fixes an issue in which you cannot set the "Country/region" attribute of a user account to "Curaçao," "Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba," or "Sint Maarten (Dutch part)" when you use various tools. More...

Hello When I place a folder of data in my password protected log on pc 's admin account, it is ok but, it also goees to the gest account. if I remove it from the guest account, it also is removed from the admin account. I need both accounts but how do i set it up so only the admin acct has the...