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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...

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...

I have 4 user accounts and Im an admin. After reboot the other 3 accounts seem fine but office apps when i launch are as if im installing for the first time and ive lost all my contacts, folders etc in outlook 2007(i had to start from scratch using the wizard). HOWEVER.....all my mail files...

Someone worked on my computer (a pro) and established a new User Account. I would like to delete the Old Account which is what he named it. When I click on the new account, there is no option to delete the other one. Would appreciate any feedback any of might come up with. Thanks.

My friend set up a guest account on his computer for me to use. Windows7 copied the administrator's desktop icons to the guest account desktop, where I deleted them. Deleting those icons also deleted them on the administrator's account. Is this the way it's supposed to work?

I have two email accounts. One is MSN and the other is Verizon. I view both on emails on Windows Live Mail or on my MSN account. I get the emails OK, but on my Verizon emails I received the email messages on both my Verizon address and my MSN address. I do not want my Verizon emails to...

Link RemovedHello when I start my laptop i get to the logon screen and it lets me choose My own administrator account and ''Other User'' and how do i delete or disable that ''Other User'' the picture above is how my logon is like Thanks !! --------------------------------------- Specs...

I am looking to log in to a local user account on a windows 7 machine but I can not specify which account I want to log in to because the "other user" icon is missing at the log in screen. There are a few other icons but none are the one I want to log into. Do you know how to put the "other...

[SOLVED] Administrator Permissions not working on Administator Account Alright, so I did some looking through similar threads but couldn't find any with this exact issue. Hopefully this is not a repeat thread, I don't think it is. SOLUTION It turns out that some of the files in the folder were...