account settings

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...

On my Win7 Pro 64 bit I have somehow picked up a ghost account. The splash screen and the account manager show the same three accounts: Administrator, [me] & Guest. But the Task Manager and other tools shows that "mishmash" is the user and [me] never is. This causes some obvious issues in...

I am using Windows 7 Home Premium in a Toshiba NB305-N410BL Netbook. Sometimes when I try to save a file in certain program subfolders, I cannot do it. Instead I get a message box, "You don't have permission to save in this location. Contact the administrator to obtain permission. Save in My...

Hello, For days now, I've been looking to solve an issue I'm having regarding the permission settings. It's driving me bonkers ! For whatever reason I simply cannot move a specific dll file, I then get the following message : "you require permissions from Everyone to make changes to this...

I have WIndows 7 Ultimate and when I go into User Accounts in Control Panel I click on "change your picture" and I am only able to use the Windows 7 pictures. When I click on "browse for more pictures" nothing happens. Any ideas?

Hey, I have registered here to solve this problem, I am very upset because of it, please help me out: I've set an automatic logon feature on the OS a few days ago (through 'contol userpasswords2'), it worked nice, no problems, suddenly today I've tried to access it again to remove it, then it...

I'm a 7 newbie. I wish to setup a Standard user account without password for visitors. I will employ parental controls to limit access to most programs. How do I edit the Start menu of the newly created Standard user account so that the restricted programs are not visible? At the moment, the...

I recently installed Windows 7 home premium. Since the installation, when the computer sets idle for any length of time, the screen goes to user logon. I have tried everthing to remove this, but no luck. I tried unchecking the logon on resume box in personalization but it won't let me uncheck...

Just as the title suggests, I would like to remove the picture and frame entirely from the logon screen, but leave the logon as it is. Any ideas or suggestions on how to do this? I've spent the better part of 2 hours trying to figure it out and researching this.

I have installed W7 Pro and set up two user accounts, I'll call them Admin and Zepe. The problem is that the files I've set up in the Zepe account can't be accessed from the Admin account. The UAC won't let me do anything with those files, i.e. move then or delete them and visa-versa. I have...

Deep inside the bowels of Windows Vista & Windows 7, there’s a secret Administrator account, and it’s different from the normal administrator account you most likely have set up on your PC. This Administrator account is not part of the Administrator group. (Confused yet? You should...

and now I'm stuck. I cant install some programs or drivers because the Admin user is disable. I changed in the "control panel" my user to a "Standart User" and I used the "Local users and groups" to disable the Administrator account. How can I now get administration?

Hello, Does anyone know how to change the account image my oem "dell" placed on the logon screen. I changed it in account settings but it only changed my account picture under start menu, not the logon screen. I think its connected to OEM_Resources.dll. Does anyone know how to remove that...

I just installed Windows 7 as a fresh install. I am coming from XP so I don't know anything about Vista or 7. When I was using XP, my documents (pictures, video, music) were private from other users on my computer. I can't figure out how to do this on Windows 7. All I want is when another user...