account settings

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...

Well anytime a program opens and I have to verify with user account control by clicking continue the programs load up with no problems. But whenever I go into the control panel and try to change something that has the little windows shield in front of it and everytime I click it the user account...