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On the upper right of the homepage, I saw my name displayed, as I was signed in with my Gmail account...here's the weird part. It had my name displayed the old way I typed it years ago, so I wanted to change that. When I changed my name under my Google Account settings...it no longer shows my...

In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz explains how you can activate and use the real Administrator account in Microsoft Windows 7. More...

We have a family computer with three main accounts; admin, josh, becky. "josh" has been reset but the other two accounts; "admin" and "becky" are the same. I have never seen this happen and I have no idea how to recover the files on Josh's account. How can I recov the account before everything...

In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz explains how you can activate and use the real Administrator account in Microsoft Windows 7. More...

Hi all! I was trying to secure some files on a shared computer, so I created a new user account with administrator privileges. I moved my files from the old account to the new one and then tried to limit access these files to only my new account, as the old account was also an administrator...

When first started, the welcome screen contained 3 icons representing 2 home users & 1 guest account. Now, the welcome screen only shows 2 icons..last user logged on & guest user. How can I revert to former view? Have read all help menus within Win 7, as well as system restore. Didn't...

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How do you lock down XP with out logging off your account? :confused:

Hi all, First time here. My question is this. I have an HP laptop with Windows 7. The little square account picture that shows up at the password page and then again on the top of the start menu is a blue background with an HP in the middle. I changed the picture just to try it and now when I...

I received my laptop yesterday - Core i5, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. I proceeded to install some apps from Microsoft and Adobe. Installation went fine and the apps started without problems. As soon as I saw the long list of fonts in Word, I wanted to remove as many of them as I...

I purchased a premium membership and have not been moved to the Premium Supporter member group, but I can see the Premium Members forum.

So i activated the defaulted administrator account and put a password on it. Couple months later I deactivated the account before removing the password. I tried removing the password but it didn't let me, so I deactivated it. Now whenever I try to run something as administrator, it keeps asking...

I've just gone to add a new contact to my list and discovered that it has been flooded with all my Facebook contacts! Can I turn this option off without removing the Facebook link from my Live account? This is really annoying as I now have over 300 contacts, surely this can be turned off...

For those single PC with out multiple accounts that just want one account with out having to set up a login name and password. This is for you. STEPS: 1. click start orb 2. type in "netplwiz" with out quotes 3. hit enter or select form the menu 4. In the dialog box that...

I installed Windows 7 32 bit and Office 2010 last week and since then I cannot get into my Hotmail account. The window opens but the minute I try to open an email or do anything, the window freezes and I have a hard time closing it. I need my hotmail account. I have other accounts (yahoo...

Here is a question for our Internet gamers. Would you like the ability to connect your Steam account to your user profile? This will be entirely optional, but will give us a good indication if its worthwhile to sponsor initiatives like group gaming events and things like this.

Hi all some suggestions please. On one account only when you type the @ key on the keyboard it actually produces a " symbol and vice versa. Any ideas how this can be rectified?

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My password stops working about every day. I think I tried logging in twice this week and both times I had to obtain a new password. NO I did not forget them, I did not change them, I still have the emails and they are logged into my password manager. What is going on??????????

So I've been trying to uninstall a program off of my programs list and it continues to tell me that I am unable to do so because I am not the administrator. My account on my computer is the administrator account and it is the only account on my computer. This is the message it keeps telling me...