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I have a desktop system that had WinXP on it. I bought a copy of Win7, put the install CD in the drive, and booted. After waiting a long time(*), it finally booted and offered me a choice: Upgrade Complete install I'd swear I chose fresh install, but when it finished installing all my user...

My friend has a fairly new stand-alone (not network or domain) Windows 7 Professional desktop PC with MS Security Essentials as protection. Using a Win7Pro User account which has administrative privileges, when attempting to access any USB flash drive (tried using a selection of flash drives)...

Hi, for some reason today I signed in as usual & it boots in a black empty screen with a small window saying " Win explorer is not responding". in CTRL-ALT DEL I choose change user to "Administrator" & it boots OK. On this user I do not have all my usual progs & dada. Any way to recover this...

Among other problems, the admin account on my computer is probably corrupted. About 7-8 months ago, when you signed on to the admin account, the wallpaper was black and all of the desktop shortcuts and icons had disappeared. Soon later, the password for logging on didn't work at all, so it was...

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...

Hi, I've had a previous problem about my administration account but that is now fixed, but for some reason when I turned on my PC the next day, The login screen for windows does not show up on my monitor, and a msg from the TV says 'Could not receive a signal from PC' , I've checked multiple...

Selling an old laptop of mine on EBAY. Did a fresh install of Windows 7. For some reason I cannot get permission to delete the "old windows folder" I keep going on to the security tab and setting permission for administrators to have full control of that folder, but it is still not letting me...

Okay, where to start... I start off here. February 10th, 2014 I try to take the side off of my tower, and end up screwing something up. My dad is extremely handy and puts all of the screws back perfectly. However, when I log on, I get the "The RPC Server is Unavailable" error. However, Windows...

I upgraded to windows 8.1 from windows 8 and worked well for awhile but now I cannot log on to my user account . I can only log on using guest account .Would welcome any solutions please Regards Patrick

My computer is not running any programs as administrator. I am logged in as Admin User but when I try to run a program as administrator, nothing happens even though the program itself will run. It was working fine when i turned on my computer for an hour or so, after that i noticed that none of...

Hi.... i am using windows 7 ultimate(32-bit) & i am using secugen fingerprint so now i want add more than one fingerprint as windows logon password to single windows admin account but i am unable to do this so plz help me to sort it...

So i have a pretty good understanding of computers, i like to change my password often just to be secure. When doing so i change it via CMD prompt, because for me this is just the fastest easiest way. Well today something went horribly wrong, i have no idea what happen. All i know is i can no...

Have an Admin user acc. and a personal user acc. When I'm in personal acc. always see 2 'Pictures' folders in Libraries pane, there is under each a sub folder each named 'My Pictures' and both have different amount of photos, most are similar Photos. First 'Picture' has a 'My Pictures' and a 'My...

Hello all, I am the soul user of my computer. I run it as Admin, unless I'm online banking or credit-carding. In that there are no other users, and never will be, I wonder if it's more reliable to keep my general data in the normal Users place (My Documents, etc.) or just on the root of the...

As in win7 I got a super admin account, and a normal working account. When installing win8 I had to enter the username of the administrator (mine), then I created my working account (also mine). To distinguish betrween the 2 I would like to call my administrator account 'administrator'. How to...

i run cmd in Elevated Command Prompt mode. i used commands such as; net user administrator * (but can not change password, the system error 5 has occured) net user administrator /delete (access is denied) net user administrator set /inactive net user administrator /inactive:yes but all these...

HP Pavilion Elite m9040n Desktop, only computer in house. Was using HP All -in -One 309G printer for a few years and everything worked great. One day I noticed that the printer icon wasn't showing up in Device and Printers folder. Well went into the other forum for HP and Windows 7 and several...

I have a windows 7 laptop and a windows vista desktop. There is a wireless router connected to my desktop and I am able to connect to it and use the internet on my laptop. But I am having trouble connecting to my desktop and viewing files on my desktop from my laptop. When I open up the file...

First of all i was unable to configure my advanced power options, i.e- create new power plan, choose what power button does or closing lid does? I restored the settings & restarted but couldn't solve it. This is what i get while trying to fix this:- Link Removed Somehow, then i thought of...

I have just tried the below tip and later I end up in deleting my admin account.:( Login Directly Into Windows 7 Without Entering Password By Aun on Jul 21 2009 20 Comments Every time Windows 7 is started it asks you to select the username and enter the password to access your system, there is...