admin account

I've forgotten my windows 7 password to the admin account and so now I'm using Offline NT & Registry Editor to try and reset it. I keep getting stuck on step TWO: Select PATH and registry files. The default is not working and I have no idea what else to try, thanks in advance :frown:

My personal account is setup as admin by default but prefer to set it with user rights. Before I do that I would like to create an Admin account to cover admin issues when needed. When the admin user account is created it only shows one field for entering the new password and no 2nd field to...

Hi I noticed a few days ago that my computer power plan was wrong so went to control panel to change and it says some settings are managed by your administrator and wont let me choose anything. - UAC is disabled - My account is only admin account - Global built in admin account is disabled -...

I am try to help my friend with her computer. I know some about computers. Her problem Is that the other day she went to sign on to her computer and the computer would not let her In. It was just her user profile. She has a admin account and I have a admin account. I was able to logIn but she...

Hello I wrote this post once but it did not appear so I will try again. When I put a folder in my admin acct it also appears in the guest acct which is dangerous. I need both acct's but how can I put is only in admin. When I delete it from the guest acct is disappears from the admin acct too...

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 a Gateway computer, 64 bit, DX4822-01, with Intel pentium E5300 Dual Core, 2.6GHZ each, 6GB ram, and 1TB HDD, running Windows 7 Home Premium x 64 bit. :(Four days ago I did a complete hard drive backup. On the 6th, and last disc I was told that it didn't properly close the session. 3...

I have a problem.... I have two programs that I need to run when the PC is on late at night. I have my BIOS set to boot up the PC @ 1AM every day; then I "wanted" to run the backup and virus scan automatically then use shutdown.exe to shot down the PC @ 4AM. Here is the problem... First I am...

it is purported that creating a separate admin account then setting your admin acct to a std user helps with warding of malware. In order to do any admin tasks u must enter a PW. The purpose of UAC is to help ward off malware. If set at default, in order to perform admin functions u must...

Just want help on an error message. I tried to log on to my admin account. The error message I received was "The User Profile Service service failed the log on. User profile cannot be loaded." Is any one familiar with this problem?

Hi all please can someone help?. I am running win 7 64bit and all of a sudden all my desktop icons disappeared along with my start menu and my right click function. Ctrl-alt-del brings up the option to access the task manger but it fails to display it. safe mode is fine and when I create a...

Hi, just joined the forum to ask for help with a laptop I'm working on. I've researched the problem in a load of forums but nothing seems to work on it, so I'm hoping someone here knows of a solution I've missed. The laptop is an Acer Aspire 5732Z, the specs are: cpu - T4400 ram - 3.00 GB OS -...

Greetings, I downloaded a file to my desktop. I plugged in my USB external hard drive to transfer my downloaded file to the USB external hard drive. I got a dialog box telling me that "You need permission to perform this action" I am the only user on my computer. I have an adminstrative...

Hi all, I wanted to prevent the guest users on my laptop from accessing D: drive. So from my admin account, I set the permissions on my D: drive to deny all for the Users group, without even looking at all the permissions listed. I thought these permissions would affect only the non-admin...

Hi! I have 3 computers with Windows 7 Pro. I can use remote control between 2 of them, but I can not connect from any of those two to the third one. All the services needed for remote control are running, and I have tried several tutorials on how to set up remote control...and nothing...

Hi. I have some troubles with my pc. i just reinstalled windows 7 home premium, but now im having a lot of troubles. When i have installed all important updates and restart my computer, it starts up the windows startup repair, and rollback to before i installed the updates. after...

Hi, I'm trying to install Boris FX RED 5 trial on Windows 7 64bit. Each time I try to install it I get the following error message: 'Error 1926. Could not set security for file C:\Windows\. Error: 0. Verify that you have sufficient privilages to modify the security permisions for this...

Hi. My PC have two user accounts: Admin (Administration) and Guest (Standard). i sat time restrictions for Guest account. then, for testing, i restarted my pc and tried to log on with Guest account at certain time. but it showed me this error: "Your account has time restrictions that prevent...

I have an admin account, but it's the only account for my computer. I used to have plenty of old accounts, some of which were also admin accounts. When I decided to delete them, I chose to keep the files just in case. Now I realize I don't need them but it won't let me delete them. I went to...

hi everyone as this is my first thread I run Windows 7 on a Sony Vaio, and never had issues. recently I had this situation where some software doesn't run properly on my main account (admin) but only in a secondary account I had created the software is installed without problems, but then...