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    Windows 10 Is possible to change path of USER?

    Hi! I managed few accounts on my fresh Windows 10.1909 install with not correctly entered account names. I want to change them - it is possible in case of name, but is possible to change also path to user folder and its content? Example: Incorrectly is created account C:\users\miiro Needs fix...
  2. Windows 7 Access desktop without password?

    My sister put a password on my Wii U, and the only way to get a master key so I can reclaim it is via email. The only problem is, when she changed my pin, she also replaced my email with hers. I can access her email if I log on to her old desktop on my computer, where she has her email password...
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    Windows 7 "Logon Process Initialisation Failure"

    I am suffering from the dreaded "Logon Process Initialisation Failure" error. I have downloaded the Microsoft "hotfix" onto a flashdrive from another computer. However as this error does not allow me to get into my desktop on the errant computer how the heck am I supposed to install the hotfix...
  4. Windows 10 Windows 10 startup error 0xC000021A

    So yesterday i shut down my computer, and today when i started it up (about 2 hours ago) i can see the startup Motherboard message and all the BIOS stuff, but after that it is just a blank black screen, can't see the blue Windows logo, or that spinning circle indicating that it's loading. I...
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 Password Reset Difficulty

    Hi all, I recently upgraded to windows 10 from windows 7 and I am having difficulties opening my windows user desktop account. It appears my original laptop password to access my desktop has been altered to my windows account password. I cannot remember my windows outlook password and have...
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    Windows 7 Remote Desktop Connection not working in LAN

    Have windows 7 pro desktop and windows 7 pro wireless laptop. trying to access the desktop ip 192.168.1.142 from the laptop....it use to work...both are on same router/switch... PINGS work in both directions and with both IP address and name. Connection is denied both ways... Router was...
  7. Windows 7 my board or Windows-7

    I have had several times in the last while where my system 2/3's freezes up. Can't get back to the desktop just after minutes, but still able to reboot. Wondering if it is this B75M-D3H Gigabyte board..?
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    Windows 7 Home network problem

    Would like to find out why I cannot see a hard drive on another computer on my home network. Here is the background. I took and put a SSD as C: drive on a HP Pavilion and put that HD (ST750LM022 HN-M7) into the CD drive bay which makes the HD drive D:. Did the share of that drive, right click...
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    Windows 7 Resetting user password WITHOUT boot / BIOS access

    Got a bit of a dilema here: my work laptop has a locked BIOS and HDD only boot and I have (foolishly) forgotten the password to the one and only user on the account. Anyone got any solutions that do not warrant the use of boot disks? The USB, SD and disk drive readers work but I have no way to...
  10. Windows 7 login issues

    I lost power during a printer software install and had to use startup repair to get back to normal. Although I was using the Admin password (no other accounts present) windows would create a temp user for each login. I was not able to use my desktop. Using Windows explorer, I could see and open...
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    Windows 7 Login problems

    I find myself unable to get past the login screen. Windows boots normally, it doesn't hang or freeze...it takes me to the login screen as expected, and I type my password in as usual. It accepts this without error, so I know my password isn't wrong or anything like that...but after displaying...
  12. Windows 8 What's the eye icon for?

    Hi On the lock screen where you type in your password there are 2 icons at the end of the line. One is a normal check mark icon and the other one that is just ahead of it is a eye icon. What is the eye icon for, both of them log my in but when I did log in using the eye icon this morning...
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    Windows 7 Trouble using windows 7 to locally access DVR

    Hi everyone, New to windows 7 and not sure if this is something you can help me with or not. I have been tring to setup my dvr to be able to access my security cameras from a remote location, but have not had much luck. My present problem is when I try to log into my DVR locally, using my lab...
  14. You cannot connect to the desktop of a Windows 7-based Hyper-V virtual machine by using the Virtual

    Fixes an issue in which you receive an error message when you try to connect to the desktop of a Windows 7-based Hyper-V virtual machine by using the Virtual Machine Connection tool in Windows Server 2012. This issue occurs when you use the RemoteFX... More...
  15. VIDEO Microsoft Windows on Android Phones

    It's here! Well, sort of. Any version of Microsoft Windows can theoretically be accessed from your Android cell phone using the free TeamViewer for Control App. Using virtualization, you could go so far as to access Windows 95 on your cell phone. Find out why Windows just doesn't seem to play...
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    Windows 7 Expanding windows file - Stuck at 0%

    Before I explain - I can not get onto the desktop of the laptop. So - For some reason when I try to get to the desktop, the little circle loading thing, keeps spinning, and doing nothing/Black screen - I tried repairing, no luck, so I asked someone, and he said I probably had a Trojan, and it...
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    Windows 7 Bright Green Screen After Login, Help!!!

    I cant get into my desktop on windows 7, after I login It hangs at welcome and loads for a while, then a green screen appears. after I reboot I get the error has occured screen and get the safe mode and start windows as normal etc....options. I can get into desktop in safe mode. My pc is only...
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    Windows 7 System restore made things worse!

    Was having minor issues with my laptop - Sony Vaio, just a little over a year old, no histry of problems...the screen would flicker sometimes when left idle for a few minutes. Then on startup screen would be completely black... This started a little over a week ago. Also a week ago started...
  19. Windows 7 logon screen

    All of a sudden my logon screen appears telling me it's locked after hibernate/sleep mode is unactivated by mouse/keyboard movement to awake computer. I have to click the icon to get into my desktop. This just started about 12 hours ago and I can't get it fixed.
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Remote Desktop As Media Center

    Hello, I'm trying to build a media center using windows 7 Ent. I have Remote Desktop Enabled, and i can connect, however, when i log on from my laptop, it takes the system user to a login panel and doesn't show me the desktop. Is there a way to allow the desktop user, and remote user to share a...