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Hi Folks, A Newbie to this forum, but used to post regularly on xp/vista forums (before shutdown) and http://www.gadgetdetective.com. The problem i have is with a group machine running 7 64bit (build 7600) with 1xAdim (myself) & 4xStd Accounts. However when i turn on the guest account,then...

OK i have read other post and what i did i can see the files on XP compter belonging to win 7. but not able to find printer which are connected to xp. First off, I had all printers connected to win7 which also has the router. My husband and kids have lap tops which we are all on a network, for...

OK i have read other post and what i did i can see the files on XP compter belonging to win 7 but not able to find printer which are connected to xp on the win 7. First off, I had all printers connected to win7 which also has the router still. DO I need to remove the printers on win 7? My...

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...

Hello everyone!, I am having this huge problem with a computer! The guest account is the only one I can access. It has no administrator account! The computer is a dell inspiron one. It has the built in recovery repair on it, but when i try that it has no admin account to type the...

I have one administrative account and two standard user accounts and one guest account my wife is one of the standard accounts. When she tried to switch user from my account on the switch user screen only my account icon was there and one that said “Other user” icon is blank and when clicked on...

I have tried this question several ways still to no avail. So will try again. I have a w7 pc on wired local network, also VMWARE xp mode on w7 machine and vista laptop and network media player. I need to be able to share the media files on the w7 machine to the local network so that the media...

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 running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. A couple of days ago my itunes started acting strange and wouldn't like to open, I would have to catch it in a good mood and it would open about 1/5 times I would try. Now it won't open at all. I have tried reinstalling it, I have turned off antivirus...

Hello, I got a new computer last week and it was working fine up until now running windows 7 professional 64bit. I activated the guest account and logged on to it, and when I tried to log back to the administrator ("owner") account, I got the following message (on the windows logon screen)...

Hi, I have two users on my PC: Me (set as administrator) and a Guest account. I would like to prevent users of the Guest account from accessing specific folders and their contents. Can you please tell me how I would go about this? Thank you!

Hi everyone, I happened to disable my 'Administrator' account from the group policy editor. I have two other accounts, one, a standard account and another one, a guest account. Every time I do something that requires administrator privileges, A dialog appears asking 'To continue, type an...

Hi, I fresh installed Win 7 RTM on my PC for testing purposes and found that its slower to boot up than the RC 7100 build (around 55 sec vs 35 sec). I think it may have something to do with the user account, since logging on from off takes a long time in itself ( around 30 sec on the welcome...

Hi, I have a filesharing problem between my windows7 machine and my Freecom Media player (a hardware media player to connect to a television). The freecom mediaplayer recognizes my windows 7 PC, but it says that no directories are shared. (but of course I shared some directories in win 7). I...

Start -> Run -> gpedit.msc Computer Configuration Security Settings Security Options: Accounts: Rename administrator account = Enter a name other than "Administrator" Accounts: Guest Account status: Disabled Accounts: Rename guest account = Enter a name other than "Guest" Interactive Logon...

Hi, I'm hoping someone here will be able to shed some light on a problem I've just had. Was using my laptop as normal, running the RC1 of Windows 7, checking my emails and looking on the internet (firefox 3). Outlook 2007 froze, not responding, then the whole laptop froze, and the aero...

Like Mac has there auto logout gor Guest that deletes everything how can this be done with Windows 7?

"Windows Explorer Has Stopped Working" notification keeps popping up whenever I log into my account, restoring doesn't help. Hi, currently, everytime i log into my account (Which is also the system administrator account) on my desktop PC, I can't get past the...

I have a media gate 350 and I can not see the shares on my windows 7 system. I can access vista shares fine and vista can access the windows 7 shares. The guest user account is turned on, the guest user has access to the share, I have tried turning off the firewall. I have looked at a lot of...

Hello Having exhausted all the other obvious resources, I am hoping someone on this forum will be able to help with a incredibly frustrating Windows 7 issue I am experiencing. My user account, for some strange reasons, appears to bet set up as a 'Guest account'. As a result, I am unable...