guest account

I have an Admin account and a Guest account. I've worked out how to share folders (not just by using the "Libraries > Public" section) -- I right click a folder, go so Share With > Advanced Sharing > Security > go to Users section > select Full Control. That way both accounts can play and save...

How do i give myself Administrator privaleges on a guest account ! I am trying to acquire full control and turn my guest account into an admin account ! Any EASY way of acquiring such a task ? The OS in question is a Vista

Hello everyone thanks for taking the time to read this. I ran into a problem last night. I’m going to give as much background information as I can. I bought a display model eMachine last December from a store called Nebraska Furniture mart. I take it home, change the password and created...

I have a program that run at startup. It need administrator privileges / elevation. Running the program on admin account, no problem. Running the program on limited/guest account, I have to fill the password. From admin account, how do I allow my program can run without password prompt? The...

My problem is this: the administrator account on my computer is also the guest account, so it doesn't have all the priviliges it should, and because it's a guest account it cannot join a homegroup even if i log in with the administrator account, at the same time the other user accounts are not...

hi all, sorted out my guest account logon prob. now when any guest logs on, no network icon appears in system tray/notification area? the guest can access the net and browse. would be very grateful for any ideas/solutions. the icon does not even appear in the customize icons display window...

I am wondering,,,,,i have Win 7 installed ! If the user account i use suddenly catches a virus, does that mean the rest of the accounts on this computer are affected too ? I want to use a specific guest account just for experimentation ! I would like to know if tampering with the guest user...

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!

Windows 7 Enterprise 90 day (64bit) A big improvement over 7 RC which would hang if I attempted any file sharing with my Ubuntu Samba share. However, now I can read my shares but can't write to a writeable share with guest access. I have added the cridetials 'guest' with no password and that...

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...