guest account

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...

I have resolved the XP-W7 network issue, but it was brute force and now I want to make sure I didn't compromise something. I need to understand and know who various USERS refer to like: EVERYONE NETWORK GUEST GUESTS HOME USERS (as opposed to Home Group) SYSTEM thx

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...

I have read every variation in several forums to no avail. I have 2 machines on running XP Pro SP3 and on running Win 7 7057. When I had Win Beta 7000 I figured out the Networking in a few minutes. I have been working on this for 2 days, with little success. I have figured out how to Map a...

I have a home network with 7 or 8 XP machines. All are on the same workgroup. All share EVERYTHING. All have passwords. All are logged in with an ADMINISTRATOR account. All can see each other on the network. They all talk to each other just fine. All the GUEST accounts are turned ON. I loaded...