lockout

I live in the United States and was vacationing in Rome, Italy. I was using the hotel computer and tried to sign into my Microsoft account to check my email. Microsoft told me they didn’t recognize the computer and would not let me sign in without verification. They wanted to TEXT or EMAIL me a...

I have long had this problem with Windows Update. The annex shows the error, and so the image is, it is actually completely locked, meaning that no matter what I do, so there will be no further update. Found on YouTube: Solved / FIXED - Windows 10 Defender Update ERROR - KB2267602 but it is in...

I want to lock one computer out of our home LAN - yet let it still access the wifi so's it can get the internet. How can I do that? The purpose is to avoid any contamination it might pick up being spread across the LAN.

I on parental controls and a message appears that One of administrator account has no password then then i click on a standard user then i click ok but a message appear then do you want to force to have a password then i click yes. now when i log off the user. the admin account is locked up and...

Hey guys. I was just wondering if there is any way to add a new account lockout policy. Note I mean add a new one not modify an existing one. More specifically I'm interested to know if I can run a program when windows is on the login screen (when you put in your username and password). Any...

I feel somewhat ashamed to say that somehow I have locked myself out of access to ALL files on of my user accounts on my computer. I can log in but can't even see the original desktop! Is there help for me? Bob...

Can anyone help here. I'm new to windows 7 and recently my laptop, Toshiba, has started playing up. Once switched on it ask for password as usual, then we get an error saying 'profile user lockout. The only way I have been able to get over this is to start in safe mode and do a system restore...

I have recently installed windows 7 home premium and never set a password upon installation (it's a home pc and didn't feel the need to - bad call I'm sure!). Anyway...I restarted my pc today and it is now asking for a password. I have no idea what this could be. I tried everything I know...I...

When I load up Windows 7, the first strange thing was the Windows Classic theme... unless it was set there by default, which I don't think it is. When I try and access anything at all (Control Panel, Network Manager, etc.) It refuses me, saying "You do not have permission to access the...