login issues

Hi guys, I am new to the forums, but not to windows, I've been using microsoft products since DOS and windows 3.1 so I know windows inside out. I just installed windows 7 RC1 onto my acer netbook (1.6ghz atom, 1GB ram, 160GB HDD) and it installed in 5-10 minutes real quick from my thumb...

I did a clean install of Windows 7 and now,I am having problems... I am testing Windows 7 on a work computer, on a Domain. I have Admin rights on the Domain, and everything worked PERFECTLY, untill I moved to the RC. Thats when the internet issues started. We use iPrism for our proxy server for...

Hello, I am having problems accessing my home servers shared folders on Windows 7 RC, when i try to login with my user and password it just comes up with "Login Failure- Unknown User name or bad password". I am only seeming to have this problem in windows 7 it seems to work fine on Vista and...

I use this program and it works fine. There is only one thing. Today upon login, I received an PM from Windows Live Services... saying that I had to change my connexion name because of updates. First am I the only one or many of you received it? And how can I change this Windows Live ID...

So i've been running Windows 7 pretty fine for the past month. However, I just did an easy transfer from my old laptop (running XP) to my new system, but I'm not sure if this is the cause of my problems. My computer starts up fine, I get to the Windows 7 login screen and enter my password. What...

I was using Build 7000 with updates through 2-18-09 on a reasonably basis. It was installed with no password being declared. Thus, no password was required when starting up. I did not use W-7 for two weeks, during which the original password "expired." Now, when I try to launch W-7 I get the...

Hi, I have 3 drives. C, D, E, C -> windows Xp D -> Windows 7 E -> Just my files. once I login to windows 7, I cannot see my C:\ drive insted my D:\ drive is named as C:\ wot is the wrong there?

i downloaded the 7000 build from a torrent yesterday (because the microsoft site was down) and installed it. generally it works well but i am having one problem. for some reason the default administrator account was called Gebruiker... so i renamed the account to my name. but then the next...

Hello everyone, This is my first post so please excuse any 'noob' questions. I recently downloaded Windows 7 Build 7000 and installed it to a partition on my laptop's hdd (dual booting WinXP SP3). Everything was going fine (for about 3 days) - and so i decided to setup Windows Media Centre with...

I have just installed Vista. I have a standard and an admin account, For some reason or the other when i login with the standard user account i see the admin user logged in and all the processes running by him and it doesnt show the standard user logged. when i log in with the admin account I...

I have build 6801 of windows 7 and for when i discovered that for some reason my computer was working at 100% all the time for no apparent reason, both cores and the harddrive LED on the computer is at full workload. What's happening how can I help better describe my problems? My computer is a...

Hi All - WinMail stopped saving the usernames and passwords of my mail accounts. What could have happened? What can I check? Regards, Rob

Hi. My first post! I have been trying to access the Windows Newsgroups Forums from both this laptop (which runs Vista) and my desktop PC which runs XP. I used to have no trouble accessing the forums from either, but recently if I attempt to post a question on the Vista forum site, it refuses to...

I have windows vista on a dv9000 17" laptop, and my computer starts up normally, gets to the login screen, and then when I type my password and hit enter, it comes up with this message: "Windows Security: The system could not access the VeriSoft server. If the problem persists, please contact...

Can't get past the login screen. Message "The User Profile Service service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded." This is with a new Home Premium OS.

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the correct category for this, so feel free to move it if it's not. I am using an HP Pavillion tx13321 laptop which come with a program called 'Verisoft single sign on' and a fingerprint scanner so I can log in using my fingerprints. This is an awesome...

I bought a new notebook preloaded with vista home basic I let windows load and do it's thing and then it asked me to restart Since then it is impossible for me to get past the welcome screen in regular mode First I thought it was password related but I can logon in safe mode with my...