login problems

The Windows 11 experience has always been one of streamlined security and innovation—until now. Microsoft's April 2025 cumulative update, KB5055523, which was designed to strengthen the operating system’s security posture, has instead thrown a wrench into the smooth workings of Windows Hello...

I have two PCs in this room, one called ELLIOT-PC and one called ELLIOT-SERVER. ELLIOT-SERVER has a Local Account profile called Elliot, that I use to share folders. ELLIOT-PC has a Microsoft Account profile (Hotmail). When I try to navigate to \\elliot-server in Windows Explorer on...

Can someone explain to me how I can deactivate or delete one of my Autostart users as an Admin? My problem is that every time I start Win11, I am told that the pwd for my auto-username login is incorrect. I can get into the system with a different Admin UserId and Pwd. However, I cannot...

Hi, pulling my hair out with this one. I have a PC running Windows 11 Insider preview which has been fine for ages. I came to boot up and it's now asking for a password. None has ever been set. I've been into the registry and there is no password in there. I can boot in safe mode but cannot get...

This morning I went to log into my PCs (I have 2 machines with a KVM switch), and one of them won't let me sign in, saying "You'll need the internet for this"... What I've tried: I switched the USB wireless adapter from the working machine and restarted I moved the wifi adapter to other USB...

I've got what should be a really simple fix, but I can't figure it out. So my step-dad just reformated his old ASUS x205t laptop. Upon first setting it up he chose a local login password, wrote it down, then it got thrown away. Now we can't login. Normally, I would just put a windows disc in the...

Is there a way to unlink these two devices. I'm finding issues with logins that worked fine until I activated the 10. At least I think that's the cause. Any thoughts?

So my computer for the last 2 days has been pissing me off. I start it up, I login, as soon as I login I can sensor things wrong as it takes much longer than it normally does. When done logging in, it shows my background and nothing else, it shows the toolbar with only the windows logo and I...

Is there a Microsoft Account associated with my Windows 10 computer and if so how to I change the address to something else? Microsoft has a bad habit of claiming my account is being used by others and blocks me from the account. For example this message keeps appearing: You need to fix your...

Hi BSOD I keep getting this error message. It comes sometimes as soon as I log into Windows, literally as soon as I type in my pin. It can then repeat this process for several times until I eventually get in then crashes again with the error 0x000001d3. It is happening all the time now. I have...

Running W7 on a modern desktop (Asus mobo) I had put this off for a long time - hoping it would be stable by time I upgrade. Followed full update process - al up to date before upgrade. After 100% upgrade ... it rebooted and got to to login screen - would not accept any mouse of keyboard input...

I am not great with computers, but I'm going to do my best to describe my issue and see if there might be a way to fix it. I did the automatic windows 10 upgrade a few weeks ago. Yesterday I installed a new CPU on my system nothing else changed. After the CPU install things went...

So basically, I have used fingerprint to log into my Microsoft account on my laptop until today. I have disassembled my laptop today but everything else works fine. When I go to settings there is no option to enable Windows Hello like before (I don't have 3D camera but fingerprint was working)...

When I log on as the second user on my windows 10 laptop nothing works. I cannot click the start menu. I cannot right click anywhere. The first user works fine. The second is an administrator also as standard users cannot log on at all. Any ideas?

Hey guys, new member here in need of some serious help! So, I ended up deleting my other account and creating a new one with the same name on my computer. Any browser I'm using, when I choose to save a password for the website, it doesn't save! If I choose "Remember me", it doesn't. I originally...

I use Citrix to connect to my office computer from my home computer. For the past couple of weeks, I've been having trouble connecting. Sometimes it works, but more often it does not. The error message I get says the following: "The specified remote computer could not be found. Verify that...

please help me, whenever i log onto my laptop im prompted as other user then i am told password is incorrect. i then can switch to my proper account and i am fine. on user settings there is only my main account. why the hell is this happening.

Okay, where to start... I start off here. February 10th, 2014 I try to take the side off of my tower, and end up screwing something up. My dad is extremely handy and puts all of the screws back perfectly. However, when I log on, I get the "The RPC Server is Unavailable" error. However, Windows...

Hello folks, This time require your extreme help and knowledge. This has to do with my daughter's computer and her whole life is in the machine and it is messed up. All her data was on a Win 7 computer and i offered to install windows 8.1 on it for her. So I first uploaded some of the files to...

Hi A friend called and said he is getting this message when he tried to log into his Dell laptop. He can boot into safe mode. What can he do in safe mode to fix this? He lives quite a distance from me, so I'm hoping for something simple enough to explain over the phone. Thanks Mike