password issues

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...

Windows users often find themselves in unexpected situations where they are tied out of their computers due to password issues. Occasionally, Windows may prompt you to input a password when you have never set one. This situation can arise due to various reasons such as security features, data...

I had moved to another area and when I try to remember passwords/access names I get errors from the websites.. I have different sites with different names/sources historically, from XP, WIndows 7, 8.1,10 and now with 11. I suspect that Windows remember passwords/usernames from history. How do...

So I'm the poor schmuck that gives a crap about backups. I have scripts that are supposed to run every night, but due to IT corporate domain nonsense they make me change my password. The scripts are run from a local admin account (non-domain) but every time I change my network password, all...

I am in a loop where my computer keeps restarting at the mentioned loop how do I fix this? I do not have access to the recovery console because I do not have the password.

Specifics: I use a Dell core i3 laptop (10 months old). The operating system is windows 8.1. There are two users: myself being primary (admin), and my daughter being secondary. I switch the laptop on, then enter the password, what the laptop refuses to accept. Though, my daughter (as secondary...

Having been encouraged to upgrade to Fall Creators Update I experienced problems with windows freezing. Eventually, I decided to cut my losses and return to the old version of W10. Now I find I need a password to access Windows. I've tried several and believe one of them is correct but it tells...

hello all - FIRST TIME POSTING QUESTION we have a win-8 drive that is being pulled out of a dell box that had a win login& password established. if i were to install this drive into a win-10 box as a secondary drive (drive-D or drive-E perhaps with a usb internal-2-external housing), will...

Hello'n'stuff! I've recently purchased a copy of Sandra 2016, but cannot figure out how to register for their "ranker" system. The FAQ doesn't address my issues, nor do any of the articles in their support center, and they won't reply to me via e-mail. From what I can understand according to...

Hi Today one of my friends called and we were trying to fix his computer throwing a critical error every time he boots up. Microsoft's solution it to boot into Safe Mode and then reboot back into normal mode again. So I told him over the phone how to boot into safe mode using msconfig...

Recently I have been pressed relentlessly to register to MS emailing. I never heard of this before & always logged in with my own email address &password. As at times I could not continue I accepted for their em address not knowing what I was letting myself in to. The thing infiltrated...

I downloaded Windows 10 last night and it was working great until I did a restart to update my AVG . Then it wouldn't accept my Microsoft password to log in to my laptop . I am able to log in to my Microsoft account on my tablet and I even changed my...

I have read all the tutorials online and keep getting hung up at one part. I right clicked a folder in Windows 8 and chose "share with homegroup" I then went on the Mac and went to "Connect to server" and entered the PCs IP It then came up with a login box but nothing works in the password...

When I set up this computer I connected to my wifi router at the other end of the house, but due to the distance I got poor connectivity and performance. So I purchased a wifi repeater and positioned it nearer to this computer. I disconnected from the router and connected to the new repeater...

I have a problem I have two win 7 machines one is a 32 bit and the other is a 64 bit. They are both connected to a network wirelessly. The machine that has the router is a XP machine. On the two win 7 machines i am trying to Wac into the other to have access to all the files on it so I do not...

My wife's computer has Win.7 64 Bit and Win.Live Mail for E Mail. We are on ATT. DSL internet. The Live Mail will work for a while,then it won't connect. It says we put in the wrong password. I don't understand because nothing has been changed. I don't know how Windows Live Mail works. The...

Here is what happened. I went to administrator tools > Computer management > Local users and groups > Users. Now I double clicked on the main user account. Then I switched to the 'member of' tab. I deleted the things whatever present over there. Then I restarted the system. Now I can...

I have a windows 7 os on my main pc and xp pro on my laptop. when i try to access files on my main pc (windows 7) from my xp pro laptop I get asked for a user name and password. Yet when I do it the other way round I have full access with out any password ect. I have not set up any passwords and...

My personal account is setup as admin by default but prefer to set it with user rights. Before I do that I would like to create an Admin account to cover admin issues when needed. When the admin user account is created it only shows one field for entering the new password and no 2nd field to...

Hi there, As written in the title my problem is about win7. This is what happened. Ive been working on the administrator account for more than 2 years, left it as it was yesterday. When I came back my account was assigned with guest authorization instead of administrator's. While I was working...