profile management

In order to create a User Account with a name that is identical to the User Names used on my two other computers (Vista platforms), I created a Local Account on 8.1 with the same User Name. Now that the account is in operation, is it possible to link that profile to my Windows account? My...

Hello everyone, total newbie when it comes to this stuff, but I desperately need to resolve why our computer keeps freezing frequently. I hope you can help. This is a relatively new computer (just a few months in operation) I have two separate profiles (besides "user" and "guest" which rarely...

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Where in the user profile are user environment variables stored? I had an issue that our IT support decided to fix by creating a new profile for me and then copying over what they thought I needed from the original profile. They missed my environment variables and I haven't been able to find...

I use Outlook 2007 for my schools e-mail. Periodically, I get a popup window that says Enter Network Password. I've never changed my password and it doesn't happen all the time, but right now it won't stop. I also deleted and re-added my account and it still won't stop. Also, not sure if this...

I just installed Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit on two machines, and then Firefox 16.0.1 on each. Trying to replace the password files in my new profile, I found that many of these folders and files (in User\me\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla) cannot be deleted, nor can their ownership be changed. They...

Hi all, I have a system that has only one option for login: a standard user w/o admin privileges. I'm trying to do a "Windows Easy Transfer" from an XP box. Anyway, in order to do that, I must have admin privileges on the offending W7 box. I have admin privileges for my own account, but I don't...

Hi To change the default profile in Windows 7 SP1 64-bit, during the its installation, I passed immediately in Audit mode by means of the Ctrl+Shift+F3 sequence. So, I have updated Windows 7 and I have configured it. Then, I put in the c:\windows\panther directory the Unattend.xml file...

i have problems with adobe cs6 installing, and it's been suggested i install it under a new profile. no problem with that, however, will i be able to access / run it under my 'normal' profile? if so, how do i go about this? finally, will doing this affect any of my existing programs in my...

After a HDD failure, carried out a clean install .. Now however I have ended up with some 'odd' account naming. I have the following view: Link Removed My account (administrator) instead of being .. 'Rick' is now 'Rick.Rick-Home-PC' I know that home-pc was name I gave to computer...

Lexmark Printer Problems I have a Lexmark Printer Optra E310. I am having problems getting it connected to my laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium. I know it can use the driver Lexmark Printer Optra E312. I downloaded the Lexmark Printer Driver Profile Management Tool. I do not know...

this is a learning center. The user profile starts out as default at the beginning class session. After the last class session, I want to reset it to default for the next class. what users\profile\folders need to be saved and restored to insure per user app & system configurations are...

I am facing the above problem when I open Outlook "Unable to open your default e-mail folders. You must connect to your Microsoft Exchange Server computer with the current profile before you can syncronize your folders with your offline folder file." I have tried to remove the profile and...

Why do i put my password in and it says group profiles could not start,access denied?? This is on a win.,7 64 bit laptop. How do i fix?

Hi, We've recently deployed Windows 7 64 bits in our school labs using MDT and on our image we've defined stuff in our "Default user" profile to those things are imported to any new accounts that logs on the computers. We're also using DeepFreeze to ensure that computers will be stable...

Hi I have installed SharePoint 2010 on my Windows 7 laptop, and it works fine. But all the services that are installed will always start and use a lot of resources, even when I don't use the application. It is possible to only start all the involved services (like SQL Server, IIS etc.)...

I've changed the location of my Chrome user profile folder, and created a shortcut which has –user-data-dir=”d:\new chrome user directory location" appended to its target. But when Chrome is opened any other way than via this shortcut, for instance when launching a web page file saved to my...

It's time to clean off Windows 7 and install it again. I do this periodically, and I've now settled on the software that will be installed... so it's time to get it done. I'm not in a rush to do this, so I'm trying to do it right :) I'm going to be doing a reinstall of |Firefox - I've been...

I am used to goingto c:\documents and settings and then ripping all the garbage out of ALL USERS so that stuff doesnt get handed out to every subsequent profile that gets added so how do I do that now ???? ddecoursey@eriecountygov.org

I keep getting the 2203 Error regardring MSI and tried several fixes including MS Utility Cleaner. Unfortuatlety it won't allow me to install it even as admin. So, I read someone's post in another forum to create a new profile, bring over all my stuff then just delete the old profile. It seems...