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I have everything running smoothly on my standard account but the admin account is problematic. --When I download a photo and try to open it, I get a message: Invalid value for registry -- photo will not open. I ran a sfc scan and nothing came up as being corrupt. So no solution. --The apps...

Apparently when setup is complete, the user is the administrator. It's been so long since I set up a new system I don't remember how it played out. Should I set up a standard account or is win10 so protected (which I have heard) that I can just have one user account, admin? Thanks.

I'm starting fresh with Win10 and I'm restoring from a Win7 backup, which had three users: one admin account using a first name, and two standard accounts using names like "John's iTunes" and "Mary's iTunes". My restore will have these names under "Users". I thought I should set up the...

I have a relatively new laptop and am setting it up. I created one local administration account and one local standard account for my one of my Laptops. However, when i log in to my local standard account I am prompted by UAC asking if windows command processor can make changes to my PC. I have...

Hi. For a long time ago, I installed thunderbird mail on my computer but realised after a while that I accidently installed into the administrator account...with lots of configuration, imap,server syncs. I wanted this program to be ran from the standard account instead! (using for regular...

When i click a standard account i makeit just said Logging out and took me to the choosing User account screen i even tried it in safe mode but it didnt work

Can anyone tell me how to Remote Desktop Connection connect to a Win 7 standard account? All attempts to Remote Desktop Connection connect to a Win 7 standard account fail with: Link Removed Attempts to the same account change to administrator succeed. But I cannot afford the risk of this...

I'm setting up a semi public computer, but we want to limit it to a group of about 50 people. Can I give them each a standard account, username and password? Or is that too many users? I'd like to be able to log them separately so that they can be billed according to the time used. Any ideas...

Hi there, we've got Windows 7 Professional and we have set up a standard account for the kids. I don't know how to limit the software they can use in their account. For example we have skype but we don't want them to have that in their account (which they do at the moment). How can we change...

Hi Folks, A Newbie to this forum, but used to post regularly on xp/vista forums (before shutdown) and http://www.gadgetdetective.com. The problem i have is with a group machine running 7 64bit (build 7600) with 1xAdim (myself) & 4xStd Accounts. However when i turn on the guest account,then...

I am/have tried to create a new user account, specifically to take the place of a suspected corrupt user account (per MS Moderator posts re Excel not responding repeatedly when copying). I have looked around the web, MS support sites, and read posts all over a couple of forums and am trying to...

Hi, I am finally going to be installing Windows 7 Ultimate and I would love to hear suggestions on how I can setup my computer so I have a regular account and a developer account. I would like to format either account without affecting the other? I'm not sure if this would require dual boot. My...

This is possible the lamest question to ask, so late in the OS game, but I can't seem to find anything on it anywhere (probably just don't know how to google for it!). I run Windows 7, and of course have the normal Administrator account that one creates when installing. I wan't to create a...

Hi everyone, I happened to disable my 'Administrator' account from the group policy editor. I have two other accounts, one, a standard account and another one, a guest account. Every time I do something that requires administrator privileges, A dialog appears asking 'To continue, type an...

Hi I have a problem running a new program, as a standard user. I dont really know, if the problem is Win7 og the program or just my lack of knowledge. I have win7 64bit up and running, and so far very content. I have created an administrator account, and a standard account. I want to run my...

Hi, I installed 7RC from MS, all went fine, I've not done anything unusual in the setup, all updates are installed, graphics ok etc. I created the initial account admin account, then from that a second admin. Changed to that admin account, set it up etc, and created 3 other Standard accounts...

Hello! I just got a computer with Windows Vista Premium. So far, so good. I have a question about making programs installed in Admin available to standard accounts. I set up iTunes in an admin account complete with music files, etc. I also set up a standard account for web surfing. When I...