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Hello, I have a windows shared folder between me and my brothers Locally on the network. My problem is that. I have to share this folder with them so they have access to my stuff and I have access to there stuff. Is there a way to stop that? What I mean is there a way to give them there each own...

Hi, After many attempts I still can't remove the start-up password from my laptop. Its a password with complex requirements (like AAAaaa1234@$%^#) that needs to be changed every 2 months. That's way too much trouble just for editing bird pictures on this old machine and annoying to use for...

Hello, we are facing an issue where the domain admin accounts are becoming locked randomly. We have filtered out the event 4740 in the windows security log and we can see the PCs triggering this lockdown. ------------------------------------- A user account was locked out. Subject: Security ID...

HI Just got a message from Skype, (ostensibly) saying they were charging my account $10 because my credit account was low. I've never seen this before and I never make any pay calls on Skype anyway. I think I make a yearly payment that lets me call any phone in the US or Canada, but that's...

My computer was being super slow, and I typed in misconfig in the search bar on the screen after it let me in. Then I checked a bunch of boxes that were running after hiding some boxes that I didn’t want to stop running, and now I can’t access my computer. It says that the pin is unavailable...

When my PC emerges from sleep mode, I am confronted first with a Microsoft Spotlight screen, followed by a login screen. The latter is just a button labeled "Login". I would like to bypass these screens and go straight to my home desktop screen. I've tried the Lockscreen options under...

dont want to be on a dead forum that doesnt seem to respect our data not sure what company owns this site or who runs it, and there doesnt seem to be any transparency or any real contacts for this site where are steps, or where to completely delete our account

I have 2 gmail accounts. Today,one of them showed up in Russian. A long time ago, I had a similar problem, but that time it appeared to be Chinese. So I went ahead and changed passwords on both accounts as a precaution. I don't remember what I did for the Chinese situation, but perhaps the...

My Win 10 boots to the Admin account and I have to navigate from there to my private account. How can I make it boot directly to my private account?

Hi, I hope this is in the right section. I've got a Windows 10 machine running in virtualbox. What I want to to do is make one of the fake users that I have created have a corrupt profile so that when they try logging on, they get an error message saying they are being logging on with a...

Dear all, I am looking to clone programs etc from Windows "regular user account" to "administrator account". Basically i want to log with administrator account and have everything exactly the way i have with the user account i use now. The reason for moving to administrator account is because...

I cant seem to find the answer to this question (title) but a family member keeps messing with me ressetting my pc without using my password only from the lock screen. Is there any way to disable that option so the only way you can reset the PC is using a administrator password?? and is there...

I am having a problem with Gmail. I get the following message when i click on my mail icon: We couldn't access this account: Gmail. You might need to update your password or give account permission to sync to this device. Has anyone ever receive this type of message.? I already changed my...

Hey! I have a laptop that is broken. I would like to see all my windows subscriptions so I know that I can move the windows from the broken one onto a new one. Where can I see all the Windows subscriptions that are registered to my account? Thanks!

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...

Preparing to give away my old Win 10 laptop, I reset Windows which deleted all my files. Finally, I need to delete my administrator account so no trace of my ownership remains. How?

I can't log into my e-mail address on my laptop because I let my wife enter her e-mail on my pc to use it. She did this because she couldn't perform some important functions on her phone. The pc 's OS is Windows 10 Pro and the browser is Firefox

I've just recently changed my password to log into my account. I've used a password for a while and I changed it to a PIN via the security and 'hello' options . Now, each time I turn the PC on I'm greeted with a message saying that the profile can't be loaded. I then have the usual login...

On the user accounts there is no tick box for 'Users must enter ... etc'. https://www.partitionwizard.com/images/uploads/articles/2020/09/disable-login-screen-windows-10/disable-login-screen-windows-10-1.png

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10, version 21H1 Build 19043.1200 (KB5005101) to the Release Preview Channel for those Insiders who are on Windows 10, version 21H1. This update includes the following improvements: We fixed an issue that prevents users from tracking...