user accounts

when I try to open a folder on a phone connected to pc. the folder on phone show up, but when I click on any folder, windows file explorer when close, the screen flash for 1 second then come back. I tried both windows phone, and android phone, also different user accounts, all doing the same...

I have tried: support microsoft /kb/947215/eng <- Can't post a website link :/ But my SID key is the same key as the key of the temporary account ending in 1001 The only diffrence is that my SID code is 1001.bak Also, there is a 1001, 1001.bak, 1003, 1004 and a 1005 SID key. 1003 to 1005 are...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (December 9, 2014): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the VBScript scripting engine in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user visits a specially...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (December 9, 2014): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker convinces a user to open or preview a...

Hi, for some reason today I signed in as usual & it boots in a black empty screen with a small window saying " Win explorer is not responding". in CTRL-ALT DEL I choose change user to "Administrator" & it boots OK. On this user I do not have all my usual progs & dada. Any way to recover this...

Windows ( in the case Vista home Premium a system i am restoring on a VAIO for a friend). Setting it up with an Admin account and a standard user account. a Few questions: When is the best time to add the standard user account for everyday use? Here is why i ask, i notice that sometimes certain...

Hi, I'm Jenn, also new to these forums. I stumbled upon a problem when switching from Windows 7 x64 to Windows 8.1 Pro x64. I have the EXACT same setup, same laptop, same hardware, same programs, same configuration, everything. Windows 7 never did anything like the problem I now have in Win 8.1...

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Really like the multiple Desktops. @ 1st thought it was much like Alt-Tab or hovering across Taskbar, basically, another View/Select approach. In 7 (& 8) would run more than one tabbed browser grouping related sites in each. This does that and on a higher level. Can EASILY be done by...

Sometimes (not every time) when I log into one account on my laptop (there are 3 accounts on the laptop), folder attributes ('show hidden files', 'hide extensions') get reset to their default values. I then need to change the settings (turn 'show hidden files' on, turn 'hide extensions' off)...

Press the Windows key+ R keys simultaneously to open the Run dialog box. Type control userpasswords2 in the run prompt and press Enter key. Click on your Microsoft account, uncheck the “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer box”. Do the instructions and you are done. OK...

First i had w8.1 installed on my laptop wich i configured using my windows account, now when i also installed this on my pc, i used the same login account. So now i have 2 loginscreens on my laptop, and each time is startup my laptop he tells me my login account and/or password are incorrect...

For a while now I have been living with this. Link Removed I have been asking around on numerous forums for help but have yet to find any. I am unable to open any apps but the store and when I tried to uninstall and reinstall some apps I was met by an 0x80070002 error. It's not serious because...

So currently I was promoted from a standard user to an administrator, and now wish to demote myself using my administrator account. Is this possible? I tried going into Accounts in PC Settings, but there was no tab to manage accounts. Should I go to the control panel, or do I have get the...

Windows 8.1 Hi, I had an issue with the general user folder name, which was shown as "Alex_000". Although this was a cosmetic issue only, I wanted to change this to "Alex". I successfully managed this by changing about 50 entries in the registry (via regedit). So fine so good. Now I found...

I'm running Windows 7 on HP Pavillion. I'm having trouble with family account showing devices and printers window with items in it, just a blank screen. See attachment. My administration side of accounts shows the items in window. See attachment. I created a new account call Test and it shows...

I'm on a net work that is shared. I have recently noticed event logs of another user logging on to my laptop. The first log on used my credentials and a name similar to mine. The next one was of that person changing the credentials and authority of that log on. After that there quit a few logs...

Hi Guys Will apologise in advance for the vagueness of what I am about to ask. First of all, I will tell you what I have, and what I have done/planned to do. I have a server that is running Windows Server Standard. It has Active Directory installed and the client PC's are connected to the...

I've recently been having problems with setting my account picture. It will come up with an error every time I try to change it. I haven't changed my account picture in 6 days nor been on my computer in 6 days (which I doubt affects it). I actually had this problem before (a month and a week ago...

I want my Win7-Pro box to auto start (BIOS Power mgmt Time Set) and launch automated scheduled application. I had to disable UAC so it can start and run like my old XP. This works with one account and no password. I wanted full admin permissions so I created 2nd acct, super-admin with...