user accounts

  1. Windows 8 Error 0x80070002 without system restore

    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...
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    Windows 8 Demoting Your Account with Your Account

    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...
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    Windows 8 "Add or Remove Programs" doesn´t work anymore (in Metro)

    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...
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    Windows 7 Trying to figure out if my computer is on a Workgroup or Homegroup

    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...
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    How can i stop other network user from logging on to my laptop?

    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...
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    Windows Server Standard removal from Domain

    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...
  7. Windows 8 Account Picture Error

    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...
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    Windows 7 Auto Login w/ Two Accounts

    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...
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    Windows 8 How to change owners

    I have a laptop that I set up as normal when I installed win 8, with my account as the only one. It has some personal files and data that I don't mind losing but I don't want to leave them on the laptop. I want to give it to my daughter and put her on as the main computer user/administrator and...
  10. Windows 7 Monitor screen goes black when switching user (No Signal) message

    Hi, guys I currently have Windows 7 and am having a problem when attempting to switch users. I lock or log off from one account, click on switch user, and there is no signal. How do I resolve this issue?
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    Windows 7 Win 7 Login Requests Password for Wrong User Account

    Over the week-end something strange happened to one of our Windows 7 systems. It worked fine on Friday, was shut down for the week-end. When turned on this morning everything appeared normal. There are six user accounts set up on the system. No matter which one you choose to log in to, it...
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    Windows 7 windows 7 manage user accounts blank pls help

    I installed windows 7 into a new hard disk and created 105 user accounts. From accounts 1 - 100 I can see manage other user accounts (1 - 100 only),but If I log into 101 - 105 and try to manage other accounts I can see its blank. I enabled the built in administrator account even with that...
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    Windows 7 Why are there 2 Picture folders in my libraries folder in my Windows 7 ?

    Have an Admin user acc. and a personal user acc. When I'm in personal acc. always see 2 'Pictures' folders in Libraries pane, there is under each a sub folder each named 'My Pictures' and both have different amount of photos, most are similar Photos. First 'Picture' has a 'My Pictures' and a 'My...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 - Launch Bat after installation (SetupComplete?)

    Hello guys! I'm wondering about a script I made after the installation of my Windows 7 x64 ISO is done. The script (bat) contains this: How should I implant this script after the Win7 installation is done. Tried with SetupComplete (see spolier): Problem is, I cant use GPO either...
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    Windows 8 Saving space on SSD machine running Win 8.0

    I have an SSD machine with 90 Gbytes of storage running at home, not connected to server. I use a USB drive for extra capacity but I seldom have much spare space on C: as I have SQL server and Visual Studio installed. Looking at storage use on C: I notice 1.7 Gbytes of files in...
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    Windows XP xp always want to login as guest - help!

    Hi, I am really perplexed by this problem i am having with my XP system. After a reboot the system always presents a Guest logon dialog box even after I login as another user. I got really pissed and disabled guest account. Now I get this stupid behavior shown in the attached pic. The system...
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    Windows 7 Can't login as someone else in Windows 7

    Hi, hoping someone can help me with this issue. I have Windows 7 installed. I created an account with username 'me' for myself with admin privileges. There are other accounts on the system such as Administrator, Guest, etc. But now whenever I reboot the winlogon allows me to only login as...
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    Windows 7 computer name showing different

    I've searched for this problem for a while now on Google but haven't been able to find anything that addresses this problem. We use AD accounts here for users and workstations. I have 1 workstation that shows the computer name correctly in the system properties but the start menu lists the...
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    Windows 7 Restoring a damaged Windows.old folder?

    Suffered a head crash on a laptop's C: drive. Was able to recover nearly all the data using Linux tools, but the boot sector and some critical Win 7 files were damaged beyond recovery, so I have been unable to create a bootable volume using that info. I cloned the data to a new physical volume...
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    Windows 7 Folder permission script

    I need to create a script that deny's all privilages to a folder for all users. the program runs from a hidden directory under individual user accounts is the tricky thing. example User A: did not install the program and cannot see that the program is installed. User B: installed the program and...