user accounts

  1. Windows 8 Why do I have so many Users?

    Hi Today I was just looking through stuff, and I came upon my users list. Why do I see so many Users listed and can I safely remove some of them. I don't even know where these come from? Link Removed Link Removed What are these accounts that say Account Unknown? It would seem...
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    Windows 7 XP Virtual Machine Issue

    Hi all, Basically, I have just created an XP Virtual Machine under my username for a PC. From what it looks like, I have no applications installed on this VM. However, if I log into another user from the same PC, I am able to access the applications that I need from their XP Virtual Machine...
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    Windows 7 User Environment Variables in Profile

    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...
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    Windows 8 Making parental controls permanent

    I have a 15 year old son. He was on his laptop as an administrator but was accessing websites that were not allowed. I went in and added myself as an administrator and then changed his account to "standard user" so that I could then set the parental controls. Apparently, however, he was able...
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    users login time limit

    Hello. I have 3 users in my pc. I want to control their logon time. example: user1 6 hr perday. or user 1 login time 1pm - 6pm. How can i do this?
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Network Issue

    Hello, I am near my wits end with Windows 7 networking! I am running Windows 7 home premium on my desktop which I am now using for my business. I have a folder containing my files that I share over my network to 4 other computers, also running windows 7. If a network user creates a file it...
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    Windows 7 Win7 second-user (account) permissions trouble

    Hi, I have this problem of which I couldnt figure the solution on my own. I am using Win7 Home 64 and I have created second user account on it. My goal is basically to restrict this account from any access besides Program Files Windows folder and his user profile (C:\Users\SecondUser\..) I...
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    Windows 8 Trouble with User Accounts and Admin Password on Windows 8 Laptop

    I bought a laptop with win 8 installed. Pretty much a PIA until I installed Classic Shell. Upon start up I created the first user account, admin. Upon every boot up, I get a plain blue screen asking for admin password to access. With Classic Shell I went into control panel and created 2...
  10. Ask Us Anything by 12/8/2012!

    Ask Us Anything! Promotion ends: December 8, 2012 How is your Windows 8 experience going this holiday season? We want to improve your experience at Windows8Forums.com. And that's why we are currently having a short, quiet, and great holiday promotion! To celebrate the opening of our Windows 8...
  11. Windows 8 IF Only You

    Many may, already, know this... IF you are the only person accessing your Desktop PC IF you have no reason to think it could or would be used by another person, certainly not w/out you knowing. IF it 'demands' a P/W @ Bootup IF you would rather not bother w/ that... > cmd (Admin) Type...
  12. Windows 7 IF Only You

    Many may, already, know this... IF you are the only person accessing your Desktop PC IF you have no reason to think it could or would be used by another person, certainly not w/out you knowing. IF it 'demands' a P/W @ Bootup IF you would rather not bother w/ that... > cmd (Admin) Type...
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    Windows 7 Mystery registry change upon change of account type

    Can anyone point me to documentation of the effect wherein HKCU registry keys showing to regedt32 and apps change when the user's account type is changed? A user of account type Standard installed an app which created some config keys, and regedt32 showed these keys fine, under...
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    Windows 8 Non Standard User Profile - Unable to Sign In to Store - Apps Do Not Work

    Hi All, I'm looking for some advice on troubleshooting the following issue!:) To explain, Windows 8 Pro (X64) was installed by way of a clean install utilising audit mode to configure the User Profile folder location to a new partition on a secondary drive (D:\Users). The 'main' user...
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    Windows 7 User Account Problem..Help !!!

    Sir I have Win7 professional pc with three partitions c:,d:,e:. I have two user accounts: Administrator and Admin. When i log into Administrator account, my saved files don't show up on the desktop although i can access those files manually through the path c:\>users>Administrator>desktop. I...
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    Windows 7 Windows User Problem.. (help!!!)

    Hi. I can ONLY login to administrator accounts, if I set one account as a "standard user" i can not login to it. I've tried making new user accounts, it doesn't work. Please help? This computer is new....
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    Windows 7 windows 7 file sharing

    Hi I am trying to share files between pc and mac over lan. I am having trouble figuring it out. I have read a lot of different tutorial on the subject which only made me more confused. The main thing I dont understand is I read that to share files on the mac you need to enable password...
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    Windows 7 Picture show in all users

    How can one add pics and videos to their windows without showing on other persons window
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    Windows 7 Issues with Persistent Login Screen on New HP Desktop After Setup

    I just purchased an HP desktop. After setup, I kept getting dropped out to the login as soon as the computer was idle. I was told this was a registry problem and to go to safe mode and run SFC. That did not resolve the problem. Then I was advised to simply disable the login by going to RUN...
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    Windows 7 Network Sharing a Password Protected Folder on Home Network

    This question is long and has been written about much in many strings in this and other forums. None have worked for me to date.:cool: I think that the issue may be that the provider of answers to these other similar questions seem to assume that the overall setup of the machine in question...