user credentials

Moving a users documents etc. from an old PC to a new one is quite simple but my tecs all tend to do this differently and the results are mediocre.. How do you get about easily migrating everything including browser favorites and credentials from mainly Edge, Chromium Edge, Chrome and Firefox...

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Hello. I have a partition holding my data and another for the Windows installation, I like to edit the save locations so that common folders (Documents, Music, Videos etc) all get redirected to my data drive, but since I reinstalled W10 it now complains saying "You don't currently have...

In our final post of the Windows 10 by 10 development series, we’ll talk about the feature introductions and enhancements in Windows 10 that help you create more secure apps. When we think of security, we can split it up in these three main areas: authentication, data-in-flight and data-at-rest...

Hi, I've just upgraded to 8.1. I was always able to login as a different user and use my work network user credentials i.e. workgroup\username. On this version I can do this. I can only add users once logged in and switch between them on the login screen. This version doesn't show the 'login...

Ok, originally i was trying to network two Windows 7 machines, a desktop and laptop. Now i've had total success with previous versions of Windows. Now after configuring the details of both machines like the Workgroup name and Ip addresses and etc. I had no luck. So to not be undone by this i...

I am setting up an image to duplicate on our student laptops this year and have run into a strange problem. Our computers are on a Domain and the image works great but when a new user logs on with their Domain credentials, all of the stock active tiles are blank and unresponsive. We can have the...

Hi, I just wanted to know how to get rid of using passwords when accessing windows 8 and my computer. I didn't used to have to butI some how changed something. Find windows 8 very confusing. you can e/m me at [Removed to prevent spam e-mails - Mike] Any help is appreciated. Arlen

Let me give you a better description of the problem... I follow the instruction from the Gmalto instructions to install and configure Dell smart card USB Keyboard. This means I loaded the drivers for WudfUsbccidDrv and check Manager and it looks it recognizes the smart card and the smart card...

When you try to map to a network drive of a DFS Share by a Windows Vista-based or Windows 7-based computer, you receive an error message. This behavior is by design. This article describes a way to work around this behavior. Link Removed

Fixes an issue in which the Mount command does not access an NFS share by using the user credentials that you specified. This issue occurs on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

Fixes an issue in which the operating system may stop responding at the Welcome screen after you enter the user credentials to log on to a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

I have two Windows 7 Ultimate computers and around 10 Windows XP (Home and Professional, SP2 and SP3) computers trying to connect to it. It's just a LAN (no internet access). I have set all of the password-protected sharing off on the Win 7 systems. I have tried opening up ALL of the...

helloo i have Lan, all computers are windows 7 proffisional and one machine is windows 2003 , workgroup . i made shared folder in windows2003 , some computers can access the shared folder and others can not. when i open network , i see the 2003 computer, when i try to access it , it asked for...

Fixes an issue in which you cannot find the excluded default folders in the user profile if you use user credentials to log on a Windows 7-based or Windows Server 2008 R2-based client computer in a domain environment. These folders are excluded from the... More...

when I try to access Win7 from XP, I am always asked for a username and password. I put in the win7 details & nothing happens. Can I avoid having to sign in each time I try to access the networked Win7 PC? Thanks

I'm having trouble using Remote Desktop Connection from my Windows 7 device (32-bit Home Premium). I have used my home WinXP laptop device to access my office WinXP device through RDC for many years (and still can). I've recently upgraded my home WinXP desktop device to Windows 7 and would like...

Guys, I've recently changed my home computer over from WinXP to Win7. On my WinXP system, I had a permanently mapped drive to my "My Documents" directory on my work laptop (WinXP Pro). Once I had plugged my laptop into my home network (and powered it up of course), all I would need to do on my...

Hi all, I have a bit of a problem with windows 7 professional x64. When I first installed it some time ago I was able to set up a homegroup and share files on my home network with another win 7 pc and an xbox with no problems at all. All was good until I had to reinstall windows on my machine...

My home network has a networked hard drive. When I first started using Windows 7, (build 7100), I had no problems mapping it and reconnecting automatically at every logon. Recently, (last month or so), I have found that when I try to map the network drive I get an error: "The account is not...