user id

I just bought a Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop at an auction for items confiscated by the police. I need to change the original user ID and password so I thought the security forum might be the place to ask this question. During startup, it flashed the Windows screen so I know that it has Windows...

We are a small group that share a PC and have separate User ID and password. Others who want to use the PC, can use as a guest account that does not need password. I want to load files on the PC and it should be password protected. It may be one with the User ID or guest. Can I create a disk...

- System - Provider [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-PnP [ Guid] {9C205A39-1250-487D-ABD7-E831C6290539} EventID 219 Version 0 Level 3 Task 212 Opcode 0 Keywords 0x8000000000000000 - TimeCreated [ SystemTime] 2014-06-13T03:42:44.627618500Z EventRecordID 4519 Correlation - Execution [...

Hello, I will be sharing my Windows 8 laptop with my brother. I would like to log into my laptop with my microsoft account while my bro will use a local account with his own user ID and password. I understand that signing in with a microsoft account will sync all my online details such as...

I have both a laptop and desktop running Windows 7 Home Premium. I set up a workgroup on the desktop and joined the network from the laptop. I can see and access the laptop from the desktop but when I try to access the desktop from the laptop I an being asked for a user id and password. I did...

I have checked my user ID and it shows I have all permissions available to me as the administrator. When I r-click on desktop, and select Gadgets, I get a message only admin can access Gadgets. I have other issues, but I'd like to deal with them one at a time.

Can anybody help me on this issue, I have changed my profile picture now many times but for somereason Facebook keeps changing my user id to somebody elses picture and i have no idea how to change it, has anybody else had the same issue or can anybody tell me how to change it???

I need to block access to IE for one user ID. From what I have read the Microsoft tool that did this is no longer supported for Windows 7.

Hi all. I have just joined this forum and this is my first post. I look forward to being a part of this support community. I maintain a website in which one folder on that website is protected by a password. In Windows XP and Windows Vista, the first time you try to access something in that...

I regularly log on to my account at the phone co. Recently the log-on page has rejected my user ID, says "not available". After many hassles, the phone co. rep suggested that I had a memory problem, I should "clear cache." Don't know how to do this. Please advise.

I have recently acquired a new computer running Windows 7 Professional that I would like to add to the network. Unfortunately, I have been unsuccessful in attempting it to join the local domain running Windows Server 2008R2. I’ve had no problems in doing this using the older Windows 2000...

Hi guys I've been trying to Break W7 build 7022 -- for ALL the apps I use (even legacy XP stuff for which there are no known VISTA / W7 updates) Build 7022 works 100%. Note this was an upgrade (XP===>VISTA ULTIMATE (32 Bit) ==>W7 Build 7022. Ony issues are 1) Can't uninstall Microsoft...

Hello, I am trying to setup my printer at work. It is a Canon iR C5185, and Windows 7 found the driver fine and has installed it. The problem I now have, is we have to use a printer ID to print, and I can't find anywhere at all to input this setting. Would love to get some help on this...