user management

Hi, I was following this tutorial: Group Policy - Apply to a Specific User or Group in order to setup group policy for certain users/groups. However, when I got to the "Browse for a Group Policy Object" dialogue box, the only tab present was Computers, there is no tab for selecting specific...

I have a Windows 8x64, Build 9200 system. There are two users: Administrator (me) and Joe. Joe has a password, and I want to remove his password. I logged on as Admin and can't find the option (Control Panel\Users) to remove another user's password, as I could in Windows 7. Thanks!

As I noted in an earlier post, this computer was a used gift from my son. Now I would like to take him off the computer (as main user) and place myself in that position. In the image below, he is listed as "Shawn" and I would like to place myself in this position. Admin, etc., removing him from...

(hopefully davehc will see this?) Downloaded you program on a new install on Dell inspirion Duo. Windows 7 premium. Did all updates first so machine was "virgin". Ran you install. Did mmc and add. The "group policy object" never appeared in list of add but a strange character (A with umlaut...

i run cmd in Elevated Command Prompt mode. i used commands such as; net user administrator * (but can not change password, the system error 5 has occured) net user administrator /delete (access is denied) net user administrator set /inactive net user administrator /inactive:yes but all these...

A thorough walkthrough of how to do a clean installation of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. In this walkthrough, we use Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition. This installation guide is part 1 of a larger feature currently in production, but will guide you completely through the initial...

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...

How can I convert the batch below for Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. When I ran this batch in Windows XP; it worked! but not on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. What this does? For example: I go to John Smith PC and you noticed that his username is smithj and domain: @@@@ was the last person that logon to that...

I on parental controls and a message appears that One of administrator account has no password then then i click on a standard user then i click ok but a message appear then do you want to force to have a password then i click yes. now when i log off the user. the admin account is locked up and...

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Hi Using Windows 8 Enterprise 64 bit, I have noticed that the full name of a local account (set with the net users "<username>" /fullname:"<full name>" command) is deleted whenever I switch from a Microsoft account to the local account associated with it. So, how do I have to prevent this...

Hi Windows 8 creates a roaming profile in the C:\Users directory using xxxxxx_000 subdirectories for each Microsoft account which is created. Apparently, these subdirectories are only temporary directories that are recreated each time a user logs on to Windows 8 via these accounts. Is there...

In my original post for creating a dropbox [folder], the client wanted a user to be able to be able to drop-only files 9mostly Word) into the folder, yet still be able to browse the contents of the folder. I have set permissions as below: administrator -- full control everyone-allow -- List...

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Hi folks , well it has been a while :D ,, hope everyone is ok !! .. well i have 2 users on my Pc laptop , one is administrator with password ( for me) and the other is Guest ( for guests ) ... now ; usually the one who is using the guest profile can't access my data unless he has the...

Hello all, Brand new user here. Trying to ad Hoc between a laptop with Win7 Startup and a home-build with Win7 Home Premium. I finally got each to see each other; however, all I can get to show in the Network icon of each system is C:\Users. In there I have Default and Default User (no Public...

I recently installed Windows 7. During installation, there will automatically be a user with administrative privileges. After completing, i created another "Standard User" as I wanted to limit other users for accessing all things. Then i opened the Built in Administrator account (net user...

Require a little assistance W7 64 slow start and drive problem This start slow andthe screen icon appear in full then closed down and slowly re appear Even the program as slow running Defaged hard drive ,registry cleaned No program show instart up section W7 set to performanceand ram to...

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?