user management

My personal account is setup as admin by default but prefer to set it with user rights. Before I do that I would like to create an Admin account to cover admin issues when needed. When the admin user account is created it only shows one field for entering the new password and no 2nd field to...

Fixes an issue in which the Log On To feature of the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in does not work. This issue occurs on a Windows 7-based or Windows Server 2008 R2-based client computer that has six or more Traditional Chinese characters... Link Removed

Hi Guys, I have a win7 pro laptop that my boss uses currently. The problem is this laptop is currently connected to domain A. My boss is going overseas to visit one of our sub company which have domain B. He do not need domain A while he is overseas. If he have an account previously in...

hello, I have created a standard user. my requirements: 1. standard user can install programs, which is saved for future uses (i have seen pcs where the programs are deleted/uninstalled as soon as the user log out) 2. standard user CANNOT re-install windows by inserting a windows disc at...

I have been looking all day and it seems like there is barely any information on FUS out there. So if anyone has any information on it it would help greatly. Mostly on whether or not you can set up idle timeouts for inactive users, what it does to the credential provider when the user is...

Hi there I hope someone knows this but is there a good software out there that helps you set policy and restrictions on your PC? Like Novell but less expensive and for your desktop. I have found a couple but it does not have things like disallowing someone to use f8 or anything like it to by...

I'm setting up a semi public computer, but we want to limit it to a group of about 50 people. Can I give them each a standard account, username and password? Or is that too many users? I'd like to be able to log them separately so that they can be billed according to the time used. Any ideas...

Hi all, I just got a brand new computer. It was a gift from my parents. Since my parents know pretty much next to nothing about computers, they got my brother to order it for me. It seems that when the computer arrived he took it out of the box and named the computer and the user file after...

Hi! I have windows 7 ultimate installed, with multiple admin accounts. What I want is a private folder, that would be not be accessible to other admins. The problem is that other admins can take ownership of my folder and change permissions. What can I do? (besides using specialized third...

HI - I'm building a W7 PRo PC for a local club and want to lock down the PC. I have setup an Admin account, and set the main user account as a Standard account. I also want them to be able to use W7 Backup/Restore to backup the Standard Users "My Documents" folder to memory stick on a weekly...

I want to specify from command line that user "Karl" has Full access to local folder (and subfolders) D:\proj\logs Which command is recommended here: cacls or "net share" What is the difference? Is "net share" for folders the same as "cacls" for files? Peter

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Hello, I can't login in Guest user. My administrator account is working properly and without any problems, but my guest account doesn't. When I login to that account then its automatically logging off and coming back to the login Screen. I created standard user, but anyway I can't login there...

I was kind of thrown into the issue of allowing a user to have admin rights on their own system, eg., download various programs like Firefox, Adobe stuff, and before I go in to muddle things up, I must ask how to do this..... Many thanks in advance. imgain

Hi, I am from the IT process re-enginneering/development side and the company I work for has just decided to build a server for around 15 users. Mainly file sharing. As previous experiences I have left that to our networking guys so really no experience whatsoever. What I'm looking for is if...

When I upgraded to Vista I had a folder system which had been developed over many years and had no interest in Vistas pre installed sytem, so I installed my old file system named UserName in C:\Users\LoginName\Documents\UserName. This turned out to be a poor choice. Now I want to move to a new...

The Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS provides an easy and convenient way to leverage services within the Windows Azure Platform from an iPhone or iPad. In this video, Link Removed—Principal Program Manager at Microsoft—explains how to use the latest release to leverage the Access Control Service...

trying to set-up some specific folder permissions here at work. on this one folder i would like a specific user to only be able to create files, read them but not be able to modify any existing files. how do i set-up the folder permissions for this? >advanced security settings would it be...

Hello, I am experiencing a problem in my win7 operating system. I have created a user & the user is not able to write to the C: I tried giving permissions but it gives access denied & file is in use error. how to give effective permissions to the user to use C: to write a temp file. Thanks Amol

hi all. i upgraded my Serever from Standard to Enterprise and setup a domain. the reason is that i run a pos (point of sale program). what i am trying to accomplish is make certain files/folder not accessable for some users. i have one set for those working on tills, a second for...