user management

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...

So did Microsoft take this ability away making it even harder than it already is to use? In a corporate environment, this can make it a nightmare, or am I missing something?:hopelessness:

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...

Can you set a user on windows home so there can't change there password? Can you set a expiration date on Windows 7 home password? Is there a default expiration on win 7 home?

Hi, We have a network of Windows 7 computers. Group X wants to share their files between each other without sharing with others outside Group X? How can they do that? We don't have Active Directory. Thank you for your answers.

LOCAL SERVICE and NETWORK SERVICE accounts cannot be deleted Link Removed

Hi , I have a question about WinServer2008 and Group Policies,I wanted to know that when we want to apply group policy on a some domain users, do we simply have to add the domain users into OU 1st and then apply Group Policy on them? I hope I am clear Thanks

Hi I have Windows 7 SP1 and I want to create a custom default profile so that, when I will have to create the local accounts, they already will have the custom profile. Thanks Bye

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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