user management

Hey, I have registered here to solve this problem, I am very upset because of it, please help me out: I've set an automatic logon feature on the OS a few days ago (through 'contol userpasswords2'), it worked nice, no problems, suddenly today I've tried to access it again to remove it, then it...

Hi i just bought windows home premium for my family i made three user accounts on my computer one for my self and two for my sons. I am pretty good with computers but because windows 7 is a little different i need some help. Lets get to my Question. I want to make my kids accounts: be...

Hi. I have 3 computers under the same workgroup with a Shared folder. Server (Windows 7) User 1 (Windows Xp) User 2 (Windows Xp) User 1 and 2 Have the shared folder as a mapped network drive. Now what we need is: inside the Shared folder there is another folder called Admin which I only want...

In this presentation, we will discuss how to enable Parental Controls for a user. Enabling Parental Controls is pretty simple. What we want to do is go to the Start Menu under Windows 7, Control Panel, and we have an option under the Category View to Add or Remove User Accounts. At this time, we...

Hi, Is there any way to disable specific user account(s) AUTOMATICALLY as per schedule set using administrative accounts. The account should not be permanently disabled nor should it be necessary to enable / disable it manually every time. If Windows 7 does not have any such feature, is there...

Hello windows7forums community, I've made a bit of a whoopsey in lusrmgr.msc and have managed to set the password for the hidden admin account; which is fine - the problem is that I also removed the only local user's membership of the administrators group forgetting to check that I had enabled...

I'm a 7 newbie. I wish to setup a Standard user account without password for visitors. I will employ parental controls to limit access to most programs. How do I edit the Start menu of the newly created Standard user account so that the restricted programs are not visible? At the moment, the...

Hi all, Been using Win7 since beta. However, i just now installed it at work and this is the first time i'm using win7 joined to a domain. I assuming being joined to a domain is what's causing the problem. The problem being that each time the UAC prompt comes up, i dont just get a yes/no...

Hola, For Win XP Pro I was using Traffic Shaper XP, its free and as long as installed on each individual machine and setup properly I can limit each PC on my networks bandwidth usage at any given time. It just runs in the background. Dont get me wrong I have like a T2 Down stream and a T1...

How to prevent other users from using removable driver and other security option via Group editor policy. I have 2 accounts. One is named admin and the other as user. How to change these setting for the user named user. Its a limited account,so the GPE is not accessible in that account. Tell me...

Hi everyone! I have a problem that’s making me want to pull my hair out, sorry if there is already a topic on this as the search function on this site would not work (database error) and Google returned nothing specific. I recently got a new PC with Windows 7, which is turning out to be a bit...

Joined the domain as the administrator in Windows 7 in my initial setup of the PC with no problem. When I tried to log in to the domain as one of the users on the domain to set up the PC on the end users side, I could not log in. I received the following error message: "You cannot log on...

Prior to the Windows updates of 12/15/09 I was local administrator, now I am a standard user with my previous profile wiped out. And my Shutdown and Restart items are greyed out. Any ideas out there?

Need some help with this problem and after much Googling (an awful verb) i cannot find an answer. I'm trying to stop users from changing the Properties of Network Connections - in particular the IP Address. Using Group Policy editor i can set the relevant policies to 'Enable' and in Win XP this...

I am running Windows 7 Home Premium and want to delete a specific folder. It shows in a Recyling Window that there is some activity and identifies 1915 items and 165 MB but it never finishes and I have to force it to stop. The folder I am referring to is a user folder named "Bob". I had deleted...

Hello I would like to relocate my home directory, se blow From C:\Users\Public to D:\Users\Public and from C:\Users\Fredrik to D:\Users\Fredrik When I create a new user can I automaticly have his/her home directory at D:\users\My_New_Users_Name? Best Regards Fredrik Andersson I use Windows...

Hello, Firstly, I am fairly technologically apt, but am certainly worlds away from being well versed in IT. I run Vista Ultimate on a Dell laptop, and I have been unable to edit or remove any of the multiple user accounts I no longer need. I will also mention that the laptop has 2 drives, C...

I just installed Windows7 Professional with 2 standard users. I wanted to restrict access to one user's documents from the other. I was successful in doing that but then later I deleted both users and user files. Now I can't access the restricted root directory even as Administrator. If I take...

Hello, I have created a useraccount via CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2 in windows 7 called SharedAccess, this will be for anyone attempting to login to my machine to try and view files etc etc. I have given it a standard User Account, however i want to remove the user from the login screen so i don't...

Hi, I want to give another user (bkupuser1) the SeSecurityPrivilege like Administrator has. First I added the user in the Backup Operators group, using lusrmgr.msc program. However when I started a CMD prompt as the user and did: whoami /all I could see the privilege was not granted...