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All right, I just spent the last hour and a half working on this, so hopefully things work out as well for you guys as they did for me. Earlier tonight I booted up my computer (I'm actually on an Apple iMac, dual booting OS X and Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit) and started up using the Windows 7...

Hi, We've recently deployed Windows 7 64 bits in our school labs using MDT and on our image we've defined stuff in our "Default user" profile to those things are imported to any new accounts that logs on the computers. We're also using DeepFreeze to ensure that computers will be stable...

I was unable to see folder 'AppData' in C:\users\steven with explorer (W7). I tried unselecting 'read only', this didn't help. I then checked 'hidden'. I also applied these actions to c:\users (Stupid I know). Now I can't see c:\users and my favorites have disappeared in IE.

How do you use Windows 7 in a corporate world with a default profile that has all our apps loaded? XP did not have this problem and was very user friendly on a domain. W7 is not. Average users logging into this All-In-One we purchased cannot create their own profile and hit the domain.

My son was using his laptop this afternoon and his password will no longer allow him access. We type his password in and get the message: The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile can not be loaded. What can I enter into the password field that will allow me access to change...

Hola, first post on here so if I havent followed a particular rule before posting I apologise. I've had this laptop for 4/5 months or so and its my first W7 platform. Occasionally I got a few error messages when I was logging in, saying that cannot load profile and sometimes it wouldn't...

Hi When my wife logs into her Comcast home page the local news and weather are set to Philadelphia Pen, unfortunately we live in Ada Michigan. No matter how often we change it to the local zip it always changes back when Chrome is restarted. It doesn't do this on my computer in Chrome...

Hey folks, we deployed an update to Channel 9 today, bringing us two major changes: First, we have moved to Link Removed, which has enabled us to start publishing our content using Link Removed. You’ll see more and more video encoded using this format as new content is run through the site...

When I tuned on my band new computer for the first time I created one user account for both myself and my wife. We then decided to create separate accounts for each of us. Creating my wife's separate account was easy. After she logged on for the first time a new home folder (under the User...

hi, i wish to redirect my shell folders, i.e., my documents, music, etc. i know i might use the 'include folder' option, but it does not redirect the default location, it includes a reference to the included folder. i tried the change keys in the regedit, but somehow, nothing had changed. the...

I am the sole user of a netbook and have no password to access my windows account (never used a computer with multiple accounts) The Windows user screen pops up about every 10 minutes and I have to click on my profile pic in order to return to the screen I was viewing. I have no screen...

Can anyone help here. I'm new to windows 7 and recently my laptop, Toshiba, has started playing up. Once switched on it ask for password as usual, then we get an error saying 'profile user lockout. The only way I have been able to get over this is to start in safe mode and do a system restore...

Greg Shultz shows you how to take advantage of Robocopy's multi-threaded copy feature to create an exact mirrored duplicate of your user profile folder. More...

Hi everyone.. I'm fairly technical and was a network and tech Director for a few years so have some familiarity with prior Windows versions but Win 7 is a bit new to me. I went to login today, and my login picture had been changed. Looking in Windows Event Viewer under Security, I can see it...

There are many posts on the Internet about Start Menu Programs disappearing. However, none of those cases seemed to be exactly like what I'm experiencing. This has happened to me many times. I'm not sure what I did: the problem might've occured just after uninstalling some small video...

So I turn off my computer last night with nothing out of the ordinary going on. I start up my computer this morning, and it says something like "Setting Up Desktop" for about 5 minutes after I type in my password to log on to my computer. I finally log on, and all my custom desktop things are...

Ok, about two weeks ago I seemed to have gotten a virus that we believed to have been some how related to the google toolbar. We could not open the anti-virus, or do to much from my user account, but everything works fine on my moms user account, so she ran the anti-virus and what not. With no...

The following are Environment Variables in Windows 7 which can allow you to get to system locations more efficiently. What are Environment Variables in Windows? Well, if we understand that "variables" are things that can be changed, and if we also understand that the environment that variables...

Windows Files: Search, Indexing and Online Backup Windows Libraries and the Windows Search Index In this video, I will discuss with you: The power of the Library feature in Windows 7. The configuration of Indexing Options. And the ability to backup your files at any time, on the the Amazon...

Hello, I have a problem with my windows 7 Installation. Every time I boot to windows it hangs and says "Preparing your windows" and after that I get a blank screen. This happened after I removed the Windows XP I had on the same HHD, and extended the Windows 7 partition. I can not enter...