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"Sam" as a username
I have a friend for whom I put together a computer with Vista Home Basic on
it. She is not very computer savvy, and relies on me for support. She "suddenly" began having all sorts of problems that I couldn't explain. (The one that made her call me was that the computer was asking if she wanted to format her DVD... even the Vista installation DVD.) I thought it was a communications problem between her and myself, so I had her bring her computer to me so I could look at it. Sure enough, it was doing what she said. I saw that she had the Google toolbar installed, and after I was sure she didn't use it I tried uninstalling it. It didn't work. After further investigation, I determined that she couldn't delete files, either. Nor could she run anything that had the User Account Control on it. I double-checked, and she IS the only administrator account. After lots of dead-ends and talking to her, I found out that her son had changed the name on his account to "SAM" about the same time she started having problems. I didn't think much about this, but as I was going over this in my head, I had a flash.... SAM ... Security Accounts Manager Service. Just wondering.... Could this be the source of my friends problem? Or should I look elsewhere? |
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"Sam" as a username
like mike just said, computer names are symply names and nothing else just to identify your machine -- biddy79uk *OS * vista home premium x86 *CPU * E6750 Core 2 Duo *Motherboard * N/A *Memory * 3GB @ 667 *Graphics Card* 256MB Nvidea GeForce 8600GT *Hard Drives* 2 x 500GB Seagate Baracuda 16MB Cache Galaxy 3D @ 7200RPM |
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"Sam" as a username
they can hurt your computer if you program it correctly. This may be the
problem I say that you should investigate. David Herrera "biddy79uk" wrote in message ... like mike just said, computer names are symply names and nothing else just to identify your machine -- biddy79uk *OS * vista home premium x86 *CPU * E6750 Core 2 Duo *Motherboard * N/A *Memory * 3GB @ 667 *Graphics Card* 256MB Nvidea GeForce 8600GT *Hard Drives* 2 x 500GB Seagate Baracuda 16MB Cache Galaxy 3D @ 7200RPM |
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"Sam" as a username
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:58:21 -0700, "David Herrera"
wrote: they can hurt your computer if you program it correctly. This may be the problem I say that you should investigate. David Herrera You're a moron. "biddy79uk" wrote in message ... like mike just said, computer names are symply names and nothing else just to identify your machine -- biddy79uk *OS * vista home premium x86 *CPU * E6750 Core 2 Duo *Motherboard * N/A *Memory * 3GB @ 667 *Graphics Card* 256MB Nvidea GeForce 8600GT *Hard Drives* 2 x 500GB Seagate Baracuda 16MB Cache Galaxy 3D @ 7200RPM |