I'm quite savy at computers but this is tricky. My mom has me set on parental controls for Windows Vista. She gave me her password and I turned them out, logged off and then logged back on to my account. Then, when I turned off the computer and she turned it back on the next day, her password didn't work. She's called people and apparently, I changed the password without knowing I did. Here's...

I booted up my Vista Ultimate this AM to a "Your password has expired and must be changed message." It offers me 3 fields, 1st one is filled in (my old pw presumably), 2nd says "new pw", 3rd says "confirm pw". I fill in 2, and 3, and click - which results in a brief flash of "Changing password..." then "Access is denied." I've tried clearing 1 and putting in my pw instead of...

Problem: When attempting to access several admin tasks via the MMC console, the above error occurs. The snap-ins (non-third party, standard come-with-vista, not part of the 2003 admin pack) a Event Viewer Task Manager MMC snap-ins that do work: Computer management

How come the only way to do a recovery from a Complete PC Backup in Vista Ultinate requires bootup from the orginal Vista DVD? Ive payed hard cash for the original. Id like to know its good and safe, but when I have to use it everytime i need a Recovery! I acctually have to bring the original disc with me on my weekly travels. Cant I get a Vista boot disc or such, that has Complete PC Backup...

I set up a set up a new administrator account and new a standard user account. For some reason...don't ask me why, just plan stupid, I set my new standard account as the adminstrator and the old adminstrator account to a standard user. Now when I log on it does not give me the option to log into the admin account so that I can change things back. I have done some research online and am not...

Running Vista Business w SP1 Have a simple setup, with one user - an User Account Control is turned OFF. Since I use a Hard Drive Password, I prefer not to use a Windows login password. During normal bootup, my User login occurs automatically, as desired. However, if Vista goes into Sleep mode, when I activate it there is no automatic login. It shows the screen with my User Name and below...

Hello, on my PC I would like to have both Windows XP and Windows 7 installed. Is there any possibility to share the accounts between these systems, such that user A on XP is also recognized as the same user on Win7? EasyTransfer transferred the settings of these users, but assigned different user IDs, so that files and directories owned by user A on WinXP belong to an numeric account on...

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I script a small 2D online game created with Visual Basic 6.0 and my friend is having trouble logging in. We thought we fixed her error but she recieved the error 0x80020009 when she tried to register dx7vb.dll. The problem is she has played the game before without error and the last time I updated she cannot connect without getting that error, as well as she is the only user on her...

Please please can someone help me with this?? The problem started when I decided to do a reboot after installing some programs. Since then whenever I log on it takes ages displaying the "welcome" message, then comes up with the dreaded "preparing your desktop" message. It then loads a "temporary user profile" and says that any changes made while logged on to this profile will be lost...

Keeping it simple. I gave my old XP computer to a friend. He set up a Yahoo e-mail Live Messenger account on it. It works fine on his end. But when I log on to my Live Messenger account on my new Vista computer, I log onto his yahoo account instead of my hotmail account. He went to stored user names and passwords on his and tried to delete all acounts on his end, but I'm still logging on to...

Well trying to secure some files on a 2nd drive (D drive). I had set it up to block access to everyone but me (the administrator). Now even while logged on as the administrator I can't access the files on the drive. I get a message " D:\ is not accessible", "Access is denied"?????? What is up with that? So I tried to do a system restore but without getting into pointless details on that, it...

Sage appears to have lost my password! Logon name ok, password rejected with message "you have entered an invalid password". It worked ok yesterday! Can I reset the password somehow or what can I do? it is installed in pc, which has windows vista installed. could anybody help please.

Hey, I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 and it recently crashed and when i restart it, it enters the Windows Error Recovery screen and when i select either the startup repair option or start windows normally option after a few seconds it takes me to the login screen where it only gives me the option to select Other User and not my own User Profile. Any help you can give me with this problem would be...

I have a Vista Home premium laptop I use occasionally. I used it a couple of weeks ago and ISTR it did some updates when I logged out. I turned it on yesterday and it will no longer accept my account password. In fact it only shows bullets for the first five of the password which is seven long. The password prompt appears so I am sure I am entering the right password. I do not have caps lock...

Hello all Recently I've got a laptop wich came with WIndos Vista HOme Premium installed. I decided to put a Password in my administrator account, but I've forgotten it...And there is no other open account, just the administrator one of wich I've lost the password - I didn't create a pssword reset disk. Is there anything I can do? Can You please Help me? -- Thank You for the attention

I have set up a second administrator account and given it a password. I also set up a "reset password disk" in a cruzer flash drive. The password reset has a .psw extension and I can't figure out how to open it up to make sure it is usable. I have Open Office installed. When I try to open the .psw file with it however, it shows what I call "computer language" (unreadable) and not document...

Hello. If we rename a user account in Vista, does all user data etc stay as it was all that actually happens is the login name is changed and nothing else ? Thanks

Some time ago I opened a Guest account. As an Administrator I wanted to test this account now, howeve I am not able to access it: After clicking the Guest button Vista takes its time and after about a minute I received the error message: "Windows could not connect to the sens service. Consult the Administrator." I have no idea what the sens service is. Thank you for your help. -- McAlex

Some time ago I opened a Guest account. As an Administrator I wanted to test this account now, howeve I am not able to access it: After clicking the Guest button Vista takes its time and after about a minute I received the error message: "Windows could not connect to the sens service. Consult the Administrator." I have no idea what the sens service is. Thank you for your help. -- McAlex