Hi How to extend the activation period on vista (ultimate)? Thanks! Hemanth

new laptop, home basic, 1 admin, 1 limited acct, admin lost password, what are my options? safe mode administrator, reset disk? TY

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There are three accounts on opening Vista . One is guest , one adminstrator and one other. I have forgotten the password to the other one. Is there any way to delete this account and start anew?

I'v downloaded a trail version of Mudbox3D (https://mudbox3d.com/index.html) and its purchasing it. However just discovered that in the activation page it doesn't provide my request ID, it says request ID cannot be found. I've ask mudbox personelle but they dont' seem knowing how to solve it. Its like vista is blocking my MAC address so the program cannot get a request ID out for me to...

There is a user on my computer called Administrator. It is in the administrator group, but not the users group. It is disabled. After a restart, and only after a restart, I get a message saying something like "password is incorrect" prior to the log on screen. At the log on screen, there are two icons for a user called Administrator in addition to all the users I am used to dealing with....

I was setting up my new laptop last night and was trying to transfer my iTunes from my old computer to my new one. At one point, per the directions, I had to move the iTunes folder to the desktop. When I tried doing this, I kept getting an error message that said that I couldn't do it because I needed administrator permission to do so, even though I was already logged in as the...

I have multiple users setup. Everytime I try and log off and then log on with another user it hangs. I have to restart just to log on with another user. Odd if you ask me. Does anyone have a fix?

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whenever i do something that needs admin privaleges i get the user user account control box (this is normal) but for some strange reason it always asks for a password for my user account even though im the only user account with admin privelages.] there is another post on here about the same problem in vista buissness but tried running gpedit.msc and the file doesnt exist in system32. please...

Installshield gives message 1607 "unable to install Installshield scripting runtime" . I tried some of the fixes at http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q108340, but the problem continues.. The instructions there are oriented to Windows XP, so I could not do fix 1. I did do fixes 2 and 3. Other install files work on this computer and the install program also works properly on an XP...

Hello, On my WinVista laptop, for some reason, my user account on the logon screen shows up twice? I don't understand, I don't have 2 accounts. I thought I might have screwed something up, so I restored the laptop. and my account still shows up twice? Thanks in advance!! Sonic 1992

I am trying to login to my profile on Windows Vista Home Premium Ed. and it gives me the prompt of "User profile service error" which pretty much means that it cant load my profile. I am the only one that uses my computer but I have it set up with a password to ward off my roommates from using it. Very frustrating because I cant logon to my own computer. Please help.

I just bought a laptop with windows vista for my daughter. She needs to print off a document she did in microsoft office. She transferred it to our home computer, windows xp, and it shows up as a bunch of squares. Help! As you can probably tell I don't know much about computers and she needs this for school tomorrow. -- watsup

I am able to receive mail but I'm not able to send, can someone HELP me???

Task Manager changed and I no longer have access. followed Windows help: Click to open Registry Editor.* If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation. Navigate to the following location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies Double-click System, double-click DisableTaskMgr, change Value data...

My user acount appears twice, same name, on the log in page. Vista says the password is wrong. In the user acount manage, it only appears once. Where can I delete this "phatom account" in the registry?

Can anyone help resolve this? I'm running Vista Ultimate on a 73GB SCSI HardDrive w/ 50 GB still free. I downloaded MSFT's SteadyState 2.5 beta and two other utilities. All three use Windows Installer. None offer the option of installing as "Administrator". When I right click to "Install", I get the message: "The Temp Folder is on a drive that is full or is inaccesible. Free up space on...

I tried to download software in an administrator account and it started downloading for a little bit but then said "you do not have sufficient rights please sign into an administrator account". I tried downloading different software to make sure it wasn't the software and It said the same thing as I stated before. I tried restarting my computer a few times and the problem stayed persistant....

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