Hello, I need to install a program, but an error appears saying I need to login to the local machine to do it. I'm an administratror and only user of the laptop. What should I do? Thanks a lot for your help.

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...

I've successfully installed a typing tutor program on my Dell Inspiron 1720 running Vista Home Premium. I have no problem using it, but I really installed it for my mother-in-law to use. She does NOT have an admin account. If she tries to run it, it asks her for the admin password. I don't want her to have the admin password, BUT I DO want her to be able to use this program. Surely, it...

hey i need help! i have activited the protection of minors, and now i have forgot the password :( what can i do? do I need to reinstall vista? please help here a a pic of the symbol i mean

Hi all, I have had vista ultimate installed since it was released. I also have a pc running MCE2005. For the past 3 days I can not connect to the MCE machine at all. I will try and list out as much as I can remember. This has worked for MONTHS!! It prompts for username and password (even though they match on both machines). 1.No firewalls enabled on either machine. 2.Matching accounts on...

Ok so here is deal , like i cant download or install anything. my friend made and accoutn on his computer and now its randomly password protected. dont knwo the password and its on an admin account u cant do anything to change it cant install any programs to change it. is he screwed does he ahve to reformat. cause the profile hes on doesnt allow him to do anything. help please. -- pavo21

Received my computer back yesterday from HP with reinstalled clean version of Vista Home Premium. It came back with a user name of 'test'. I attempted to change the name to my name "Bob Lafayette" and the user name in task manager under user shows up as "BOBLAFAYETTE\test". In System Information the user name shows as BOBLAFAYETTE\test

Hello restart Vista Ultimate 64 opens my user . log in OK than it says it creates a temporary USERPROFILE becaus eit can not load mine ALL I mean All settings are gone incl. Outlook, files .. Systemrestore seems to have 5 restore points this faield also Frozen at this process. Restart ... no more restorepoints those all gone too.

i 'm not sure if this is even important, but here goes anyway, i am using dsl to accesss internet, it's wireless, i don't want anyone accessing my network, i for some reason started looking into this and noticed that in my "network and sharing center" under "sharing and discovery" "file sharing" and password protected sharing" are both turned on and when i tell it to turn off, because i don't...

Can somebody tell me how 2 do it?My Vista Home Basic has developed a new prob : when i turned on my laptop, it suddenly said "we have to open a temporary admin user account rite now cuz we can't load ur admin user account".So,da only choice i have rite now is 2 create a new admin user account n copy all da files n folders 2 da new account.So how i wanna copy them?:cry: -- Farhana

Our network has an Account lockout policy of 6 incorrect tries before the account is locked out. I have two machines I use on the network. One a box that I dual boot between XP (Primary) and vista ultimate(- I'm evaluating), the second an XP SP2 box that I use to connect to remote database via Remote Desktop. In addition to the account lockout policy, all of our machines will automatically lock...

Just got a new laptop its got the fingerprint reader, which is awsome, but for some reason it shows up like a user account on the welcome page. Its not a guest account and when I went to the control panel, user accounts, it doesnt show up there. I want it to not show up at start up just wondering if anyone knows how to take it off, i went through a bunch of stuff but i still cant figure it out :p...

when I log on with the correct password, a window pops up saying: code: 0xc004E002 Description: The Software Licensing Service reported that the licensing Store contains inconsistent data. at the bottom right of this black screen it says:

Jimmy - I think this will help my problems with my Linksys NAS as well. However, after clicking on Admin Tools I don't see a "Local Security Policy" shortcut to double-click on. Is there something I am missing? -- Brian Dewhirst "Jimmy Brush" wrote: Hello,

Is there a password and username retrieving software that remembers a password and username once someone types it in to that computer? If so, does it work for other software programs,(to retrieve passwords from that software) and are there any that are free? a name of the program would be nice. thanks. -- ewastudent "superchris"

What do I need to do to have my saved passwords entered in my websites automatically -- Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

I am trying to make sense of the activity reports from Parental Controls but each website that my kids go to seems to generate dozens of URL hits in the log, some of which seem to have no relation to the site being viewed. How can I tell if they actually viewed a website? -- Big Brother Dad

My PC with Windows XP crashed and died and the encrypted files on the removable media can't be accessed now. Does anyone know if there is any way to get these files decrypted on my new PC running Vista? I don't have any keys from the old machine, (didn't know I needed anything when I encrypted them using XP).

This is just a Linux fan posting the solution for an 'old thread of this forum' (http://www.vistax64.com/vista-account-administration/7649-setting-environment-variables.html). Accept my apologies if it has been already answered in another thread. Google still links there, and no answer can be posted as it is too old. :( The how-to can be found 'here' (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931715),...

Hello! I'm currently running Windows Vista Ultimate x64 i have tried launching remote desktop connection but it doesn't open... anyone know what the problem might? any help would be greatly appreciated. thank you in advance -P