Hi Can any1 let me know how do i change my desktop background, whenever i change it after restarting my laptop, it comes bak to my Office's background. Guess need to change some policy. Got Vista Enterprise 32bit OS. Can any1 help me plss. Thanks --

when i try to save a document from word or excel. it won't let me save it in my documents say that i need administrator right. I am the administrator. How do I fix this? -- pez

Many of my user files on on a partition other than my boot partition. IIRC, if I do a clean install these files will no longer be owned by any user account, even if I create an account with the same name. So, my question is, how much trouble is it to change the ownership of all of these files (thousands) to an account under Vista? Can any administrator account do it, or only *the*...

I have a machine Vista Home Premimun in a workgroup - an independant machine attached to no network. When this machine was configured the main user wasn't give administrator permissions to him machine. He's a standard user. Is there a way to change his account to an administrator???

Folks, Last weekend I was setting up our new computer (Intel E8600, Asus P5k, 4GB RAM etc) with Vista Home Premium (64-bit) SP1. I set up user accounts for the family, installed a few programmes & updates, transferred some files etc etc. I had some difficulty networking with my Windows XP computer which got me exploring the new Vista set-up. What I appear to have done is, instead of setting up...

i have looked t the threads started by the admin but still no joy, for some reason i needed to be logged in as ADMIN to update the BIOS, so i ran the CMD *net user administrator /active:yes* now i have done what i wanted i now want to disable the ADMIN account but running the CMD above but changing yes to *no* does not work i get an error 5 message, please can someone help me on this as i did...

Hello, Acquired a computer with 3 user accounts, Administrator, Guest, and X. Administrator and Guest have no log in password but X does. Upon start-up it automatically goes to X account which I dont know the password. Is ther a way to view all accounts upon start-up? Troubled, Peaches

New computer Installed vista ultimate 64 bit enabled guest account with a password when guest logs in he's unable to switch a language. I've discovered that the language hot key is set to none and can't be assigned. I'm talking about control panel - 'clock, language and region' - 'change keyboards or other input methods' - 'change keyboards' under the 'keyboards

hello everyone- So I am taking a class on vista as part of my major requirements (im a network admin major). As such, I have been doing a LOT of tinkering and messing around with Vista, looking at things and playing with different settings. Anyways, to make a complicated story short, I need to re-create the admin, default and so on profiles as I somehow deleted the default profile and had to...

pgribble wrote: I have finally found a combnation of Internet Options/Security settings that works for our office enviroment (Vista Business SP1, IE7). How do I go about copying all of these settings (Tools- Internet Options - General, Security, Privacy, Content, Connections, Programs, Advanced) to other PCs? (There is not practical way to even print out these settings.)

I need to make a Vista computer FDCC (NIST) compliant, I will not be able to use AD to apply the recommended settings, I'll be using a workgroup setup to test multiple configurations for App Compat. I'll be creating a ton of settings using the Local GPO (MLGPO), but having problems finding a method that will permit me to backup and restore or Import/Export any of the Local Group Policies. I...

user profile-service werkt niet meer ik krijg deze melding regelmatig, wie kan me daarin helpen wat kan er aan verholpen worden vriendelijke groeten Ronny

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I have been reading posts here for months and have noticed an increasing number of Vista users that are having problems with .png files and Windows Media Player. This is a suggestion to Microsoft to review the UAC for some issues it has been causing. A few months ago, my New HP/Compaq with Vista Home Premium lost it's ability to view .png files in IE. Running IE as Admin or turning off UAC...

Vista biggest piece of crap since bear did you know what in the woods. -- pez

Hi, I'm running Vista Home Premium on on Toshiba Satelie U300-13V. Network Diagnostics was working fine until recently, but now when I try and run it I get the "Network Diagnostics cannot run because the Diagnostics Policy Service is not running." When I open Service Control Manager and try to start the service manually, I get the message "Windows could not start the Diagnostic Policy...

I can't seem to save files anywhere. Vista says need administrator rights. I am the administrator. There is also an account listed as AsP.net Machine account. Is this normal? What can I do to solve this problem? -- pez

I notice that when I try and change an icon to something better than just the Windows version of what it thinks an icon should have for a picture, that I can't make the change. I click on a new picture and save it, and no sir.... that windows picture remains. Whats there fix for this, if there is one...?? --- Ted Gervais

A cousin passed away in July. I have inherited her Acer laptop. My problem is that it is password-protected upon sign in. I've seen people talking about signing in as an admin and the like, but I can't get past the opening password screen. Is there anything I can do to access this computer? Thanks if you can help.

My son works with a pc with a limited account, because with the parental control I switch on the time limit so he can not use his PC at night. But I want to allow him to install or uninstall programs which is not allowed with a limited user account. How can I change this?