Background info: Laptop running Vista Home Premium, pre-installed with no backup disc. One account, had admin privileges but UAC is still on. Here's the problem I have run into, and hopefully you all may be able to help me. I accidentally set my \Users\ permissions to deny all access to my C drive, or at least that's what I think has happened. I have been searching for a possible work...

Been searching for this unsuccessfully. We are merging (2) domains, and within this process of moving our domain into the other we are trying to figure out how to change the "Documents" path via GPO. In the past 6 months we've migrated about 20 users to Vista. We've found that the Documents folder is a bit picky in that when we redirect it... have the target folder named Documents... or Vista...

I am trying to make changes to parental controls. I get an error message that reads: "Unable to make changes to parental controls settings. If this problem persists, contact your system administrator." I am an administrator on the computer. I have tried creating a new account and making changes there and that did not work.

Hi, I was noline with Symantec Tech Support and the agent made a change to my system without realizing it, and now I cannot login to my account. I get the above message. What does it mean and how can I get it resolved? I can log in as Admin, except that the system seems to be an order of magnitude slower compared to before this online session. I also tried to restore the system to several...

Hello, I'm new to this board and currently trying to look for a solution to my problem Hope experts/anyone can shed me some light. - My computer has multiple partitions - C: contains VISTA 32bit - D: contains XP (on another HDD) - E F G are just documents and files - Under VISTA, there are user accounts for me and my roommate

i read this post http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords/browse_thread/thread/28de7309071a4a14/21c409ca13516339?lnk=st&q=vista+access+is+denied+at+logon&rnum=16&hl=en#21c409ca13516339 and that sounds like a great idea, but the problem I am having now is that I have a user that has a fully encrypted HDD (Guardian Edge Encryption Plus) so...

:( Oh I hope someone can help us. My question is in regards to a desktop purchased about six months ago through Dell and is running Windows Vista Home Premium. This is my mother's computer and she passed away unexpectedly last month. We had access to her computer after she passed, but not realizing that this would happen, during what must have been some automatic updates the computer restarted...

G'Day All, I will be installing Vista HP on a new PC next week. During installation, I will create the Administrator account as required (can't really do much else!). Next, I would like to redirect ALL user data folders/files (Documents, Pictures ....) to drive D:.

I have tried many times to access my account. I know my password because we just bought the computer a month ago and I use it all the time. It says... *User Profile Service Failed the Login* I have read the threads online regarding going into the user profile changing/deleting etc but that only seems to change when I am in safe mode. Once I switch back to the regular start up the new...

My Acer 4220 Vista Home Basic doesn't allow me to access my Administrator Account. It displays Logon service failed. Iam also getting a request to activate my windows product number. I've tried lots of times to remedy this but to no avail. It now tells me the version of windows I now have is counterfeit. What do I do now? Please help me.

I used vispa on the mom's computer. It deleted all users. :0 need help bring any back. Its loads to log in, but no users.I used vispa on the mom's computer. It deleted all users. :0 need help bring any back. Its loads to log in, but no users. thx -- sigmatron99

Hi, I created a few Partition on my Vista Home Premium system and inadvertently Partitioned an External Hard Drive and now have 18.06GB titled Healthy EISA Configuration. My question is, how do I Merge / Combine this unwanted partition back with the 65.86BG External Drive? Thanks, Bob

I have vista home premium 64bit installed on my pc. The issue I am having is that i can not install anything from the non admin accounts i have set up? When i try i get message saying admin privileges needed or some thing like that. But I DO NOT get a prompt to enter a password. So I have to completely log out of the non admin account and log into the admin account. Is there a way i set up...

Hi I recently got Vista home premium. in the last 7 days my computer has automatically restarted no less than 754 times. whenever i start up windows explorer restarts a few times before "dumping" . the only way to start up is in safe mode. (it is a new laptop with vista installed.)

Hi, A few days ago, my Panda Antivirus had expired and thus exposed to viruse, adware, trojan etc etc...After i had removed it, my laptop goes haywire. Later i installed the Kaspersky internet security. After scanning and doing all neccessary things, i've tried to change my screen saver. However, a pop up window says 'Your System Administrator has disabled launching of the Display Settings...

how do I assign/allow an internet connection to a standard user account? -- labh534

When I try to log in with the Ethernet cable connected I receive an error message which reads; 'Your logon has been disabled. Please contact your system administrator.' But if I disconnect the cable it logs in just fine. I connect to the internet through a network. The only way to logon to the computer is to disconnect the network cable. I'm afraid to connect wirelessly because I don't want...

I'm intending to upgrade from XP Pro to Vista Ultimate, and want to establish how much more control the Administrator has. In XP Pro (with a little manipulation) it's possible to exclude administrators from Local Group Policy, but all other accounts (and the system) are still configured the same. I want group policy-level/type control over individual users, but so far I'm told this is only...

My Vista box shows a (at least to me) somewhat irritating behavior: When I open Control Panel = Windows Update the dialog appearing at the top always greets me with "Your Windows is up to date". It does so, without even checking for new updates. Only if I manually trigger "Check for updates" it goes off and actually searches the server for new updates (and e.g. this morning it brought up 10...

In Vista Ultimate I deleted a user account and saved the files. Now my email files are gone and they are not in the folder that was saved to the desktop. What happened?