My wife tried to change the Username on the computer i put together for her. The only problem is that she changed the name somehow but it didn't change it in the OS. That is, when i go in through another user account it says the ORIGINAL name under users, NOT the name she made. Now the PROBLEM is that when the OS boots up it has her NEW name (that somehow didn't take), written in for the Admin...

I am unable to logon to my administration account at the welcome screen and when trying to switch between accounts on Vista. I receive the message "unable to load user profile". Any help please?

I am setting up a new workstation (Vista business) for my front desk girls. I loaded (as Administrator) the program for my credit card machine. If I log in as me (Administrator) the icon is there & the program runs fine. When I log in as either standard user I can't see the icon nor is it listed in programs. How do get these users to see the program? Thanks in advance, I'm not too...

I have a new Vista PC which came with a trial version of Office 2007. I installed Office 2003 but didn't uninstall the 2007. I only used the 2003 version and everything worked fine until the 2007 started opening for no apparent reason. Since the trial was up anyway, I uninstalled it from the Control Panel. Now when I open a Word, Excel, or Powerpoint document from a folder, I get the...

The subject says it all I guess. Is there a way to disable the user account picture from the Start menu?

I bought my son a laptop for a gift and he has it password protected back up on a disk that can not be found and the password can not be remembered. Does anyone know how to fix this problem. Thank you!!!!!!!!

my laptop with wndows vista says i need admin permission to download activex controller and adobe iam the admin..i so need some advice my children can not download any games or even play them on the net...please please tell me what to do i will be the best mum in the world if it can be fixed..thanks.bx

Hello, I would like to change the order of the user icons at the welcome screen. Is there only the way using different names to bring them in the order I need? --

hello, please can some one help me with my microsoft office product key, i bought a laptop a few weeks ago, and it is asking me for a product key, i located the product key on the underneath of my laptop, yet when i type it in it does not recognise it, i have repeted the process several times and am now in desperate need of help. charlotte

Any new news on the Admin Pak for 2003 on Vista?

Greetings, Does anyone know a workaround for the following catch 22: * From a Standard User Account under Vista, a user runs a setup program to install an application. * The setup program requires Administrator Privileges in order to run and displays the admin password dialog. The admin types in the password and the setup program proceeds with installation.

I have Vista Home Premium. I have drive z: mapped to drive c: on another computer in my network. I use wireless and it takes a minute for my wireless to come up, and by then Windows has already said that it cannot connect to the mapped drive. When I manually connect through My Computer i have to enter a password to let me have access the docs and settings folder. I went to User Accounts ...

i use vista home premium GR, i always update my pc, i have the nod32 always updated and when the computer starts i have to press CTRL+ALT+DELETE, in order to put the password and log in to windows, but i have the user account control deactivated. is there any way for someone to find my password, and if this is possible how can i prevent it?

I have Windows Vista Ultimate. Every time I turn on my computer, a little pop up window tells me to set a password for Parental Controls. HOWEVER, I do not need Parental Controls - I am the only user of the computer and I have not activated the Guest Account or created any other user account. How can I stop this annoying pop up window from popping up EVERY time I turn on my computer?...

Hello & thank you for your time. I have a home network with one desktop with XP Pro, and two Vista Home laptops. I can see every computer on the network, and I can log into vista laptops, but when I try to log in into XPdesktop from Vista laptops, it tells me that my user name or password are incorrect. I can log from XPdesktop to my laptops, but the laptops can't log into my XPdesktop On...

Hello, I have a task that runs an executable every 15 minutes. It is set to run regardless of if i am logged in or not. It asks for credentials and seems to be fine. I run the task to check it and it completes. Now the problem. It will run ok for a few hours both when I am logged in and when I am not. However, after a few hours (anywhere from 2-15 hours) it seems to begin complaining about...

After getting Windows Vista and successfully validating my OEM bought Vista Home Premium, I added a second hard-drive and replaced a faulty motherboard. Now it has apparently reseted the validation, it tells me not only that I need to active Windows (again) but the key that I have is 'already in use' (by me, obviously, but i dont understand?) I called the Windows toll-free phone activation,...

I have an application I am trying to run and every time I want to use it I have to use the run as administrator option when you want to run it even on user accounts which are supposedly set as administrators. I have been lead to believe that once you select the option it will always work but this is not the case. I am not sure if this may be because of using a desktop shortcut or what? If...

I had a new roomate move in and wea trying to get him wireless access but th password the router saved wasnt working... then i erased my saved one!! Now i have no wireless because it says my network security password is incorrect! how do i reset this password??? please help

i have a laptop,when i buyed it i got the windows vista home premium allready instaled and the vista cd olso,after some time because of some problems i had to reinstal it and work cuple of months and now it`s asking me for a new product key...i typed the key wich i have from a original cd and its not working...and my widows remain blocked