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• all my desktop icons were gone I have not all documents, photos etc frpm a user account

  Original title:

  User accounts

  I have 3 user accounts on my welcome screen which is admin. normally, I click on my own account. When I made the other day all my desktop icons went I have all the documents, pictures, etc. I though I had lost them up to what I went to c/users/selected my user account and everything is there. I seems the account that I click the home screen is not a link to my account?

  Please can someone help?

  I tried to restore to an earlier date that did not work.

  When you create a new user, the directory will not present until you connect for the first time this new user.  The fast way so disconnect and connect under the newly created user.  After that, the folder would be present.

  The way alternative copy of the files on an external drive and copy then back also works, but there are also that you connect as long as this new user to do this.

  The top of the default user folder account Security page is [heart] to this user and administrators only (that's why the lock symbol).  You should be able to bypass this security, if you are signed in with an account that has administrator privileges.  Otherwise, you will need to log on as the owner of this folder, right-click on the folder-> Security (tab) and change the security to allow access by other users.

  HTH,

  JW

• How to access the administrator account disabled on standard user account?

  I recently disbaled my account admin by this step

  Control Panel > administrative tools > computer management > local users and groups > users > admin account > properties > check an account is disabled

  Now, I want access to my admin account

  I tried to access it from the login screen by clicking CTRL + ALT + DELETE but his does not work and also tried to start a cmd as administrator of the standard user account, but his is not accessible. Now I can able to access standard user only, now please tell me how to access my admin account to standard user account that I created.

  What you were doing was equivalent to throw out your safe master key. Not a good idea. Here's how you can recover from this error:

  1. Set your BIOS so that it uses the DVD drive as its primary boot device.
  2. Start the computer with your Windows 7 repair CD.
  3. Press a key when prompted to boot from the DVD.
  4. Select 'PC Repair' in the menu.
  5. Select 'Repair' when prompted.
  6. When you are prompted, select System Restore.
  7. Configure Windows to a point before you disabled the admin account.
  8. Instead of disable your own and only the account admin, you now need to create, test, and document an alternative admin account, same as you have a spare emergency House key. This will save you a lot of trouble.

• (Word2007 and Acrobat Reader 9.3) software applications do not respond (show the codes of errors/etc) ONE of my user accounts (running Vista Home Premium 64); will work perfectly on all the other (total of 3) user accounts.

  8.3 and word2007 Acrobat (version family and student) does not not in one of my user accounts - no problem in others; downloaded Acrobat 9.3; problem persists in Acrobat; Failed to get support for Word as they know is no longer my (expired) product key. Any method to repair/restore/reinstall to only the affected user account.

  Hi Chuck41,

  Since both applications work correctly on some other user accounts except the account of a user that can occur if this user account is damaged.
  You will need to create a new user account and then transfer the file and the settings of the user account damaged to the new user account.

  For more information please visit the link below.
  Difficulty of a corrupted user profile
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/fix-a-corrupted-user-profile

  I hope this helps!

  Halima S - Microsoft technical support.
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• 'File name' is locked for editing by 'Client', why not show the correct user account

  A .xls file created by MS Excel 2003 and saved on the server files (Windows Server 2008 R2 without Service Pack).

  We have two users: A and c. accounts of A and C join same above file server's domain. A approval of the admin on the server, C is a common user. The version of MS Excel on the pc is 2010, although it is 2003 for C.

  C tries to open a file on the server and it has the change permission on the file and the file, however, the file is locked for editing by 'administrator '. For the moment, no one opens this file, so which is 'Administrator'?

  More tests:

  (1) once A open file C is reached, there is message: file is locked for editing by 'Client', so why shows 'Client' instead of a correct domain account?

  (2) after C opens the file and then A is reached, there is message: file is locked for a domain C user account. So it seems OK.

  Post in the Windows Server Forums:
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/category/WindowsServer/

• I locked myself in one of my user accounts - I have reset the password and can not remember what it is

  URGENT! -I'm locked in one of my user accounts - the system won't let me not reset the password

  You said that you had to reset the password, but forget what it is.
  Do you then remember the previous password?
  1. If you remember the previous password until you did reset.
  2. If you have the DVD drive or Vista repair.
  3. If there is a restore point which a logon succeeded.
  This works in cases where you changed your password to something new and then has forgotten or deleted a user account by accident. So that this works, there must be a restore point from the system during which logging has managed for the account of the problem. In addition, this isn't a problem if you are in a domain environment because the domain administrator can always reset your password.

  If you meet the above conditions, then use this tutorial:
  http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/Windows-Vista/how-to-regain-access-to-your-administrator-account-in-Windows-Vista-using-system-restore/

  Otherwise, we are not allowed to help users to bypass the password protection, regardless of what are "reasons".
  Here's the Microsoft Policy on this subject
  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_vista-security/keeping-passwords-secure-Microsoft-policy-on/3eba3150-8742-4264-be9f-0daaad2282cd

• Managers of user accounts problem

  I had a user account that has been password protected and I had to type the password every time at startup. If after reading a magazine I tweaked the registry and added that something called winlogon or something (I don't remember perfectly). Then I changed the existing pssword to a new. But now I have two different accounts with the same name. When the PC starts, I have to select one of them. For one I need to enter the password, but not for the other. can someone tell me how to disable this?

  Hi karim Shah,.

  (1) you are able to access all of your data and programs with user accounts?

  (2) don't you back up the registry before you edit?

  You can undo all the changes made by restoring the registry (if a backup of the registry was taken, before editing).

  Step 1: You can disable\remove the user account you want to remove from your computer. To do this, follow the steps mentioned in the link below

  Disable a user account

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/disable-a-user-account

  Delete a user account
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/delete-a-user-account

  Step 2: To identify the user account, you can rename the username you want to disable\remove. To do this, follow the steps below

  Rename a user account

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/rename-a-user-account

  Note: An account has been disabled can be enabled again later. Disable an account is different from the delete an account. If you delete an account, it cannot be restored. When a user account is deleted, you no longer have access. If you delete a user account that is working properly and be gone with a defective or damaged user account computer may not start. Ensure that you keep the user account that works correctly.

  Step 3: run the system restore - You can put the backup from one computer to an earlier point in time and check if it makes a difference.

  What is system restore?

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/what-is-system-restore

  For more information about managing user accounts, please see the link below

  Manage user accounts

  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc505882.aspx

  Thanks and greetings

  Ajay K

  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

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• Cannot create a new user account account & comments pasted as an administrator. How can I activate built-in Administrator?

  It's a long story, but it is a case of me not having only not the slightest idea of what I was doing and the things themselves are mean. I tried to access the built-in function

  Administrator on my laptop, so I could create a password for it and to transform my only other account user in a standard account. The only way I knew a bit about this world work (at the time) was going to safe mode (already did this on another laptop of mine and it worked,) but the built-in administrator is not. Unfortunately, when I do my first mistake a lot of errors, I decided that I could force the built-in Administrator"is displayed by the guest in an administrator account so I could turn off my main user account. I realized that I couldn't change guest in standard account so I turned it off as an administrator. When I'm home in safe mode I finally see the built-in administrator so I put my password for it, but I noticed the UAC did not have a password field to type and 'yes' is gray. Thinking that it was because I left the account called Administrator, until I turned it off I go to reactivate it if I could go back to the standard, but the guest account would not change back or extinguish again causing the built-in Administrator "to disappear from the safe mode and therefore, preventing me from the question of fixing.

  I've tried so far of troubleshooting:

  (Start, typed the CDM, run as administrator, typed user administrator / Active: Yes) Having failed, I got msg "System 5 error has occurred. Access denied. "

  (Start, typed the CDM, run as administrator, typed net users) see three accounts on my computer administrator, guest, and my main account.

  (Start, typed the CDM, run as administrator, typed 'Jack' xxyyzz net user / add) Having failed, I got msg "System 5 error has occurred. Access denied. "

  I tried to create a new account, but it still says "the specified account name is not valid, because account names cannot contain the following characters / \ []" :;|<>+=,? ". ' * ' , but I don't use any of these at all!

  Change the Standard user account to administrator did not

  I tried to disable the guest account, but that didn't work either

  If anyone has ideas or definitive answers to how to help me solve this problem would be very useful, thx!

  The guest on my computer account has administrative authority.

  If your guest account has administrator privileges (why?) then you can do this:

  1. Log in under the guest account.
  2. Click the start planet.
  3. Type cmd.exe in the search box.
  4. Press Ctrl + Shift + Enter
  5. Click on "Run as Administrator".
  6. Type the following commands and press ENTER after each:
     NET user administrator / Active: Yes
     NET user administrator 123456
     (to set the password to 123456)
  7. Log in as administrator.
  8. Plan ahead a little and create, test, and document an alternative admin account, even though you have a spare House key. This will save you a lot of trouble.
  9. Demote, then disable the guest account. There is a security risk.

• Which is better to have several user accounts from window for the same person, so having much Firefoxes or have much Firefoxes under a Windows account user?

  Right now I have about 6 window user accounts (just for me on a single computer) because I didn't know I could put more Firefox then one per account. I leave the tabs upward when I close Firefox, because if I just bookmarks I won't finish my work I was doing with these sites. Now that I know how to put multiple Firefoxes under a user account. That would make my computer fast or not, it matter if I put all my Firefoxes on a window user account or have 6 windows user accounts, each with their own Firefox?
  -Thank you

  It is more work to move to a different Windows account and then open another instance of Firefox with a different profile.
  If you only use other windows accounts for the use of Firefox like this and not for any other purpose, then there is nothing against the passage to a single Windows account to make it easier to manage such things as the backup of your personal data or copy data between the other profiles.

  So, it's up to you if you want to switch to a single Windows account.

  See also:

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Opening_a_new_instance_of_Firefox_with_another_profile
  • https://developer.Mozilla.org/Mozilla/Multiple_Firefox_Profiles

• Bought laptop computer using XP, how do I change the name of the user account of the former owner to mine?

  I recently bought a laptop from a colleague with win xp
  installed. I have mangaged to customize all the settings and
  change the user account of his name in the mine. However,.
  in the folder "Documents & Settings', the user of the account
  personal forlder remains in its name whereas it should
  automatically turned into me when I changed the
  account in my name. So that all my staff
  the parameters in the folder as "My fovorites" are those
  me, the name of the folder is always under his name.

  How can I change the name of the account for the personal folder
  his name in the mine? I tried right click and
  selecting rename, but a bax warning appears, and I'm not
  not know if this is the right way to do it. Thank you

  How can I change the name of the account for the personal folder
  his name in the mine?

  If you have the reinstallation CD, format and reinstall XP. It's really the way to go with a used machine.

• Restoring user accounts after reinstall

  Due to corrupt files, I had to reinstall Vista from CD, completed this finally, c/o all the upgrades, but lost previous user accounts, as well as all forms and all parameters. Is it possible to restore the former user connections, since files are in WINDOWSOLD, or what I have to do it again.

  You must configure the accounts.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/932912

  How to restore your personal files after you perform a custom Windows Vista or Windows 7 installation

  Read the info on the link above.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• Updated mapping of user names in C:\Users Control Panel user accounts.

  Hello
  Windows Vista Edition Home Premium SP2. I'm trying to match user accounts in Control Panel with those listed in C:\Users\(name-of-user).
  I need to do this on a new computer, so I can network with existing computers.
  On my 3 computers existing, somehow my user accounts in Control Panel do not match the underlying names in C:\Users but I all do not match the same way on all computers and am able to share with them. For example, I have a user account named "ComputerAdmin" in the control panel that is the username 'Gift' which can be found in the C:\Users.I to add this fourth computer and match all names in C:\Users then they are the same on all computers, and I want to match user accounts in Control Panel so that they are all the same on all computers , and finally, I want to synchronize the C:\Users to user accounts in Control Panel on this fourth computer so that it will be in the network.
  I did this once before with the help and it was not too difficult to do, I just forgot how I did it. What is the best way to accomplish this task? All computers are running Vista. TIA
  Don

  I don't think it's your problem. If you have a user account password 1234 on one computer Bob and Bob password 1234 on another computer, properly configured firewall and actions put in place properly, sharing will be flawless. I answered your question above several times and I'm afraid that I don't know how to make it more clear. I am sympathetic that you do not want to hear this, but implementation of sharing between computers if bit normally takes about 5-7 minutes. But without being able to see your network and computers, I can't be specific about what you're doing wrong.

  Here's my usual network troubleshooting information. If you still can't get it, you can have one tradesperson come on-site and to fix things for you. This is not a person of a type BigComputerStore/GeekSquad of the place. I'm sorry that I wasn't able to help you.

  Excellent, comprehensive, but easy to understand article on sharing files/printer under Vista. Contains information about sharing printers and files, and the folders:

  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727037.aspx

  For XP, start by running the Network Setup Wizard the on all machines (see warning in section A below).

  Problems sharing files between computers on a network are usually caused by 1) a misconfigured firewall or a firewall neglected (including a dynamic firewall in a virtual private network); or (2) inadvertently run two firewalls such as the firewall of Windows and a third-party firewall. and/or (3) do not have accounts to the same users and passwords on all computers in the workgroup. (4) tries to create actions where the operating system does not.

  A. configure the firewall on all machines to allow traffic to local area network (LAN) as being approved. With the Windows Firewall, it means which allows file sharing / print on the Exceptions tab normally run the XP Network Setup Wizard will take care of this for these machines. The only "witch hunt", it will turn on the XPSP2 Windows Firewall. If you are not running a third-party firewall or you have an antivirus/security with its own firewall component program, then you're fine.  With a third-party firewall, I usually set up the allocation of LAN with an IP address range. E.g. would be 192.168.1.0 - 192.168.1.254. Obviously you would substitute your correct subnet. Refer to the safety of any third party program or the user forums for how to correctly configure its firewall. Do not run more than one firewall. DON'T STOP FIREWALLS; CONFIGURE THEM CORRECTLY.

  (B) to facilitate the Organization, put all computers in the same workgroup. This is done from the System applet in Control Panel, the computer name tab.

  (C) in Vista, turn on password protected sharing. Create accounts of users and corresponding passwords on all machines. You do not need to be logged into the same account on all machines and assigned to each user account passwords can be different; accounts/passwords just need to exist and to match on all machines. DO NOT NEGLECT TO CREATE PASSWORDS, EVEN IF ONLY OF SIMPLE. If you want a machine to boot directly to the desktop (a particular user account) for convenience, you can do this:

  XP - set up Windows to automatically connect (MVP Ramesh) - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm

  Vista - Start ORB > Search > type: netplwiz [Enter]
  Click continue (or provide an administrator password) when you are prompted by UAC

  Uncheck "users must enter a user name and password to use this computer". Select a user account to connect automatically by clicking on the account you want to highlight and press OK. Enter the password for this user account (when it exists) when you are prompted. Leave blank if there is no password (null).

  D. Si one or more of the computers is XP Pro or Media Center, turn off Simple file sharing (Folder Options > view tab).

  E. create share as you wish. XP Home does not share the users directory or the Program Files, but you can share folders inside those directories. A better choice is to simply use the Shared Documents folder. See the first link above for more information on Vista sharing.

  F. you have the job of file sharing (and tested by exchanging a file between machines), if you want to share a printer connected locally to one of your computers, share of this machine. Then go to the printer mftr Web site. and download the latest drivers for the correct system. Install them on the target machines. The printer must be collected during the installation procedure. If this isn't the case, install the drivers and then use the Add Printer Wizard. In some cases, printers must be installed as local printers, but it is outside this response. MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

• my user account is 'administrator', but am still denied access to the file I want to access.

  I click on certain folders or files to access and a window pops up saying: "access denied."  Nevertheless, I have a user 'administrator' account, so why would I refused access?  I'm really tired of Windows 7, doing so and would like a replacement that will allow me access to WHAT I want - after all, it's MY computer, not Microsoft!

  Hello
  1. are you aware of any hardware or software changes, prior to the beginning of the question?
  2. is the computer connected to the domain?

  Method 1:

  You can also try to give permission to the files.
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/how-do-I-open-a-file-if-I-get-an-access-denied-message

  Method 2:
  If the problem persists, we create a new administrator user account and transfer all the data to the new user account. Link below will help you to create a new account and transfer all data and information
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/fix-a-corrupted-user-profile

  I hope this helps. Get back to us with results.

• By mistake I disabled all user accounts and cannot connect to my dell latitude d610 laptop computer. Tried going into the bios and turning off everything, what does not work!

  By mistake I disabled all my user accounts and cannot connect to my laptop, the Dell Latitude d610. I tried to restart in all modes as well as rotating directors passwords and disable in the bios. Nothing works!

  Hi kathleenvickers,

  1. How you have disabled all the user accounts on the computer?
  2. What do you find in the login screen when you restart the computer?

  See the articles below and check if it helps.

  How to connect to your Windows XP-based computer if you forget your password or if your password expires

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/321305

  Microsoft's strategy concerning lost or forgotten passwords

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/189126

• I deleted several accounts of users, but after that I have restart the laptop all user accounts have been restored?

  I deleted several user accounts and need to restart to changesw can take effect, but after that I have to restart the laptop then all user accounts have been restored?

  Hi GhettoBoy,

  How do you delete user accounts? Is it just C:\Dosument and settings users or accounts under the control panel? If you don't want to keep all these account data, you can try to delete the profile of click Start-> settings-> Control Panel-> system-> Advanced-> user profile and select the profile and remove. Also check under 'User accounts' in the control panel to remove the names of users.

  I hope this helps.