Windows 7 Home Premium - fast user switching

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• Windows 7 Home Premium - all user accounts have disappeared after the update of Windows...

  My Windows 7 Desktop is really watered.  After a Windows automatic update, none of the user accounts appear in the login window.  Only a generic connection where you will need to enter the user and the password are displayed.  And when I enter the user name and password, I get a message that they are not valid.

  Here are a few additional pieces of information:

  1. I tried to restore to the point before the update, but it fails.  I get a message that there are missing files.

  2. my other restore points I had before the update are no longer available.  I don't know what happened to them that they do not appear on the screen of restore points.

  3. I can't log on to the computer at all, none of the accounts work.  I can get to a command prompt by using the repair disk, and I can see all the folders for the users.  So everything is intact.   Something must have happened to some system files and thus connect is not possible.

  4. users appear in the list of profiles in the registry.

  5. no windows service start because none of the users are no longer valid.

  6. I tried sfc/scannow, but I get an error "already waiting.

  7. I tried to add users on the command line using net and they are successful but even when they do not appear on the login screen and I can't manually type in these user accounts - I get the message that they are not valid.

  I tried searching online and I'm still not able to connect to the computer.  It has been 2 days of downtime.  What happened to my old restore points?  And why doesn't my restore points created by the work of windows update?

  I want to just restore from factory default, but I'm afraid I'll lose data in particular, all of the files currently sitting in the user folders.

  Any advice would be much appreciated.

  Greg Lang

  E-mail address is removed from the privacy *.

  Here are a few comments:

  1. I tried to restore to the point before the update, but it fails.  I get a message that there are missing files.

  -> Which files are missing? Can you give an example?

  2. my other restore points I had before the update are no longer available.

  -> This happens after the automatic updates.

  5. no windows service start because none of the users are no longer valid.

  -> How to tell you, because you were unable to connect?

  7. I tried to add users on the command line using net and they are successful but even when they do not appear on the login screen and I can't manually type in these user accounts - I get the message that they are not valid.

  ->, I guess you have done this so that in the WRE (repair Windows environment). It is a ghost environment that disappears that you restart the system. Drive X: is a virtual, not a real disc.

  I want to just restore from factory default, but I'm afraid I'll lose data in particular, all of the files currently sitting in the user folders.

  -> Many people are unaware of the need for regular backups (for example, weekly) until they are suffering from a major disaster.

  Suggestions

  Going by your description, I suspect that your existing accounts are irreparable. They need to be rebuilt. User data appear to be safe.

  Option 1. Use the console commands then in WRE to save all the files of the user on an external hard drive. A disk 2.5 "500 GB in a USB enclosure costs less than $60,00. After having tested the files on another machine, perform a destructive factory restore.

  Option 2. Start the computer with a boot of Ubuntu CD, then its GUI allows to save files to the user. It takes time to burn such a CD, but the copy process is easier. When you're done, do a factory restore.

  Option 3. A somewhat complex process allows you to create a new admin account, and then use this account to create new user accounts. You must then manually configure each of them (for example Outlook) and move their records of the old data to the new profile folders.

  There is also a method to restore old files registry of a set of backup files are a few days old. In your case I wouldn't consider as it would create a disjoint system: the registry files refers to a set of files that have been largely modified by the update.

  Post again if you need more detailed instructions for the option that you favor.

• operating Windows 7 Home Premium, 2 user accounts. Running a Firefox user can run audio and video, the other cannot. Can anyone help?

  Two accounts put in place. You can listen to some audio and video using Firefox, the other account can not. The account cannot broadcast a / v is able to steam has / v to aid (sigh) MS Internet Explorer. Is there a setting that I messed up?

  There are some compatibility issues between the last Flash drive and a few Add-ons Firefox or settings. Could see you if anything in this article helps you: 11.3 Flash does not load video in Firefox.

• Where can I find a comparison of the features of Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional

  What is the difference between Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional approxinate purchase price?

  Home Premium can be redeployed?

  Can I give users running rights for the Home Premium to a printer on a local network?

  KCav

  See this.

  Compare editions of Windows 7

  Yes, Windows 7 Home premium can be redeployed if by redeployed say you installed on another computer, as long as it is uninstalled from the first and is a retail copy.

  Yes, Windows 7 Home premium allows users a network printer.

• I have Windows 7 Home Premium, which is a TOSHIBA SatEllite... I forgot my password.

  I have Windows 7 Home Premium, which is a TOSHIBA SatEllite... I forgot my password. I need to get on my computer if I will get my job licensee.   Please can sombody help me please!

  Original title: Please HELP now!

  See the guide to recovering lost password Windows 7 Home Premium account user, can't connect, connection problem

  Him begins the article with some basic steps you can take and then work upwards through more complicated methods where the easiest do not solve the problem. Please read the intro but then work through each section [section 8 you will save either].

  Follow the precautionary measures later in the thread as well.

  You could be up & running again within an hour, probably less.

• Windows 7 Home Premium switch user screen appears after that so much time has passed well that slowed after the SmileDesktop with screen saver is installed, but do not know how to stop it.

  I used the selective startup to the Office of Smile, which replaces and updates the old Webshots Desktop, which includes the automatic download and auto downloads of images from their site as well as a screen saver.

  There nothing good. rest after so many minutes I connect get back a windows screen does not cause me to lose any data or stop all processes. All running processes continue, but it's the nagging drawback of signing as myself to the computer after having been automatically set user to switch mode. It's probably the fault of this program. In addition, before this Webshots desktop update which included also a screen saver Windows update the eve told me don't not to unplug my computer and that she had to deal with several updates of windows, so I went and the computer stop moments later. The next day was when the message for an update has been waiting for the SmileDesktop program, which is a program that mimics Webshots Desktop, as well as replace the Webshots Desktop. After installed SmileDesktop automatically changed my screen saver settings that were on any mode SmileDesktop screen saver mode. I clicked on the option to disable screen saver. That's when I first noticed the screen splash appearing after that so many minutes of inactivity, change that said user and then I started to worry.
  Norton has found no problem with my computer, and
  Finally, I gave up.

  Hello

  Thanks for asking this question to Microsoft Community.

  If I understand correctly, you want to disable the fast user switching option. Could you please answer a few questions before moving?

  Since when are you facing the issue? Do you have any security program installed on the computer? How many accounts is configured on the computer? Have you done a recent software or changes to the material on the computer?

  Here is an article that will help you to turn off the fast user switching option. Alternatively, you can uninstall Office to smile and check if it helps. You can also make the screen saver password that is built into Windows. Follow these steps:

  (a) open screensaver settings by clicking the Start button, then Control Panel. In the search box, type screen saver, and then uncheck the box for password game screen.

  Hope this information is helpful and let us know if you need more assistance. We will be happy to help.

• Windows 7 Home premium eddition quick change of user strange behavior

  About two weeks ago fast user switching has stopped working properly on my system. He worked always go and suddenly after a reboot started working in a different way.

  We have two users, user A and B

  If A use is connected and selects 'Switch User' system back to what looks like the lock screen. The user then needs to hit the user button once again and then it shows the icons of small users, but only "user A and 'Another User' '

  Therefore the user must click on "Other user" and then enter the username and password of user B

  I don't know what has changed or why he has changed, but I can't seem to find someone with the same behavior. Any ideas?

  Hello

  As the Group Policy Editor is not available in the Home Premium from Windows 7 version, the other way of disabling it is through the registry editor.

  Important: this article contains information about how to edit the registry. Make sure that you back up the registry before you edit it. Make sure you know how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up, restore, and modify the registry, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Back up the registry

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/back-up-the-registry

  (a) click Start, type regedit.exe in the find dialog box or run and press enter.

  (b) access to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-SOFTWARE-Microsoft-Windows------CurrentVersion------policies------system

  (c) creates a DWORD (32-bit) value named HideFastUserSwitching with a right click on the right side of the editor and choice New > DWORD(32bit) value.

  (d) define data HideFastUserSwitching to 0 to disable the fast user switching.

  (e) in the future if you want to enable the fast user switching, set data HideFastUserSwitchingto 1.

  After, log to see the changes. Fast user switching should be crippling after completing the steps above.

• I can't access my home screen and the fast user switching!

  I get an error message when I try to change the way I connect
  "client services for NetWare has disabled the Welcome screen and the fast user switching. To restore these features, you must uninstall the Client Services for NetWare. "
  What is NetWare? Where is he? I don't find it on my program list to remove it! Help!

  To resolve this issue, follow these steps. NOTE: If you rely on access to a Novell network and need the Client Service for Netware or the Novell Client, you cannot use the home screen or fast Windows XP user switching features.

  1. If you are using the Novell Client, see the following Web site for instructions on how to uninstall Novell support:
     http://support.Novell.com (http://support.novell.com/)
  2. If you are using the classic view in Control Panel, double-click network connections. If you are using the category view, click on network connections and Internetand then click on network connections.
  3. Right-click each connection that you have, and then click Properties each time.
  4. Under the tab general in each Local network connection, select the Client Service for Netware, and then click Uninstall.
  5. In the Dial-up connection properties dialog box, click the Networking tab, highlight the Client Service for Netwareand then click Uninstall.
  6. Restart the computer.
  7. Open Control Panel, and then double-click user accounts.
  8. Under pick a task..., click on change the way users log on or off the power.
  9. Click to select the opening and closing of session options you want: use of the Welcome screen or use quick user change.

• Why the fast user switching and the new Windows Search use the Terminal Services?

  Recently, I was struck by a piece of really bad, malicious malware that totally trashed my operating system.  Therefore, as I rebuild my system, I am applying the appropriate safety precautions.  Among the recommendations of Microsoft is to reduce your footprint of security by disabling unnecessary services.  One of these services that I thought I didn't need was Terminal Server services, since it is a way for a person to get to my machine remotely.

  It turns out that, however, other services that I want to use, such as Fast user Switching and window new search utility, depend on the Terminal Server Services.  It makes no sense to me from a safety point of view.  This seems to be a bad design decision, because security trumps utility.

  If Microsoft is listening, I would like to know why you made this decision and you have changed in Windows 7?

  Second, is there a way to always have the Terminal services Server running and at the same time cut access remotely through this service?

  I don't know about the 'new' Windows Search, but what about the fast user switching you ask to run several sessions of Windows when you switch between users (a session for each user connected) and the only way that Windows can do is to act as a quasi Terminal Server, it needs Terminal Server services to run multiple sessions.

  John

• If I install Windows Vista Home Premium to my Windows XP is it go faster?

  Hi, I want to know if I install Windows Vista Home Premium on my Windows XP Home Edition it will go faster? Now, Windows XP is very slow and my son wants to play online games and he can't because the computer will have to slow down. So I was wondering if I install the Windows Vista disc I had, this will make faster? and the computer I have an adapter to receive Web, couldn't that make it slow to? Please answer.

  It depends on the specifications of the system... XP might be infected with something, if its slow. You have it scanned with an AV program or something? Vista needs a bit more ram than XP. So, if there is not enough ram in the system, Vista can be just as slow (or slower) than XP. If the conversation of youre cable is an ethenet cable, you need it. Or you will not get on the internet

• Active Directory Domain Services is currently unavailable ___I am Windows 7 Home premium; and I'm the User.___How do to ensure that the available ADDS? ___

  After about 3 weeks working with Dell Inspiron 14 R and print with HP laserjet 1020, without problem, now I have a problem: when I try to "find the printer (in MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel for example) I get the message: Active Directory Domain Services is currently unavailable.

  I am running Windows 7 Home premium; and I'm the user.

  I try to remove and reinstall hp laser jet 1020 once again, but the problem still exist.

  After I opened the menu devices and printers, and then click the Hp Laser Jet 1020, the category of this printer icon: 'unknown '.

  How can I make the available ADDS?

  Try this weird cure:

  Just open Notepad, go get a printer and add the printer from here.

  I can now print all programs.

  He worked for others; like I said, weird!

• I have problems keeping records and files of the administrator and the user separate in my laptop (HP Pavilion dv6700) under Windows Vista Home Premium.

  I have problems separating records and files of the administrator and the user. My computer is a laptop (HP Pavilion dv6700), used as a home computer only by myself, I like to keep the two distinct roles, but am unable to as Vista seems to be considered as one and the same. This scenario has arisen as follows:

  Initially, when I bought the laptop - approx. 18 months back - Windows Vista Home Premium was preinstalled, with the name 'Administrator' as an administrator. To customize the operating system and to use safely, I installed a user 'Renault', as a Standard account user.

  After awhile, I changed the name of the Director of "Renault", for reasons I have can not remember now. This caused Vista to combine folders and files of the two "users" in one, I found difficult to deal with, that I could not operate my laptop as just a Standard user, but is still considered the "administrator." On the one hand, this greatly increased spam in my email accounts. So I tried to reset the name of the administrator as 'Administrator' itself and keep my user name as "Renault", as originally the case.  But Vista me has failed to create a new user under the name "Administrator". So I created a new user under the name "System administrator", with administrative privileges. This has been accepted by Vista.

  But I forgot to change the user account for 'Renault', on the Standard account, so there was BOTH administrator accounts at the same time on my laptop! I realized that now only. The net result was that all the files that I created under the system administrator user were still being displayed under the user account of Renault. A few days back, I realized this and tried to separate the files correctly, but it has not been possible. No matter what I copied the account of the user in the files under the system administrator account, the files have been copied on account of the user himself.

  I tried to fix this by changing the name of the user account in something very different, AND as a Standard user. but this also does not work, as all folders and files under the administrator account system shows it as being under the user account of "Renault" only!

  Then, I deleted the user 'Renault' from the list of the user, but he was not yet of any help. Whenever I tried to create a new file under the system administrator, Vista responds with the message, "C:\user\Rajaram folder is not present. Will I create a new? ", which defeat the same purpose of my tent to isolate the administrator account and the user account.
  
  SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE WITH A SOLUTION, - OTHER THAN REFORMATTING MY C:\ DISK AND REINSTALL VISTA AGAIN - TO GET OUT OF THIS MESS, IT SEEMS TO ME YOU HAVE CREATED AND HELP ME TO HAVE AN ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT AND OTHER UNIQUE STANDARD USER ACCOUNTS PROPERLY ISOLATED.

  I would be always grateful for a quick and helpful response.
  Thanks in advance.

  -RAJARAM77
   
  Thanks for your reply. It was very helpful / sorry your proposed solution has not solved my problem. Kind regards. -Rajaram77

  Better to delete the user account except the one that was built in the administrator account that you renamed. Before this backup all your data files of these user accounts.
  Then rename the buil into account administrator as 'administrator '. Then you create another administrator account and use it and never the user built in Administrator account and leave it alone.

• Windows 7 Home Premium - cannot change the user name in the authentication dialog box

  I was hoping someone might be able to answer a question on how to get a computer running Windows 7 Home Premium to display both the username and password fields when attempting to authenticate on another Windows computer.

  Here's the situation: allow us that the leaders and other members of the staff allowed our Organization to establish a VPN connection to our corporate network (via Fortinet Forticlient, for what it's worth.)  Once the VPN connection is established, on the remote computer, the user must be able to access the UNC path to our file (\\servername\share) server.

  Because the remote user has not yet authenticated on the domain Active Directory of business, a dialog box should appear to the user input a user name and password.  Enter the user name (domain\username) and password and share should open, and the user must then be able to access the files in the share.

  I (and several other members of the staff) have been using this method successfully to access files via the VPN connection, and it works very well.  However, it does not work whenever the President of the company will connect to the VPN from his computer at home.

  Whenever the President connects the VPN and attempts to access the UNC path, he reports that the dialog box which appears on his computer at home has only one field for a password; the user name field appears to be on his local user account, and it doesn't have the ability to change.  (I have him asked if there is an option 'use authentication information', and he declares that there is not just a dialog box with a single field, the field of password.)

  The President is running Windows 7 Home Premium on his computer at home, so I thought that the problem could be because he was running this edition of Windows.  However, I have installed VPN client and test the connection on the server share file using the computer of my wife, who is also running Windows 7 Home Premium, and I received the two fields as expected authentication dialog box and has been able to authenticate to the domain successfully and open files from the share with no problems.

  Does anyone have recommendations on what I can try to allow the President to authenticate successfully to our server share?  I am confused, and it is eager to be able to get remote access to files on his home computer.

  Hello

  Please contact Microsoft Community.

  I suggest you to ask your question in the Technet Forums, where we are the support technicians who are well equipped with the knowledge on these issues. Please visit the following link to go to them and post your query there:

  https://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/Windows/en-us/home?category=w7itpro

  Have a great day.

• Why isn't the local users and groups in Windows 7 Home Premium active?

  Unfortunately, the page of "Compare editions" for Windows 7 does not show that it is disabled for Windows 7 Home Premium.  So, I think that Microsoft is engaged in false advertising by activating only not this snap-in Control Panel.

  
  

  Bottom line is: I need to access the Panel to ensure that I am in the Visual Studio debugger users group.  So, I can't debug anything.  The software does not work properly.

  
  

  Microsoft should immediately activate this feature.

  I'm sorry, but no original version of Windows has always included local users and groups .

  I recommend posting your question in the MSDN Visual Studio Forums , where other developers can answer. They know how to do what you want.

  To get your suggestion to the right people at Microsoft, please click the give us your comments. Help improve Windows 7 link under ads at the top of the main page of the forum, or go to the page give us your comments for Windows 7 . Boulder computer Maven
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• You can disable "Fast user switching" in window 7 Professional?

  Windows Help on the 'Welcome' screen, said that "Fast User Switching is enabled by default," which means that it can be disabled.  But Windows Help does not say how this could be done.  Can someone explain?

  I also want to turn off the display of the names of user accounts available on the 'Welcome' screen, as we did to the XP, but it seems that it's not possible.  True? -JCW2

  See if it's what you want.

  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/61650-log-user-name-password.html