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Tagged with login user-accounts
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Windows 7 user login fails even with correct password
Booted up my Windows 7 partition today and attempted to login per usual. Denied access due to incorrect password failure, despite having entered the password I have been using for the past three ...
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User name isn't automatically selected anymore in login screen
On my computer, I am running Windows XP Home Edition SP2 with only one user account. I prefer the newer Windows XP login screen (where you click the user to get in) rather than typing in the user name ...
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Windows 7 enterprise lock out; only displaying admin user
I was trying to set up a home network on my Windows 7 admin machine, to do this, I needed to log in as an admin.
The problem is, I restarted the computer and now only the admin user is being ...
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Local XP account randomly locks
So there's a computer on my network at work that has a local account on it. This computer is on the network but not on the domain. The account is used to create gift cards. At least once a week ...
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New Admin user account password repetitively fails to login in Windows 7
Strange problem. From a Windows 7 Admin account I create a new user with admin privileges. Then I set a new password for the new account and log out of the original Admin account. Then I try to ...
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Windows 7 Logs in to "public" user
I have issues that sometimes when I log into windows (on a specific account) it shows public user (C:\Users\Public)'s desktop.
All of the users are in a domain. I tried deleting the user through ...
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How to hide user account from Windows 7 welcome screen, without changing registry manually?
Can I hide user account from Windows 7 welcome screen, without changing registry manually and without disabling the account?
I've done this once by following instructions on a website, now I cant ...
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Is Remote\username same as ComputerName\username or username in windows 7/xp?
Is there any difference if I log in as:
username
computername\username
remote\username
domainname\username
something\username
I want my computer to behave differently depending how I log in. Is ...
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"other user" Showing up on Logon Screen
For the past few days, I've had a new icon on the logon screen. Apart from my admin account, I now have an account labeled "other user", with just a frame and no user icon. What could be causing this, ...
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How to avoid the login screen when returning from standby?
When my computer comes out of standby mode. It still ask me which user I am. Still, I'm the only user. So this seems a bit useless.
How can I prevent this extra click? Standby settings don't seem to ...
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How to hide admin account and only show main user at logon screen in Windows?
When a user boots Windows is there a way to only show a single user that then asks for a password. For example, I have an admin user and a regular user. When the computer boots I do not want the user ...
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What kind of sorting does the Windows 7 login screen use for usernames?
I’ve set up ten Windows 7 user accounts, so that I can test different versions of Google Chrome*. I’ve named the accounts “Chrome 01”, “Chrome 02”, and so on.
Ideally, I’d like the accounts sorted on ...
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How to set user account as default selected in login screen on windows 7? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to “preselect” a certain user on the Windows 7 login screen?
How can I set a user account to be selected per default in login screen on windows 7 so ...
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Login failed after installing IE8 on Windows XP
I can't login to Windows XP after installing Internet Explorer 8.
I installed the software from Microsoft under it prompted me to reboot. After the reboot I'm asked for the user password but the PC ...
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How can I work out which user is currently logged into a Windows 7 machine?
I have a machine running Windows 7 which I set up a long time ago to autmatically log into Windows.
That's still working fine, but how can I work out the username of the currently logged-in user when ...
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