Questions tagged [user-accounts]
Usually a personal account on a computer system that allows access to a system's (advanced) functions.
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Require two sign-in options on Windows 11 before allowing user to log on
Is it possible to require two sign-in options on Windows 11 before allowing a user to log in? For example, if an account has a password, a pin, and a fingerprint, is it possible to require the user to ...
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Rename admin account on Windows 11
Usually use a Mac, so I'm already out of my element. I got my Dell XPS fixed recently, which included a full wipe. They also (unexpectedly) updated my OS from 10 to 11.
They created a local account ...
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Getting “System error 8646 has occurred.” when trying to change a user password as an administrator in Windows 10
I'm trying to change my password via the command prompt on Windows 10. I'm not on a guest an account or anything mind you, I am the main user. Anyway, I load up cmd as an Administrator and try to ...
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Why is Windows 10 claiming my Microsoft-managed user account password is wrong?
I'm having some PC issues, so I've been attempting to reset my Windows installation via the advanced startup settings. Problem is, this requires you to log in to your Windows account. My Windows ...
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Do security questions gate EFS for local Windows accounts?
If the user forgets their account password and recovers the account by answering their configured security questions, will they lose access to EFS-secured files? Or is guessing the recovery questions ...
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Windows 10 Error After Logging in
After logging in to our domain, some users have the following message appearing on their desktop:
The current user (DOMAIN\Username) is unknown, please contact your system administrator.
Users can ...
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Terminal not asking for password while using sudo
Yesterday I was trying to install larbs installation on a different user. It did not work and I had to delete the other user.
When I came back to my admin user I realised that it was not asking for my ...
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On Google Chrome, is there a way to start with a new Google Account profile on Windows command line?
I'm using public computers.
On Google Chrome, is there a way to start with a Google Account profile on Windows command line? This account is new to Chrome, since what I want is to login into a browser ...
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How to add new users to a group without specifying?
I googled a bit for this (maybe incorrect keywords), but I didn't find how to do that.
Consider the following commands:
useradd -s /bin/bash -m user1
useradd -s /bin/bash -m user2
useradd -s /bin/bash ...
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Windows 11 creating new users profiles on every login
I've had a problem for about a week.
First off, I can't sign in like I usually do (via PIN code). The only way at the moment is to login with my Microsoft Account every time. I've tried setting up a ...
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How to install drivers for all users in windows 11
I have two accounts in my Windows 11 machine: "Administrator" and "John".
I installed the driver for my digital graphic tablet in Administrator account, and everything works ...
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Able to change / switch a Office 365 (now Microsoft 365) main account domain to one added within the organization?
I have a 365 account with multiple domains. For simplicity's sake lets just use two, the one I made the account with and another I added to the account that I would like to make the the primary domain....
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What is the technical name for ".\" when logging into a local account for windows?
I know that you can you can use .\ in place for for the computer name when logging into a local account on Windows (Ex: ComputerName\Username = .\Username).
What is the technical term or nomenclature ...
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Why doesn't the login screen show a created New-LocalUser or the Administrator account?
Login is with a pin code and right clicking on cmd allows running in an elevated mode as Administrator so that new accounts can be created:
adding a user:
PS C:\Windows\System32>
PS C:\Windows\...
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Open GUI of Mac applications of other user accounts
I want to run multiple Microsoft Teams on Mac Os. Teams don't provide the functionality to add multiple organizations in the app, its web app is not that good. So tried various combinations to run ...
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