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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How to get rights of admin after I disabled all admin accounts in my computer
I accidentally disabled my admin account.
After I login to another account I found I can not get admin rights, because all admin accounts on my computer are disabled.
I clicked on 'run as ...
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How do I start Chrome using a specified "user profile"?
I use the new built-in "Users" feature of Chrome to switch between Home/Work accounts easily. However, Chrome remembers the "last" user profile you had selected when launching new windows. This is a ...
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How to set default user for manually installed WSL distro?
I have cloned a WSL distro using wsl --export and wsl --import, but now, running wsl newdistro always logs me in as root. I understand that the lxrun command is deprecated and want to avoid it. The ...
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Can two users simultaneously share one pc
It's easy to have multiple user accounts on one computer and even switch between accounts without logging off. It is also possible to have more than one display connected to a single computer.
Is it ...
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Disconnect Microsoft account from my local account
I was happily using local account on my Windows 8/8.1 machine. Was. Today I wanted to install some app from Windows Store. I wanted to assess some UX scenario in it. To do so I had to sign in using my ...
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How do I change a user name in Windows 7?
I have an install of Windows 7 that I've already put a few days into. Today I realized I've made a mistake in the username and it's driving me nuts (my personal OCD).
While changing the physical ...
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How to apply group policy settings to specific local accounts in Windows
I created a limited user account and want to restrict USB and CD drive access using group policy settings. Hence I want to use gpedit.msc to enforce restrictions on the limited account and disable ...
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Windows 10 - Users already logged in at boot
Since the recent Fall Creators Update I'm facing a strange behavior while using Windows 10. My brother and I are using different accounts, both protected by password. When I turn on my PC and sign in, ...
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Locked out of Windows 10: login no longer shows Administrator, but only an account that I never used
I downloaded and updated my Windows 7 pro to Windows 10 today. I had two user accounts in Windows 7 before update; Administrator and Ritesh. I never used Ritesh account, so over the time I even forgot ...
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mysql how to fix Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
Before I screw up something, when I login using $ mysql -u root -p, and show databases:
+--------------------+
| Database |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql ...
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Is "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" a user or a group?
In Windows the user System is displayed with the group symbol:
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(Using the internal Win32 API LookupAccountSid also reveals that it seems to be a group SidTypeGroup.)
On the other hand processes can ...
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Hide account from login screen but can be used in UAC
So I have a Windows 7 home machine with 2 user accounts. One is a standard user account and one is an administrator account. Now this is going to be put in the hands of a very low-tech user so I don'...
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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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How to create new user and set the privilege for this account on windows 8
How to create new user and set the privilege for this account on windows 8?
Since 3 of my family share the same computer, and I hope I could keep their privacy from each other.
How can I do that?
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Samba+Windows: Allow multiple connections by different users?
I have a machine running Ubuntu with Samba that I use to share stuff with my family's Windows machines in our local network. Currently they access a share for movies/music/etc with one user.
I want ...
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