I am a windows vista home user and I changed the administrative password. I
did not fill up the password hint question. Today, when I try to log on the
computer, my password is not accepted and when I try to restore it asks for a
floppy or a flash drive. Please let me know how I ...

I did a bad thing by removing all the users on the machine from the
administrators group.  In addition, by default the built-in administrator is
disabled.
I was trying to setup a specific user as an admin and the others as standard

Hi All!!
Upon making a Limited User account while making a How-To guide for Vista,  
stumbled upon this flaw.
A Limited User is able to make an Aministrator User. Therefore bypassing the

i have a new computer with the new vista..and i caint play most of my pogo
mgames and i caint play games i have bought from pogo.com..i hate this vista,
i caint do anything i used to do and enjoy, when searching for answers i get
"sorry no updates at this time, program will not ...

I have been running Vista Business edition for the best part of a year
now, and though there have been some quirks i am happy with it as a
developer platform.
Last monday though it started behaving rather strangely. I might be

Why is it that some programs when run, pop up the UAC dialog, which says "an
unidentified program wants to access your computer", and then asks your
permission to run it? How does Vista "identify" a program?
Please don't tell me about the permissions & such like for UAC, I've ...

I am running into permission problems when trying to install a zip file
running winzip into a chosen folder. Keep getting access denied. What is up
with that? It is my computer and I choose to install into a folder of my
choice. -irish

I need to run chkdsk on a 500GB disk (NTFS) since it hangs when doing it on
startup.  I am trying to do it in a command window as a user logged in as
administrator (on the local machine) in Vista Ultimate (64 bit), but get the
error "unable to run chkdsk without elevated ...

everything was nice since i've been using windows vista.
but recently, after my firefox is crashed for few times (close the
program while it is not responding)
when i run firefox again, windows prompt me for running the software as

i am using vista home/basic edition.
when i log on to windows it appers me the user account and i can't log on
with administrator .  i can find it no where .
how can i access windows with administartor  account ?

Disabled Windows Defender, Disabled the Windows Firewall, Disabled Indexing
and finally the hard drive is not running constantly. The "access denied" for
administrative user is a constant annoyance. The hidden spyware "is your copy
genuine?" and the undocumented "features" ...

We bought this dell with vista home basic instaled on it 3 weeks ago and my
son set it up for me, he is 16 and he set it up as him being the
administrator and won't give the password to me. Is there anyway to reset it
so I can be the administor he is going to websites we do not ...

It would really improve UAC if it had some "smarts".   Once a user explicitly
approves a privilege elevation, especially if a password is typed in, the
security mechanism should automatically elevate subsequent requests
automatically, i.e. not prompt the user.  

I'm using Vista Home Premium.  I initially gave myself Admin privileges but
don't want to run that way normally.  Is there a "Administrator" account
hidden or do I manually have to set that one up myself?

I have Vista Business and Home Premium.  Both OS let me set up my account
without problems. However after a short time (hours) after a restart my
shutdown/restart options in the start menu were gone (all I had was the lock
which could be expanded to logoff/switch user options), I ...