I'm having a problem with my daughter getting on the computer while I'm
sleeping. Is there a way I can view the history of what dates and times that
I logged onto my computer or a history of when my computer was booted up?

I am the administrator of my system along with one other user yet when I go
to remove or add programs I get the message must have administration right to
compelte this task.
what can be done.

I'm having problems with Vista storing my user names for various sites
that I visit. Does anybody know how to fix this so that it does not
happen anymore?

I have to enter my password twice for it to "take". Same problem on my
desktop, my laptop, my wife's desktop (she has XP, I have Vista).  Obviously,
I need to check or uncheck something.  Where and how?

I've had a problem for a while now with my Vista Ultimate 32bit. It is
the Upgrade version. A few months ago I had to do a reinstall, so I had
to install vista, then reinstall it to register with my key.
Since this time, I don't have full admin privilidges (yes, I understand

As I said, my user accounts appear twice on the welcome screen, and when I
turn the guest account on, it appears twice as well. What do I do? How do I
get it back to normal?

I just bought a laptop installed with Vista Premium and when i tried to open
the group policy management console, it says gpedit.msc file does not exist.I
checked the system 32 folder and it does not have it either.Can anyone
please advise me as to what i need to do in this case ...

This is for the built in administrator account. It happens everyday now. deleting ntuser.dat was a temp solution that allowed login until you log off(I think).

When your logged into the administrative account ( like i always am ) is
their a way to tell it too stop asking administrative permission before you
edit your own files?
every time i delete something on one of my HD partitions it says i need to

I have a DELL XPS 420 with a Maxtor 250GB ext hard
drive... I did a 'Complete PC Backup' to B: drive (The ext Maxtor)
Next, I rebooted and used the system repair from the boot menu... this
formated my hard drive and set everything back to the DELL factory

Hi,I just installed Windows Vista Ultimate Service Pack 1,and I have create
my Administrator Account with Password Protected,and a Standard User for my
family.
But my brother loged in as a Standard User,did something in REGEDIT and I

I tried to login to the administrator account today and it says:
The group policy client service failed the login
Access is denied.
Any ideas?

I know I've done this before on a Vista system, but on a new install  I can't
find any way to change the system environment variables: I need to add
something to the 'path' variable.
Please help!

I recently purchased a new PC with 250G HDD, with Vista.  Dell formatted 10G
for a recovery partition, and left the remaining ~240Gig for the OS.  I have
used the Shrink function to decrease that 240Gig to create a new
partition(s), but the shrink function lets me decrease the ...

Today when I turned on my computer, and logged onto my user account, instead
of opening up normally, I got like a brand new desktop with none of my
settings.  But when I was searching to see what might have happened, under
C:/users   my account is there with all of my stuff but ...