hi folks i've lost my password for my computer and dont have a recovery disc
if any body can suggest what i can do please help im in desperate need for
help as microsoft havent been useful at all it would be much apreciated

My wife and I have been unable to Login & repeatedly get the above message.
I have looked on all the relevant threads noting the above and can't find a
solution because each solution requires 1) accessing "Start", 2) accessing
msconfig, 3) setting up a second administrator.

I apologize for any repetition but I'm pretty sure this is a fairly
unique problem.
My girlfriend bought a Toshiba laptop and it came with Vista Home on
it. It worked fine for a while and then it spontaneously decided that

O/S: Window Vista Ultimate SP1 with elevated administrator
level (no UAC prompts).
I tried to change a user account name e.g.
Owner to MyName

Hello....  I have Vista Home Premium insatalled on a Dell Inspiron 531.
When I try to download a program, (like the upgrade for SpySweeper, or
Roboform for example), in my C Drive, to Program Files, I get a message
that tells me I can't do this - only the administrator can.  It ...

I've been rude to many of you in the past
and will be rude again in the future but i am trying
to change.
I mean to get to some of you personally soon.

OK so I have a windows live account and I get into hotmail and other
micro sites just fine. The problem is when I am over on craigslist I am
trying to respond to a listing I click on the reply to and the
login.passport.com pops up for me to login with my username and

Administrator Account, C:\Users\Administrator Folders And Registry Sid
Key Ok but Another Users and other Admin Account shown welcome screen
but Registry Sid Key and User Profiles not have when tick welcome screen
this account "User profile service failed to log on user profile ...

A few days ago, My computer got infected with a virus (I don't know which
one), but my anti-virus system automatically removed it. During the viruses's
activation process, it changed my background to a plain blue screen. Now,
whenever I try to change the background, I gat this ...

A standard user account has disappeared as a login option. It's also not
listed under the user accounts on my control panel. HOWEVER, the files
are still all there under C:\users etc and it is still listed in the
registry editor

Help! I was using my HP with Vista installed as usual on Friday afternoon.
When I turned my computer back on Saturday my desktop had changed: my icons
were no longer available, new ones had been added, my background picture had
changed, etc. Because I had a valuable file on my ...

The following works properly on XP but not on Vista. The error message is
"The parameter is incorrect".
Set objSh = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
objSh.ShellExecute "notepad.exe", "" , "", "runas", 1

Old PC unrepairable , old hard disk ok and now set up as E drive cant access
files as previous win xp had password entry. how do i access data on files

just installed vista home premium
it says im administrator but when i got to do anything it says im not
administrator
eg while trying to install from a disk i get this

I need permission is C:/windows (the entire windows folder) So that i
can remove notepad.exe and put in notepad++.exe
It also needs to be done inside the /windows/system32 folder thats why
i need permission to the entire windows folder.