I've noticed that a lot of the questions in these newsgroups are either
directly or indirectly related to UAC (User Account Control). In this post,
I will go over what UAC does, how it works, the reasoning behind it, how to
use your computer with UAC on, why you shouldn't turn ...

After logon, I only see an empty destop, and I can access the task manager by
CTRL-ALT_DEL. I could run a sfc/scannow, which went fine but no improvements.
I am sure my profile is corrupted but I am not able to access control panel
to create a new one. Everything is loaded ...

About 3-4 months ago, I purchased a laptop with Windows Vista as
operating system. From time to time, I receive automatic updates from
Windows. For the last updates I allowed, in order for the new updates to
be installed, I needed to restart my computer. I did so, and then I was

hi, my uncle has a acer aspire 4710 laptop, and his mate thought he'd be
funny by putting passwords on it when he was drunk haha, anyways
passwords have been forgotten. there is a password on bios and the
system isnt set to boot off cd or flash so i am un able to use any

I had bought a new Laptop: -make Lenovo.
One Administrator account and one Guest account.
I am unable to login the Administrator account. Any way to reset the
same.

I cant log into any of my accounts on windows 7 after my Operating system
was hacked and cloned and remoted but the accounts are still on there does
anyone know how to fix that the ASPNET account is on there would that have
the same password as other machines since its a system ...

Ok i have  forgotten my password to my account i cant log in is there
any way i can log in to my computer i also dont have the reset password
disks and when i try F8 and do (repair your Computer) it still ask for
the password i dont remember so is there any way i can log???

coming  from china ,my english was so poor ,tomorrow is our cet4 test .hava
a nice day to all of you!

I'm quite savy at computers but this is tricky. My mom has me set on
parental controls for Windows Vista. She gave me her password and I
turned them out, logged off and then logged back on to my account. Then,
when I turned off the computer and she turned it back on the next day,

I don't know if this is the right place to post this question but if not may
someone could advise me where would be a better place.
I have a VB6 application that creates an ODBC System datasource on the fly.
However, with UAC enabled it will not create the ODBC datasource.  I ...

That pretty much sums it up. When I log on as admin, I get at least a
minute of delay when I try to start a program, resize a window, click an
icon in the taskbar, click a window in the taskbar, click a link in the
quicklaunch bar or close a window. During the delay I can move the

Recently I've got a laptop wich came with WIndos Vista HOme Premium
installed. I decided to put a Password in my administrator account, but I've
forgotten it...And there is no other open account, just the administrator one
of wich I've lost the password - I didn't create a ...

I was noline with Symantec Tech Support and the agent made a change to my
system without realizing it, and now I cannot login to my account. I get the
above message. What does it mean and how can I get it resolved?
I can log in as Admin, except that the system seems to be an order ...

The organization of Vista on my notebook is taking much longer than expected,
what with taking ownership of my own computer and all that stuff, just so
that I can clean up and install some additional software. Could someone
please help me with the following simple problem before ...

After re-installing Vista Home Premium, I cannot get access to parts of the
disk I need to get to, even though my account type is Administrator.  For
example, Windows Explorer gives an error message when try to get to
C:\Documents and Settings.  "Location not available.  Access ...