Adding And Deleting A User Account
Sep 26, 2009
Made the mistake of creating a User Account, "the Smiths," and then later changing User Name to "Ed" with password on older computer running XP. Would now like that account to be "Ed" to be consistent with another computer running Vista on my LAN. Is the correct way to make this change (1) change the User Name of "the Smiths" from "Ed" to say "Smith" as a temporary expedient, (2) create a new User Account name "Ed," which will generate the necessary file structure under Documents and Settings along with its User Name of "Ed", (3) copy files from Documents and Setting he Smiths to Documents and SettingEd and (4) delete the User Account "the Smiths"? My biggest concern is the copying of files - most of which I do not understand their value/purpose?
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Aug 1, 2009
This may not matter but it is regarding a 64-bit system.When the new computer was originally set up, it was not networked and there was no reason for a user name with password. Now the computer is part of a network so it was necessary to have a password. Additionally, the user's name had a typo error.We attempted to correct the spelling of the user name and add a password but the results were not as anticipated.Going into Control Panel/Users, the old incorrect name does not appear.In Windows Explorer, immediately under Desktop, the old user name does appear and the subfolders under that user name cannot be accessed.Under c:/Users, the new correct user name appears and those files are fully accessible.We would like to fully delete the incorrect user name and the associated folders that cannot be accessed anyway. However, I am concerned because on other Vista computers the user name always appears both under Desktop and under Users. I am also worried about deleting other folders under the incorrect user name for fear that the computer may need these even though we did not create them. how to delete these unwanted items and confirm what subfolders we can safely delete.
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Mar 23, 2008
I use a admin account on my computer but when I added standard user account it will not open some web pages for example when I go to my yahoo mail it will show the email but when I click on it, it will not show any text, but when I use the administrator account the web page works fine, I can see and read all emails. Another example is when I go to ask.com and search under the standard user it comes up as a blank page but will show search results under the administrator account. I have windows vista home and 7.0 explorer.
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Apr 5, 2008
Whenever I sync my newsgroups with Win Mail, I get a number next to the ng, i.e.. microsoft.public.pocketpc (6) even though I have used the "catch-up" function then delete but that still shows up. Is there a file in appdata that I can delete to get rid of it?
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Jan 24, 2009
I have recently created a new user account on my Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit OS because I had problems with my CPU Usage firing up to 100. Anyways, I made this new account and kept some of the files from my old account. My problem is that the old account is still showing up in the Computer>OS(C:)>Users folder, and when I try to delete it it says I need permission. I tried the "Taking Ownership" tutorial and that didn't help because it still said I needed permission to delete it. I also tried to go to Properties>Security and give myself (the only admin on my computer) complete rights to delete/rename/etc. No such luck there either. So I guess my two questions are:
1) Can I delete my old user account files and how?
2) Can I rename this new account so that it doesn't show up as OldName_2 in the file directory?
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Mar 29, 2008
Does anyone know of a way to remove the virtual folder links that appear under your username in Explorer? I mean the folders like "Videos", "Searches" and "Links". I know some of these folders serve an important purpose(like "Links", "Favorites", "Contacts", "Desktop"), but I'd like to move them somewhere
else and not have them clutter up the tree view when I'm trying to navigate around my files in Explorer.
I can move them to another physical location (using the Location tab on the properties window), but when I go back to Explorer, links to them appear as sub-folders as though they were still in my userprofile directory. This really winds me up -- I think I should be allowed to organise my own file system, without Microsoft deciding what folders I need!
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Mar 4, 2009
I have two programs that need to run on boot up. In both cases I get prompted to allow. Can I turn this prompt off for particular users by turning UAC off? Or does it turn off for everyone? Can UAC be configured to be off for JUST these two programs?
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Aug 12, 2008
I was just wondering if anyone could tell me about user accounts. I wanted to know if when you rename an account is it possible to rename the user file. An example is an account called "a" to an account called "b". I rename it to "b" the user file is still c:windowsusersa How would I go about changing the file name?
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Feb 22, 2010
i have a problem do you guys usually put your nickname or your full own name for your vista account because i found out that vista does not have the capable of putting password on files.
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Mar 5, 2009
All of the folders on my
user account are gone and Vista reverted everything like my account was
just created. I lost all of my files and everything else I have had. Its
all been deleted!
It started this morning when I logged in and everything off of my
desktop was gone. All of the files and everything. I don't know what
happened, I didn't delete the account or make a new one or anything.
All I know is that my brother, he was stupidly going through my
files from his user account (through Computer/Users), since he was made an admin, and he was deleting some files off of my user account. I'm not sure what it was but it must have been something he deleted that messed up everything! I still see some of the items in my garbage can of stuff that might have been deleted by the moron. The
other user accounts are fine, its just mine that is missing everything
and acting like its a brand new account.
I don't know what he deleted but I know he didn't do a complete wipeout of my account.I
still have a feeling that my files are somewhere because the hard drive
is still the same size.
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Nov 7, 2009
I have accidently deleted my user account off my laptop (vista home premium 32bit) but my files are still there in the user section of my hard drive. Can i recover it? If so how? I have only recently deleted it and I have another account with administrator privledges on it.
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May 31, 2008
I want to be able to automatically log onto my user account after sleep or shutdown. I unchecked 'require password etc.' under 'control userpasswords2'. But it keeps logging on to an administrator account.Is there a way to make the computer open at the desktop of my standard account? I would like the administrator account to be password protected.
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Jun 15, 2009
My pc recently died whilst running a backup, so now i have no backup. Anyway, upon restarting after this issue, I can't log into my user account fully. I can get to a plain black desktop and I get this message in a bubble "Your user profile was not loaded correctly. You have been logged on with the default profile for the system. Please see the event log for details or contact your system administrator" I can't access my files of programs
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Nov 6, 2008
My Office suite has had a bit of a fit, and the fix I've found involves creating a new user account, then exporting that account's registry. The kicker is that when I create a new user account, nothing happens. The profile shows up, as does the picture, but no directory is created in the Users folder, nor in the registry.
So, it shows up, but doesn't actually exist, and when I try and sign on to this new account, it says "The user profile service failed the log in. The user account can not be loaded." why this is happening and how to fix it?
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Jan 27, 2010
I am giving my computer to a friend and am trying to clean it up for her. I added she and her husband as administrators and then deleted my account. But when I restart the computer I get a notice that the name is not the correct one. I change the user, but I end up having to click on my name which is still there, and entering my password. Then I see two of each of our icons. I can then click on another person. I went into the system and checked and it shows only the other two people as administrators and does not show my name.
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Mar 23, 2008
I noticed a Standard user named "dlbj_IAM" in my Parental Controls and I didn't create this account. I have a stand alone Vista Premium computer with wireless connectivity. The account doesn't show up in "User Accounts" or when I check the users folder creation in explorer to determine when it was created - there are no folders created for this user. I would like to determine when this account was created and if there has been any wireless activity before deleting this account.
I set parental controls to high and put every restriction I could find on this account. I have gone to Admin Tools, Computer Management in hopes to look in Local Users and Groups but it doesn't exist. Is this something different about Vista Premium?
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Mar 16, 2010
I made a user account a while back for the family members that always get on my computer so that they didnt mess with anything on my account. Why i didnt just use guest side im still not sure. I want to delete this account and turn on guest but it will not let me do anything with it. I have tried changing it to standard and deleting and nothing. I went into safe mode and tried to delete it and still nothing. Turned on the built in administrator account and still nothing. Im tired of them being able to change setting and things on the other side and i can not do anything about it,
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Jan 13, 2008
I am listed as the Administrator on my laptop. After my Dad gave me this PC after having it and registering in his name, I renamed the Administrator from his name to mine. When I go under User Accounts, I am the only user listed. However, when I boot my computer, my Dad's log in information is listed first and it starts up automatically saying "Username or password is invalid" and then I have the click "Switch User" to log in under myself. I have tried to delete User Account in Safe Mode, but that did not work either. How can I delete this account so I may start up my computer with just my login information??
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May 1, 2009
I've created a new user account but can't log into it - I always get the message "The User Profile Service failed the logon. User Profile cannot be loaded". I can log into all other user accounts. I am wondering if this has anything to do with the fact that I removed a user and then deleted the users's folder and all the files in that folder including NTUSER.dat file. Is there something I need to do to be able to log into the new user account(s)?
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Jul 4, 2008
I cannot solve an issue with trying to access a Windows XP shared printer from a Vista Ultimate PC. I have read several articles on this on the web and tried a lot of the suggestions, but I am still not getting anywhere with this. My User accounts cannot print from Vista to the shared XP printer. The printer status shows Error - Printing. I have opened up the security permissions on the printer share to include Everyone, Guests, Users, Anonymous Users with full access, and I still get this error. My Administrator account does not have any problems printing from Vista.
Both computers are on the same workgroup. Both computers have identical user accounts with identical passwords and permission sets. The printer is an HP C4100. I checked with HP and I have the latest print driver. I have tried adding the shared printer using both local and shared printer settings, but still no luck. Both computers have all of the latest service packs and updates. I am at my wits end trying to fix this.
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Aug 2, 2009
I tried to install postgresql-8.4.0. I didn't turn off User Account Control before doing that, which seems to be recommended. I think Postgres tried to create a user account called 'postgres', but it failed (I suspect because of UAC). Postgres installation could not finish normally. When I look in the Control PanelUser Accounts, no 'postgres' user is visible. When I try to create a new user called 'postgres' however, I get the following error message:
Quote: The specified account name is not valid, because account names cannot contain the following characters: /[]":'|< >+=,?* Please type a different name. It looks like I'm stuck with a corrupted 'postgres' user. Is there a way to clean this up?
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May 15, 2010
I would just like to ask a question about the UAC; if you disable the UAC account on a User does that disable it for the whole computer?
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Oct 8, 2008
And now I don't find the message I thought I sent 8 hours ago.
Which said roughly that I'm not finding my tries at making a user account without there being the conflict between 2 instances of Webroot's firewall, etc.
Should be asking in another place, but I can't find that place.
How do I determine what each acct. is made of, what pgms what files?
I see something about "Profiles", but the help files here tell me all about what profiles do, but not how to determine the profile's character.
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Feb 15, 2009
How to turn off User Account Control ?
The endless prompts are driving me batty ...
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Oct 14, 2008
User Account Control. We promised that this blog would provide a view of Engineering Windows 7 and that means that we would cover the full range of topics—from performance to user interface, technical and non-technical topics, and of course easy topics and controversial topics. This post is about User Account Control. Our author is Ben Fathi, vice president for core OS development. UAC is a feature that crosses many aspects of the Windows architecture—security, accounts, user interface, design, and so on—we had several other members of the team contribute to the post.
We continue to value the discussion that the posts seem to inspire—we are betting (not literally of course) that this post will bring out comments from even the most reserved of our readers. Let’s keep the comments constructive and on-topic for this one. FWIW, the blogs.msdn.com server employs some throttles on comments that aim to reduce spam. We don’t control this and have all the “unmoderated” options checked. I can’t publish the spam protection rules since that sort of defeats the purpose (and I don’t know them). However, I apologize if your comment doesn’t make it through. --Steven........
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May 15, 2010
I am running Windows Home Premium 32-bit, which came preloaded with factory settings. Several weeks ago, after restarting my computer, I logged on to what appeared to be another account within the computer. This account had a similar desktop to my normal one, with a few folders missing, and its version of Firefox had none of my bookmarks or saved passwords. There were other differences too, such as it didn't remember windows live settings, differect text sizes, basic display settings etc. The background was the same.
Windows hadn't done this before, and after restarting my computer again it reverted to the normal account. Since then, each time I've turned my computer back on, it has logged onto this seperate user account first, before logging back onto my original account on following startups. I have looked for this answers to this problem, but because I could easily overcome it by restarting my computer, it didn't bother me much............
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Mar 21, 2009
Last night I noticed an icon (GetIE* now!) which would allow me to upgrade to Internet Explorer8 (so that I could supposedly experience better/ faster service when emailing etc.) However, after attempting to download, I rec'd an error mess'g contained inside of a box, indicating that the download attempt had failed & that I should access troubleshooting instructions from my computer. Basically one of the suggestions which was provided, indicated that I reset the computer to its "default" settings (and a link was even provided for me to click on, so that this process could be done AUTOMATICALLY).
However, even after trying the suggestion and reattempting to download Internet Explorer 8, I was still unsuccessful (I rec'd the same original error mess'g). So I gave up (because I din't have the patience anymore to try to figure it out) and figured that because the download never went through, everything with my computer was still the same. However, I rec'd a major shock this morning, when my 12 yr old son (who is the only other user on my computer), tried to log on...
basically, he immediately discovered after turning on the computer, that his user account, had suddenly become non-existant (only MY picture & username was visible. normally, HIS would appear adjacent to mine). My son ofcourse was in hysterics because now all of his photos, videos, etc. are all gone (and I feel so terrible about it). Is there ANY way that I can recover his deleted account? (P.S. I'm the administrator by the way)
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Mar 23, 2008
a user account has been deleted by mstake in vista home. Is there any way i can recover the data files associated with that user account? Im afraid no back up has been made!
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Apr 13, 2009
When I my son signs on it comes back with logging off and logs him off. I am setup as an administrator and can log on without any problems, my son's account is setup as standard user account with parental controls turn on. I have deleted his account and created a new one as a standard user, I tried turning off parental controls and I still get the same problem. The only way around this I have found so far is to make his account an administrator. Which is not something that I want to keep this way.
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Aug 14, 2008
I have a mates laptop, he gave it to me to fix as Vista has automatically created a new user account, his data is still there, only in another users account in the User folder, We dragged everything accross and reimported his emails, after rebooting, it has done it. How do I fix this without having to cut/paste everything again and how to i stop it from re-occuring?
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Feb 25, 2009
Anyhow, i have problems with UAC account setting: I can only disable UAC account via msconfig. If using Control Panel, I am not able to click any link that has the shield logo beside it. The window will appear and simply dissappear seconds after. By using the standard Administrator setting (not the true Administrator access): I cannot perform Windows Update. Error 8007005 , I cannot log-in to Windows Messenger. Same error message, I can connect to my wireless router, but the icon is showing as 'not connected', So far i found out that i cannot change the sound and mouse setting, I cannot uninstall program, i cannot change my anti-virus setting
Question 1:
- Are the above is what is supposed to happen when using standard Administrator setting?,
-If no: - Should I consider Vista repair or clean re-install?
-If yes: - I would like to have UAC security but with true Administrator access. Is this possible? If so, should I consider enable the built-in Administrator and set-up password?
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