Locking With Several Users
Nov 10, 2008My 3 boys have a comp with Vista Home- none of their account are password protected- but have parental controls set up. Can I lock the computer from all their use using my admin passwod?
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X64 Locking Up
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-I am currently running a memory test to check for bad RAM but the test has been stuck at 21% on the first pass (10% overall) for about an hour and a half now ...
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Jun 8, 2008I Recently put together a new cpu, using Vista Home Premium 64-Bit. But for some reason the system keeps randomly locking up in 10-20 min intervals that I have to restart the system every time. Also when I try to install Vista 64 bit SP1 at the end of installation it tells me there is an internal error. Is this simply a case of bad Ram or something more?? Here is the system specs.
-AMD Phenom 9850 BLACK EDITION 2.5GHz Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Processor
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Jun 5, 2008After starting my computer, it runs for sereral minutes & then locks up. Yesterday, I tried to install Vista SP3, it failed to install. The message I got that it would revert the computer to where it was. I noticed all of my settings weren't the same as before. This was yerterday morning & the computer locked up for the first time last night. could this be the problem or could it possibly be something else? I,ve tried System Restore at startup & safe mode, but it won't stay running long enough.
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I have tried a few different things so far, I went to my screen saver settings, unchecked "On resume, display logon screen", then I tried going to the netplwiz program from the start menu, disabled "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.", hit apply, and since I don't have a password on my computer, and I hit OK. Vista even made me log off and back in to change this setting. And it is still locking the computer every time it goes into sleep or the laptop is closed.
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Apr 26, 2009Allow me to backtrack. A bit over a month ago, my video card started to show some pretty obvious signs of nearing demise. Graphical glitches in video games, random screen black-outs, and even more random total computer lock ups--but only when playing games. So, I replaced it. All was well. Until a couple of weeks ago. Now, all I'm getting is the lock-ups. These stopped when I first replaced the card, and only recently started happening. These locks are...different, though. For starters, they happen whether I'm playing a game or not. I don't have to be doing anything even remotely graphically intensive. Just staring at my desktop after startup will occasionally freeze. That said, it happens most often while I am playing games--but a counter to that would be that most of the time I'm on my computer, I'm doing that. So it's not exactly a reliable conclusion.
Something else strange about these freezes is that...they usually come to a slow halt, rather than slamming on the breaks. It's most noticeable when I'm typing. Letters will show up a split second late and within a few seconds, the computer is a brick until I manually reboot it. I've tried a few things. The video card is seated properly, the drivers are up to date. I cleaned out what little dust was in my computer. I defragmented. I tried to reinstall Vista. Tried to. I pop the disk in and it does its thing for what feels like forever, only to give me an error message and revert my system back to before it started. Honestly, I didn't write the error down though I know I should have. It was dawn, and I was too busy slamming my head against my desk.
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Aug 15, 2008My friend bought a new computer a few months ago that came with Vista installed. It also came with a bunch of other programs (bloatware) installed. I uninstalled all the stuff she didn't want, which included Norton AV, and replaced that particular program with AntiVir, which I have used and liked for years. She doesn't use the computer for much except playing pre-installed card games and reading email, and she didn't install anything except her Kodak printer. I installed the Comodo firewall, but that didn't work well for her, so when Zone Alarm released a Vista-compatible version, I uninstalled Comodo and installed ZA.
She began telling me the computer was freezing up from time to time. Then it began freezing up regularly. Now it is freezing up so badly that she can't even play her games. I reviewed the event log and found errors involving Windows Error Reporting service, and warnings about the printer. I turned off the error reporting and unplugged the printer. The problem persisted..............
Locking Down- All Kinds Of Problems
Jan 1, 2008I recently built a new computer and bought the Vista Ultimate upgrade for it. I'm running Vista Ultimate x64. My system is:Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz 2x Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI Asus P532N-SLI motherboard 4GB Corsair DDR2 800MHz RAM 2x 150gb WD SE16 SATA drives running in RAID 0 Striped Seemingly out of nowhere, system services have stopped working. I have all kinds of problems:Can't open control panel Can't access my computer 'properties' (where it would show all the specs, allow me to change product key, etc) Can't access the "Personalize" menu from my desktop The "Aero" theme is unavaliable Can't access Windows Update Can't access Windows Ultimate Extras and many other system operations are blocked Can't access my 'installed updates' to even attempt to rollback any updates that may have caused this. I know what comes to mind immediately: Invalid product key, so the system is locking down. The only problem is, my product key ISN'T invalid and I only encountered this problem recently.
Yes, Software Licensing service is running.All of my NVIDIA FORCEWARE drivers are up to date.I have all hotfixes that apply to my computer. I used System Restore to as far back as possible to no avail. I tried booting from the Windows DVD and repairing from there, with no luck. I do have the Vista SP1 RC installed, which could be the issue, but it was working fine with it installed for the past week. And I can't uninstall it even if I wanted to because I can't access the installed updates. Sorry for the long post, but hopefully you guys get the idea, or anyone who is willing to help anyway. I'd like to fix this problem WITHOUT having to format and do a clean install if possible, that's the main reason I'm posting here. Because I know I can fix it with a clean install.
Locking Computer After 1 Minute.
Aug 23, 2009just curious why it locks, and if it can be changed.
- If I turn on screensaver, and choose 'On resume, display logon screen'
- If I turn it off again, it locks my computer after the time set in screensaver. Even though it's turned off.
Slow LAN Speed, Computer Locking Up
Apr 5, 2008I've recentely bought a Qnap TS-109 NAS Sever. I am trying to copy all my bideo and music files over to it, however, as soon as I sart a transfer (either throught windows explorer or FTP) my computer slows to a crawl. Basically videos and music become juddery, my mouse and keyboard become very slow etc. Also I only seem to get about 3.5 MBPS when transfering files. Im on a 100mbps lan, my maths says that says thats a maximum of 12.5 MBPS, I know there are overheads but it should still be faster? Infact streming videos from the NAS server to my computer is worse that streaming them via my 54mbps wireless connection to my PS3. Is there something wrong with my setup? I am using two devolo highspeed home plugs between my pc and router, although my pc still says its connected at 100mbps and the homeplugs say they are linked at 100mbps.
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Sep 26, 2008My Vista home premium automatically locks after a short time. This is super annoying. I want to turn it off. My screen saver used to come on, but now it locks instead. I am using the Webshots screen saver, and it does not have anything on it for setting a password, so I cannot set that, as was suggested in another forum. Isn't there some way to simply tell windows to NOT automatically lock my computer, EVER?
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Jul 16, 2009the computer was always flying...in the last mointh it has been jamming up. locking up where I have to got to task manager and end task to get out. sometimes it look like it is locking up , but is only going SUPER slow, because I can still use the mouse as in sliding the page up or down. when it locks I cant use anything.
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Home Premium 64: Locking Up At Random Intervals
Oct 17, 2008Intel Q9400 Quad Core
EVGA 750i SLI Motherboard
2x XFX 8800GT Alpha Dog Videocards
8g OCZ Platinum Edition RAM
1 WD Velociraptor 300g drive (main)
1 WD Green 1 TB drive (storage)
Alpine Cooling Pro Freezer 7 (cpu heatsink)
Vista Home Premium 64 bit
The install of Vista has been nothing short of a nightmare..the OS keeps locking up at random intervals and reducing me to tears. I can't even seem to get the drivers installed without issues. I have tried to do most from safe mode to no avail. The next step was to remove all but 2 g of RAM and one of the video cards but things are still locking up for no apparant reason. Sometimes the install hung on "expanding Files" sometimes it would make it through that only to hang at the splash screen or once the os had booted up. We ten tested all the RAM with a ram test and everything was fine. Im at my wit's end here as I have pulled everything out to make it as bare bones as possible.
One thought from a friend was that the raid drivers may be causing an issue as this has been known to happen on intel mobos. Although I thought I had the Raid driver off anyway as Im not doing an array....yet.
Black Screen W/ Cursor When Locking Keyboard
May 6, 2009I have searched this newsgroup (as well as Google) and have found many items which are similar to this situation, but nothing quite exactly the same.
In my office I have 9 of the exact same computer (Dell Optiplex 755),all with the exact same software setup (Vista Enterprise 32bit).This issue is happening on only 1 of the computers (which leads me to believe that this is NOT a driver problem).
The user has her computer set to require a password when the screensaver is activated (normal windows screen saver, not some 3rd party program).
When the screen saver is activated, it locks the computer and the monitor goes black. All is well.
When she is ready to unlock it, she hits alt-cntl-del. 7 out of 8 times, the screen comes back to the logon screen where she can type in her password, and unlock the computer. But 1 time out of 8, the monitor will be totally black except for the arrow for the cursor.
She can move the mouse around fine (indicating the computer itself is ot toasterized).
Things we have tried:
* about 1/2 the time, unplugging the video plug from the computer and
plugging it back in will restore the picture (note that simply turning
the monitor off then back on *never* works).
* typing her password on the black screen will sometimes work (my guess
is that the prompt is in the right place)
Other than this issue, the computer works fine (meaning there aren't
other symptoms that indicate other problems).
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