User Account In Vista 32 Bit Dell XPS 1530
Nov 11, 2009
I have Dell XPS 1530 with Windows Vista 32 bit Home premium. Recently Dell Japan replaced its hard drive and during windows installation they named User account other than what I had asked. When I asked them how to change it because I do not like that. I am told only Re-installation of windows can solve that.(that is very lengthy process) But after visiting your forum I come to understand that it is possible to create new account and delete other User Account - Create After reading that I contacted Dell Japan and they took 45 minutes and created new user account but when I use newly created account some of desktop icon disappear and they told me that I have to re-install those software whose Icon I can not see and also have to re-write information in windows e-mail account. How to delete my First(wrongly created by Dell) user account and retain new user account? Is there any way I do not install all other software once again which I had been using from first created user account? if not then what to do?
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May 27, 2010
A friend of mine has been locked out of his Dell laptop and cannot find the password for the single account that it has. The laptop has Vista Ultimate installed on it and I am unable to activate the hidden administrator's account to get into Vista. Other investigations using other software shows only 2 accounts, Administrator and Guest but not the actual user single account that shows up onto the login screen. ( I have managed to blank out the Administrator and Guest passwords ) I have a standard Vista Recovery Disk , but I am unable to either repair or re-install Vista from the Dell hidden partition , and the only alternative is to install a unused retail version of Vista Home Premium that my friend has been given awhile ago. I have 2 questions
1) Is the Vista Ultimate user account passwords located in a different place as compared to other versions of Vista?
2) if I install this retail version of Home Premium on the Dell laptop, will I have problems with the propriety hardware that is on the Dell laptop and would I need to find all the Dell drivers for the laptop?
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Mar 3, 2009
When using XP I could switch identities checking messages for myself and husband. Now we have separate user accounts in Vista but how do we switch between them?
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Apr 14, 2008
I'm running Vista Ultimate on my present computer, have full installation dvd. I'm buying a new Dell computer that comes with Vista Basic installed. Can I move Vista Basic from the Dell computer to my old computer and install my Ultimate on the Dell?
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Mar 23, 2008
How can you turn off the annoying User Account Control feature without Vista telling that you have turned it off, and having an icon in the system tray telling you that it is turned off?
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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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Feb 13, 2008
My Dell XPS with Windows Vista constantly locks up. I thought maybe it was McAfee causing the problem so I uninstalled it and installed Norton. The problem is still occuring. I even upgraded the ram from 2 gb to 4. I turned off the Gadgets on the sidebar, run defrag, and reboot. It doesn't seem to matter what I'm doing, whether I'm in Windows Mail, using IE7 or in a program. I've read many posts regarding this but haven't found a resolution to my problem. If anyone has some new advice, I would love to hear it.
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Jun 6, 2009
i have a Dell 1520 latop with OEM vista home, less than 3 years old and with dell getting ready to start selling laptops with windows 7. i am wondering will dell offer a upgrade to my vista OS?
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May 18, 2009
I just got a dell 730x with vista so so lost....but I got it to turn on! how do I know what version and what "type" of vista I have? so, at least I can speak correctly about what I have installed...
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Aug 7, 2009
So who brokered that deal? I have a Studio Laptop I was going to reinstall the OS but can't because I have to wait for the owner to get me the Dell DVDs. So how does that work? Are the days of clean installations of Windows over?
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May 1, 2008
i have been able to locate wireless networks and connect to unsecured ones, but i have been unable to connect ot my WPA-PSK wireless lan network. I tried removing the security, and this works, but as soon as i re-enable the security, it's not having it. i've tried using different forms of encryption but still no luck.
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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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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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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.
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