Questions tagged [user-accounts]
An account on a computer system that allows access to specific system functions, and often, data.
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Where to list technical Windows users such as SYSTEM, DWM-1, UMFD-0, etc?
Task manager displays "SYSTEM", "DWM-1", "UMFD-0" in "User" column for a lot of programs running.
I'd want to know where I can see the list of all these users.
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How to set screen time limits on myself on Windows 10 without using 3rd party software?
I set up my PC with my own account, I however am developing a Habit of binge watching and getting no work done. I am setting up screen time for myself using "Microsoft family safety."
The ...
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How can I have a DPAPI (Data Protection API) migration from a Windows 7 to Windows 10 machine?
I'm trying to import some DPAPI (Data Protection API) master keys from %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Protect\{SID} on a Windows 7 system to a Windows 10.
From what I've read it should work but every time I try ...
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How do you change the name of a Windows 11 user folder safely?
My user folder has a space in it (C:\Users[my username with a space in it]). This is a problem because an application I need for one of my classes cannot handle this. How can I change the name of the ...
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Restrict a Local Windows 10/11 user from using RDP FROM its localhost
I'm trying to find out what the easiest way is to restrict a newly created, local, non-administrative user on a Windows 10/11 device from initiating RDP connections from that device, all without ...
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Laptop is very slow. After restart, it shows "The User Profile Service service failed the sign-in. User profile can not be loaded". How do I fix this?
System settings:
Prozessor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4210M CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz
Installierter RAM 8,00 GB
Speicher 238 GB SSD Samsung SSD 850 PRO 256GB, 238 GB SSD Crucial_CT256MX100SSD1
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Unicode rendering issue involving Devnagari script incompatibility within the Microsoft account dashboard interface
When I log into my Microsoft account, my account dashboard is not downloaded. In my opinion, the reason is the addition of indian language script(Devnagari script) to my account name. In outlook, one ...
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LibreOffice not working on standard Windows account, notwithstanding changing permissions
I don't know my way around windows at all these days, been on Linux for a decade. However my wife insists on using it, currently Windows 24H2 26100.6584. My general computer knowledge means I'm IT ...
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How can I separate two computers that are behaving like Siamese twins?
How can I separate two computers that are behaving like Siamese twins?
I bought a new computer, and was trying to set it up, but at that moment I had forgotten my Microsoft password, and because I was ...
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How to recreate a user's home directory after it was accidentally deleted?
I (accidentally, indirectly) ran rm -rf /home/myuser on an ubuntu box. Sucks, but I didn't have anything in there that wasn't already pushed to git.
I've copied my base files from /etc/skel/*, but I ...
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Removing an unused Virtual Service Account profile
I created a service with the command:
> sc create MyService binPath= '"C:\Path\To\Command.exe"' obj= 'NT SERVICE\MyService'
> sc start MyService
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> sc stop MyService
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Service user tries to logon to two separate ADs with the same sub-domain
we use ADAudit Plus (ADAP) to monitor two domains, localnet.ABC.com and localnet.XYZ.com. The ADAP-Server runs in the ABC-domain. The service user of domain XYZ, which monitors the XYZ-domain ...
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How to delete a Cygwin account?
I deleted a user account from Windows 11, but there is a folder tree under Cygwin's /home folder.
Nothing comes up after googling how to delete an account in Cygwin, but Linux uses userdel. A Cygwin ...
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How to replace WMIC to change the password expires setting since WMIC is deprecated on Windows 11?
In a batch script, I am using WMIC to disable the fact that a specific account can have his password expires, as this account is used to run services.
I am using this command :
WMIC USERACCOUNT WHERE &...
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How to use centralized users for Windows without centralizied Group Policy?
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We wish to use centralized user management (through something like LDAPS, AD, ...) without allowing the centralized management system to change the machine settings such as group policy.
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