User Accounts

[Jordan]

My mom is having this problem accessing user accounts in control panel, =
whenever she clicks on it it processes it and nothing happens
ive had this problem before and it was because of a virus, i found a =
loophole and was able to run those programs i was unable to by running =
as a different user - but there isnt any other users on her computer
ive checked for viruses and spyware using nav 2003 and adaware 6.0 and =
also did an eye scan on my own thru the potential dangered folders like =
system32
she wants to put a password on her account so my brother cant get onto =
the comuter and play games... altho im kinda stumped because i cant seem =
to figure out why she cant get into user accounts, all the help ive been =
able to find is "to get into user accounts go to start -> control panel =
-> and double click user accounts"...=20
typical microsoft help

anyways if someone has an answer or can figure out why i cant acces user =
accounts or even the process that runs user accounts (something i could =
find if i was able to property the damn thing) that would be of much help

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Jordan wrote:
> My mom is having this problem accessing user accounts in control
> panel, whenever she clicks on it it processes it and nothing happens
> ive had this problem before and it was because of a virus, i found a
> loophole and was able to run those programs i was unable to by
> running as a different user - but there isnt any other users on her
> computer
> ive checked for viruses and spyware using nav 2003 and adaware 6.0
> and also did an eye scan on my own thru the potential dangered
> folders like system32
> she wants to put a password on her account so my brother cant get
> onto the comuter and play games... altho im kinda stumped because i
> cant seem to figure out why she cant get into user accounts, all the
> help ive been able to find is "to get into user accounts go to start
> -> control panel -> and double click user accounts"...
> typical microsoft help
>
> anyways if someone has an answer or can figure out why i cant acces
> user accounts or even the process that runs user accounts (something
> i could find if i was able to property the damn thing) that would be
> of much help

Go to Start/Run and type: control userpasswords2 and press OK. Does
this open the old style user accounts dialog?

If this doesn't work, try using the System Restore utility to go back to a
point before the problem appeared.

--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP-Windows Shell/User

Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
http://www.dts-l.org
http://www.mvps.org

>-----Original Message-----
>Jordan wrote:
>> My mom is having this problem accessing user accounts in control
>> panel, whenever she clicks on it it processes it and nothing happens
>> ive had this problem before and it was because of a virus, i found a
>> loophole and was able to run those programs i was unable to by
>> running as a different user - but there isnt any other users on her
>> computer
>> ive checked for viruses and spyware using nav 2003 and adaware 6.0
>> and also did an eye scan on my own thru the potential dangered
>> folders like system32
>> she wants to put a password on her account so my brother cant get
>> onto the comuter and play games... altho im kinda stumped because i
>> cant seem to figure out why she cant get into user accounts, all the
>> help ive been able to find is "to get into user accounts go to start
>> -> control panel -> and double click user accounts"...
>> typical microsoft help
>>
>> anyways if someone has an answer or can figure out why i cant acces
>> user accounts or even the process that runs user accounts (something
>> i could find if i was able to property the damn thing) that would be
>> of much help
>
>Go to Start/Run and type: control userpasswords2 and press OK. =
Does
>this open the old style user accounts dialog?
>
>If this doesn't work, try using the System Restore utility to go back =
to a
>point before the problem appeared.
>
>--=20
>Ronnie Vernon
>Microsoft MVP-Windows Shell/User
>
>Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
>http://www.dts-l.org
>http://www.mvps.org
>
>

Thanks for the speedy reply, she wants to know how to change "how users =
log on" now... aka pressing cntrl+alt+del =3D that popup screen with =
change password lock task manager cancel and shutdown

[Chad Harris]

> wrote in message
...

>-----Original Message-----
>Jordan wrote:
>> My mom is having this problem accessing user accounts in control
>> panel, whenever she clicks on it it processes it and nothing happens
>> ive had this problem before and it was because of a virus, i found a
>> loophole and was able to run those programs i was unable to by
>> running as a different user - but there isnt any other users on her
>> computer
>> ive checked for viruses and spyware using nav 2003 and adaware 6.0
>> and also did an eye scan on my own thru the potential dangered
>> folders like system32
>> she wants to put a password on her account so my brother cant get
>> onto the comuter and play games... altho im kinda stumped because i
>> cant seem to figure out why she cant get into user accounts, all the
>> help ive been able to find is "to get into user accounts go to start
>> -> control panel -> and double click user accounts"...
>> typical microsoft help
>>
>> anyways if someone has an answer or can figure out why i cant acces
>> user accounts or even the process that runs user accounts (something
>> i could find if i was able to property the damn thing) that would be
>> of much help
>
>Go to Start/Run and type: control userpasswords2 and press OK. Does
>this open the old style user accounts dialog?
>
>If this doesn't work, try using the System Restore utility to go back to a
>point before the problem appeared.
>
>--
>Ronnie Vernon
>Microsoft MVP-Windows Shell/User
>
>Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
>http://www.dts-l.org
>http://www.mvps.org
>
>

Thanks for the speedy reply, she wants to know how to change "how users log
on" now... aka pressing cntrl+alt+del = that popup screen with change
password lock task manager cancel and shutdown
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Not sure exactly what's meant "aka...[referencing the Task Manager--if
that's what is meant by "=that popup screen".

This may help:

Kelly's Reference on User Profiles:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_logon.htm
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How To: Automatically Log Onto a User Account in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q282/8/66.asp&NoWebContent=1
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How to: Change and Configure User Accounts in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q279/7/83.asp&NoWebContent=1
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How To: Check User Profiles on a Windows XP Computer

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;294887&Product=winxp
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Understanding User Profiles

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/professional/help/default.asp?url=/WINDOWS2000/en/professional/help/userprofile_overview.htm

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How To Create a Custom Default User Profile

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319974&Product=winxp