Deleting a Windows 7 user folder removes all personalized settings and data in addition to any files or folders stored in folders specific to the user's account, such as the user's "My Documents" and ...

The User Account Control (UAC) tool was one of Vista's most vilified features -- popping up and nagging you whenever you wanted to install or update a program -- and many users will be surprised to ...

In this post, you will learn how to change the User Profile Name and the User Folder Name of your account or another user’s account in Windows 11 or Windows 10 using NETPLWIZ and REGEDIT. Changing a ...

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Microsoft made a few quiet but great changes to its kid-proofing SteadyState tool for Windows 7, changing the name to Guest Mode and trimming it into a dead-simple way to protect your PC from anyone's ...

User Account Control annoyed a lot of people in Vista, so Microsoft turned down the volume in Windows 7. But they’ve also opened up a massive security hole that leaves PCs exposed to ...

Even though the gaping breach in Windows 7‘s User Account Control feature seems, to all eyes, like a pretty easy fix, Microsoft appears to be in denial mode with MS ...

Migrating to Microsoft Windows 7 is becoming more urgent for the many UK companies that still run Windows XP. Support for the old operating system will come to a halt in April 2014, which means no ...

It’s common knowledge that if you decide to go all Windows 7 in Windows 10 and create a local user account, you get shut out of the Windows Store. You can open the ...