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Old 06-08-2008, 10:40 AM
Firefly
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Hidden user account information

Help!
I have three user accounts (one is the Admin one). A second is for my
husband. But I seem to have acquired a Guest user account (may have done this
accidentally?). Anyhow, my antivirus keeps telling me that this Guest account
has a weak password. I want to change the password so followed the steps to
get into this user account but find that the only option open to me is to
turn it on (it shows as off at present).

What is making the information for me to reset (or even give it) the
password unavailable on this user account? And how can I access it?

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Old 06-08-2008, 11:00 AM
solon fox
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Re: Hidden user account information

On Jun 8, 1:36*pm, Firefly <Fire...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Help!
> I have three user accounts (one is the Admin one). A second is for my
> husband. But I seem to have acquired a Guest user account (may have done this
> accidentally?). Anyhow, my antivirus keeps telling me that this Guest account
> has a weak password. I want to change the password so followed the steps to
> get into this user account but find that the only option open to me is to
> turn it on (it shows as off at present).
>
> What is making the information for me to reset (or even give it) the
> password unavailable on this user account? And how can I access it?[/color]

Try this [url]http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/bfd7929e-6f19-409a-9505-9c9a1f3243eb1033.mspx#E1C[/url]

You can turn the account off, or just delete it.

-solon fox
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Old 06-08-2008, 11:40 AM
Ronnie Vernon MVP
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Re: Hidden user account information

The Guest account is Vista is turned off, and has no password, by default.
It sounds like your anti-virus program is being overly agressive when it
reports this.

See if there is an option in the anti-virus program to ignore this account.

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"Firefly" <Firefly@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E5D706A0-7125-4821-A6FB-0025126653F0@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Help!
> I have three user accounts (one is the Admin one). A second is for my
> husband. But I seem to have acquired a Guest user account (may have done
> this
> accidentally?). Anyhow, my antivirus keeps telling me that this Guest
> account
> has a weak password. I want to change the password so followed the steps
> to
> get into this user account but find that the only option open to me is to
> turn it on (it shows as off at present).
>
> What is making the information for me to reset (or even give it) the
> password unavailable on this user account? And how can I access it?
>[/color]

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