Solved Password required but set up for password not required?

[UsernameIssues]

I just tried it on my nieces notebook I'm repairing and you know it does work I stand corrected, but I have run into machines that wanted that space.

On my computer leaving out the space work in cmd prompt but is needed when using Power Shell. I have no idea why that is. I have never known of sfc /scannow ever hurting a system. It is Windows 7 checking and repairing it own files if it can.

Excellent feedback - that is what I was wondering - what others have encountered.



Sorry TickledDog for the geeky detour that I took your thread down. Let us know if you get this issue fixed.

 

[Layback Bear]

SFC= System File Checker. Windows 7 is checking itself. It's own system files. Windows 7 does not like to hurt itself.

 

[TickledDog]

ROFL You all are great! I am anxious to check all of your suggestions. I will have to do that tomorrow because I am wiped out right now and need to take my sleepy pill. I will check in tomorrow after we try your suggestions.

 

[Anak]

Okay, see you tommorrow, nite nite.

 

[Britton30]

FYI, I also ran sfc/scannow without the space, didn't know ya could. There are a lot of commands that are sensitive to spaces and capitol letters.

 

[TickledDog]

So I can't run the scan remotely and will have to go over to Mom's to do that. sigh

 

[TickledDog]

I just tried it on my nieces notebook I'm repairing and you know it does work I stand corrected, but I have run into machines that wanted that space.

On my computer leaving out the space work in cmd prompt but is needed when using Power Shell. I have no idea why that is. I have never known of sfc /scannow ever hurting a system. It is Windows 7 checking and repairing it own files if it can.

Excellent feedback - that is what I was wondering - what others have encountered.



Sorry TickledDog for the geeky detour that I took your thread down. Let us know if you get this issue fixed.

It's very informative detour.

 

[TickledDog]

I did try the Norton ID Safe idea. It didn't work.

 

[UsernameIssues]

So I can't run the scan remotely and will have to go over to Mom's to do that. sigh

Once you are at your Mom's, you might consider installing TeamViewer on her computer and on your computer. That should let you do things like this scan via remote control. The folks at TeamViewer have made their app very secure, so it is safe to leave it running all of the time - and you can connect anytime (even via a smart phone). See this post for more info.

We don't mind helping you find this password problem, but it might take a while and we might never find what bit was twiddled. It might be easier for you to move the user of that computer to another user profile. You should not have to re-install most applications (probably none would need reinstalling). You would just copy the user specific start menu shortcuts, any documents, favorites and the user desktop items to the new profile. You can leave the old profile in place so that you can copy anything that you might have missed or you might need to go into that old profile from time to time if you hear that "things aren't working as they did".

Let us know which way you want to go.

 

[TickledDog]

I love Teamviewer! We've been using it for a while now. We are 45 minutes from Mom and Teamviewer has been a life saver.

So I'm working on creating a new user and have transferred everything. Now when turning the screen you still have to click on the user but it doesn't ask for the password. So maybe we're getting somewhere. But I just lost the connection. So Mom turned the power off, the power went out at her house or God is telling me it is time to go to bed.

I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow.

 

[UsernameIssues]

Get some rest - one of us should.

I typically install LogMeIn free as a second way in. That way, I can update TeamViewer while connected via LogMeIn. That said, TeamViewer version 8 does a better job of updating itself once you start the process while in a TeamViewer session.

 

[TickledDog]

Thank you. I will check that out.

 

[TickledDog]

I,m not sure how solved the problem is. But now when the screen comes back up Mom doesn't have to give her password, just click on her user. I guess you could say it is solved with a work around. Thank all of you soooo much for working with me to get this figured out. :x

 

[Anak]

Your welcome, could you elaborate on this workaround?

 

[TickledDog]

Your welcome, could you elaborate on this workaround?

It is the one Username suggested. I created a new standard user that is not password protected. Mom doesn't do any admin stuff on her computer so I kept the admin account password protected for me to work on new issues that come up.

 

[Anak]

Great, thank you for posting back! I may be using your tip on my XP box.

This could be due to an update, about three months ago I ran updates on both our machines and after I rebooted the XP it started asking for a log-in.

I should have staid on it to track it down, but got busy elsewhere, now it makes it just that harder to find it.

 

[TickledDog]

I always dread the Windows updates lol