Vista - 5472 user accounts

Is it just me, or are user accounts totally messed up in 5472?

Can you be a little more specific on what is wrong with the user accounts?

"Alan Simpson" <Nospam@nothanks.com> wrote in message
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> Is it just me, or are user accounts totally messed up in 5472?
>

You'd notice right away if it were a common thing. New user accounts don't
get added. You can't change the picture on an account. When you try to
manage another account no accounts show up. Changing an account type doesn't
work. Just a whole bunch of screwy things. (Maybe it is just me).

"Jason" <Jay@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Can you be a little more specific on what is wrong with the user accounts?
>
> "Alan Simpson" <Nospam@nothanks.com> wrote in message
> news:8B06FA06-18C1-46A3-AC66-53D7E665CD61@microsoft.com...
>> Is it just me, or are user accounts totally messed up in 5472?
>>
>

I was surprised more people weren't asking the same question. I
installed 5472 on a Sony laptop and a Dell desktop, and the Control
Panel's User Accounts area doesn't work on either machine.

I can't create a User Account, manage existing ones, or even see a
list of existing accounts. I'm stuck with that darn yellow flower for
my User Account picture, with no way to change it.

The only way I can add User Accounts is to bypass Control Panel and
head for the Computer Management's "Local Users and Groups" area.

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:47:48 -0400, "Alan Simpson"
<Nospam@nothanks.com> wrote:

>You'd notice right away if it were a common thing. New user accounts don't
>get added. You can't change the picture on an account. When you try to
>manage another account no accounts show up. Changing an account type doesn't
>work. Just a whole bunch of screwy things. (Maybe it is just me).
>
>"Jason" <Jay@nowhere.com> wrote in message
>news:51658456-29BD-4ED8-89DA-5F5F55530923@microsoft.com...
>> Can you be a little more specific on what is wrong with the user accounts?
>>
>> "Alan Simpson" <Nospam@nothanks.com> wrote in message
>> news:8B06FA06-18C1-46A3-AC66-53D7E665CD61@microsoft.com...
>>> Is it just me, or are user accounts totally messed up in 5472?
>>>
>>

Thanks Andy, that's exactly what I'm getting. And I'm still getting the
weird thing where, on the intial istall, it finds everything in my network
perfectly, and everything works perfectly. But on subsequent boots it
magically loses everything except my shared Internet connection.

Oops, wait, I spoke too soon. Just looked at my network and it magically
rediscovered everything again. Go figure.


"Andy Rathbone" <nospam@fake.com> wrote in message
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>I was surprised more people weren't asking the same question. I
> installed 5472 on a Sony laptop and a Dell desktop, and the Control
> Panel's User Accounts area doesn't work on either machine.
>
> I can't create a User Account, manage existing ones, or even see a
> list of existing accounts. I'm stuck with that darn yellow flower for
> my User Account picture, with no way to change it.
>
> The only way I can add User Accounts is to bypass Control Panel and
> head for the Computer Management's "Local Users and Groups" area.
>
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:47:48 -0400, "Alan Simpson"
> <Nospam@nothanks.com> wrote:
>
>>You'd notice right away if it were a common thing. New user accounts don't
>>get added. You can't change the picture on an account. When you try to
>>manage another account no accounts show up. Changing an account type
>>doesn't
>>work. Just a whole bunch of screwy things. (Maybe it is just me).
>>
>>"Jason" <Jay@nowhere.com> wrote in message
>>news:51658456-29BD-4ED8-89DA-5F5F55530923@microsoft.com...
>>> Can you be a little more specific on what is wrong with the user
>>> accounts?
>>>
>>> "Alan Simpson" <Nospam@nothanks.com> wrote in message
>>> news:8B06FA06-18C1-46A3-AC66-53D7E665CD61@microsoft.com...
>>>> Is it just me, or are user accounts totally messed up in 5472?
>>>>
>>>

It's not just you. Immediately after install I set up a second account just
fine. After working with the system for awhile, personalizing and doing some
installs, I went back to add another account and was not able too.

"Alan Simpson" wrote:

> Is it just me, or are user accounts totally messed up in 5472?
> w

"Andy Rathbone" <nospam@fake.com> wrote in message
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yes, same issue here...

there is a workaround for the picture though:

if you go to CONTACTS and change the picture there it will also change it in
your windows account... (you need to select your .contact to do this)







>I was surprised more people weren't asking the same question. I
> installed 5472 on a Sony laptop and a Dell desktop, and the Control
> Panel's User Accounts area doesn't work on either machine.
>
> I can't create a User Account, manage existing ones, or even see a
> list of existing accounts. I'm stuck with that darn yellow flower for
> my User Account picture, with no way to change it.
>
> The only way I can add User Accounts is to bypass Control Panel and
> head for the Computer Management's "Local Users and Groups" area.
>
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:47:48 -0400, "Alan Simpson"
> <Nospam@nothanks.com> wrote:
>
>>You'd notice right away if it were a common thing. New user accounts don't
>>get added. You can't change the picture on an account. When you try to
>>manage another account no accounts show up. Changing an account type
>>doesn't
>>work. Just a whole bunch of screwy things. (Maybe it is just me).
>>
>>"Jason" <Jay@nowhere.com> wrote in message
>>news:51658456-29BD-4ED8-89DA-5F5F55530923@microsoft.com...
>>> Can you be a little more specific on what is wrong with the user
>>> accounts?
>>>
>>> "Alan Simpson" <Nospam@nothanks.com> wrote in message
>>> news:8B06FA06-18C1-46A3-AC66-53D7E665CD61@microsoft.com...
>>>> Is it just me, or are user accounts totally messed up in 5472?
>>>>
>>>

Yup, getting the same thing. Although it seems that it's only the case for
the 32-bit version. Everything works fine in teh 64-bit version.

"Larry Martin" wrote:

> It's not just you. Immediately after install I set up a second account just
> fine. After working with the system for awhile, personalizing and doing some
> installs, I went back to add another account and was not able too.
>
> "Alan Simpson" wrote:
>
> > Is it just me, or are user accounts totally messed up in 5472?
> > w

As with previous posts, again this is a local admin problem... Technically no
one is really a true administrator until all prompts and user securitys are
disabled in the security settings panel... (start/run/secpol.msc/local
policies/security options/scroll to bottom) and then going into control
panel and changing you account to an admistrator manually. I initially
thought i was an admin but your really only a local admin by default. Go
figure! Plus it gets rid of all those annoying pop up warnings.



"Alan Simpson" wrote:

> Is it just me, or are user accounts totally messed up in 5472?
> w