Vista - User Account Control Panel

my user account control panel decided to die i men is is blank. i cannot
change passwords or my picture. i was able to get past the password with the
"control userpasswords2" command is there any way to fix this or can i use a
differant command to change the user picture? any help would be apprechated

Yeah, user accounts are messed up for everyone in build 5472. You can do
some stuff in Local Users and Groups in Admin tools. But not much. I haven't
played around with it enough to know any specific workarounds. Hopefully
someone else has and can help you out.


"xanatos" <xanatos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> my user account control panel decided to die i men is is blank. i cannot
> change passwords or my picture. i was able to get past the password with
> the
> "control userpasswords2" command is there any way to fix this or can i use
> a
> differant command to change the user picture? any help would be
> apprechated

Yes I am having the same problem. I can not even add or delete or change any
permissions or pictures. Not even update my time...Hopefully someone can
help with this...!!!

"Alan Simpson" wrote:

> Yeah, user accounts are messed up for everyone in build 5472. You can do
> some stuff in Local Users and Groups in Admin tools. But not much. I haven't
> played around with it enough to know any specific workarounds. Hopefully
> someone else has and can help you out.
>
>
> "xanatos" <xanatos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:013E93CF-854F-4C1C-AE7F-CCAFE65AAA83@microsoft.com...
> > my user account control panel decided to die i men is is blank. i cannot
> > change passwords or my picture. i was able to get past the password with
> > the
> > "control userpasswords2" command is there any way to fix this or can i use
> > a
> > differant command to change the user picture? any help would be
> > apprechated
>

As with previous posts, again this is probably 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.

Also you can disable some of the little extras that you really dont need to
help with system performance. You can find info on this by clicking on the
link next to the system overall performance rating number and then the links
on how to improve your performance rating. And last but not least if you run
your vista cd... it has a repair option for just these types of problems...
it will just repair or attempt to repair whats not correct. Of course you
will probably have to do all the prompt disabling again but it may help. And
maybe set your pc to dump at startup. It kinda of sound like a memory
problem... but i really cant say for sure.

"xanatos" wrote:

> my user account control panel decided to die i men is is blank. i cannot
> change passwords or my picture. i was able to get past the password with the
> "control userpasswords2" command is there any way to fix this or can i use a
> differant command to change the user picture? any help would be apprechated

I am also having the same issue. It happened right after I shut down the
computer and booted it back up. I filed a bug report as I hope everyone
else did.

"Alec" <Alec@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Yes I am having the same problem. I can not even add or delete or change
> any
> permissions or pictures. Not even update my time...Hopefully someone can
> help with this...!!!
>
> "Alan Simpson" wrote:
>
>> Yeah, user accounts are messed up for everyone in build 5472. You can do
>> some stuff in Local Users and Groups in Admin tools. But not much. I
>> haven't
>> played around with it enough to know any specific workarounds. Hopefully
>> someone else has and can help you out.
>>
>>
>> "xanatos" <xanatos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:013E93CF-854F-4C1C-AE7F-CCAFE65AAA83@microsoft.com...
>> > my user account control panel decided to die i men is is blank. i
>> > cannot
>> > change passwords or my picture. i was able to get past the password
>> > with
>> > the
>> > "control userpasswords2" command is there any way to fix this or can i
>> > use
>> > a
>> > differant command to change the user picture? any help would be
>> > apprechated
>>