The user name of password is incorrect

battman · battman's Computer Specs

Appreciate the reply, but I have another really big problem now. First let me explain a little better. My origianal account was NAME1 which was an administrative account. I created a new account, NAME2 and made it an administrative account. I then changed NAME1 to a non-administrative account. It caused the problems first mentioned in my first post. So I changed NAME1 back to an administratve account and deleted NAME2. (I was trying to get away from using my computer all the time as an administrator) At this point, I thought I had it fixed. Now, when I turn the computer on, it comes up to this default KIOSK account, which I have no password for, and I cannot change and log in under NAME1. I don't know where KIOSK came from, and I basically at this point am locked out of the computer. If I ever get in again, then I WILL back up and restore to new. It won't accept NAME1 as a user.

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Originally Posted by TrainableMan

Whenever an account is created it requires a name. Based on that name, example Unknown, there are files and folders created under C:\USERS\Unknown. If that name is later changed to, for example Kiosk, the files and folders are NOT changed (And sometimes the old name appears in userid positions).

Normally the easiest thing to do is just rename it to it's original name & delete the account and then create a new one (Back up any data for that userid first if you want it).

One other issue of note is that there is an ADMIN account created (and hidden) by default in W7 so if you create a new account called ADMIN then the user file is named something else (C:\USERS\ADMIN1 ... I believe)

If this stuff gets all screwed up my suggestion would be to back up your data, reinstall the OS and then reinstall your programs and restore your data.

**TrainableMan** · TrainableMan's Computer Specs

How about Name2, have you tried logging in with that?

Anyway let's get you back in. Check out this POST.

Once you are back in, go to C:\users as an admin and see what all accounts are listed under there. There should be Admin (this is the systems administrator account), All Users (which are settings loaded for all users when, for example, a program asks if it should be installed for just you or for all users), default, Default User, & Public. Anything else are accounts that were created.

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