XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: gordonbparker@yahoo.com   
      
   On 08/01/11 22:30, Gordon wrote:   
   > This is typical of posts that are becoming more frequent in the MS   
   > Answers forum.   
   >   
   > "Something strange has occurred with my Windows 7. We had two user   
   > accounts on there: mine (which was also the Admin account) and my   
   > wife's. Neither of these accounts had a password. (Perhaps not a good   
   > idea, but nobody else uses our computer.)   
   >   
   > Last night, my wife's account wasn't showing up on the opening sign-in   
   > screen, but there was a blank profile called "Other User". When I logged   
   > onto that and entered my wife's user account, it let us log in.   
   >   
   > I went into Users to see if I could see what was going on, and I'm not   
   > sure how it happened, but the next thing I knew, without entering   
   > anything at all, it was saying that there was a password on my Admin   
   > account.   
   >   
   > So I logged back out to the use login screen and now my wife's account   
   > shows up, and there's only the blank "Other User" profile showing up for   
   > me. If I log into it and enter my username, it prompts for a password -   
   > a password which I never created and thus do not know. So now I'm locked   
   > out of the Admin account for my computer.   
   >   
   > Is there anything I can do?"   
   >   
   > Why do people put up with paying for this unfinished CRAP?   
      
   And I don't see ANY of our resident Wintrolls helping with ANY of these   
   windows problems....   
      
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