I got a new laptop and gave my dad my old one but he never changed the user so now he logs in using my password on my user. The problem is any changes I make to my laptop reflect on to his. I'd just like to peacefully change my wallpaper. Both laptops run windows 10. Thank you in advance for your help.
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I was happily using local account on my Windows 8/8.1 machine. Was. Today I wanted to install some app from Windows Store. I wanted to assess some UX scenario in it. To do so I had to sign in using my Microsoft account. So I did. Not only I signed into Windows Store, but Windows also quickly connected my local account with Microsoft's one and somehow changing it for an online one. I've realised that when I restarted my machine and I had to logon using my Microsoft account credentials rather than my previous local ones. What I tried I found on the net, that I can disconnect my Microsoft account from my user account. I followed these simple steps:  Open Charms &gt; Settings &gt; Change PC Settings &gt; Accounts &gt; Your account &gt; Disconnect Windows asked me for my current Microsoft account password (for obvious reasons) and I clicked Next It then asked me to provide local account credentials that I want to use from now on  My username was already pre-filled with my previous name (I'm not sure whether this has to do with previous local account username as it's the same as Display name on my Windows account). So I entered my local account password twice and my password hint as required and clicked Next. Error Windows is already using that name. Please enter a different user name.  I've read on the net that if I did provide a different user name I'd end up with a new local account which is not what I want here as I don't want to loose all my account related data. How should I revert to my local account without risking my profile data? Should I try providing a new username and verify whether my old account's data is persisted or is that too much risk and I should take some other steps?
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This has been bothering me very much. i have memory that Ubuntu 12.04 had this configuration? am i wrong? finally, is it possible for the login screen to have different wallpaper from the desktop? is this possible in Ubuntu 15.04? i would appreciate a stable understandable response. thanks :)  -ben
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Is there any way to add, remove, or modify user accounts via the command line? I'm not talking about an account for a system process or daemon, I mean is there any way to add a user account, change, user real names, icons, FileVault protection, Admin/normal/limited user status, and basically do everything else that can be done in the System Preferences Users preference pane, but via some command line utility?
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I disabled the Remove Change Password but the change password option is still not showing with Ctrl-Alt-Del.  How do I get it back?   I need it badly because there is a domain where I connect only via VPN and have no access to any servers except the DCs.   (Why must Microsoft make things more difficult instead of easier?)    My policy setting for this item is:
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I can only see my desktop pic upon login and that is because unity plugin isn't enabled.  I tried ccsm, but there is no way for me to apply changes so the unity plugin remains disabled. I also can't close windows because the bar at the top of each window is not there.
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I installed Windows 8 on my mother's notebook, she typed a new password for her and she lost it, she can't remember what she typed and no notes about it were made(my fault), now her Windows 8 installation just keep locked on logon/password screen.   How can I change the Windows 8 password for her account, reset the password or recovery the password without needing to reinstall entire Windows 8?   Could I just create another new account on the same computer from the safe mode or something like this?  PS: No live account was related to her Windows 8 account as far no account was registered on Windows 8 Store.
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I cleared all my browser data and visited  and it logged me back in. How?  This happens on Chrome on OS X and Windows 7.  Surely the security concerns outweigh the benefits to the user. What if a family member or friend wants to use my machine? I wouldn't want them logged in as me.  Update  My mistake, I should have said data &#8212; all those checkboxes clicked/checked. I completely cleared everything, yet it still logs me back in.  Update 2  Here's a video to prove it:
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Before you mark the question as a duplicate, I read all of the posts regarding this, but nothing helped me. I'd like to change the background picture of the lock screen.    I changed the ubuntu.css and gdm3.css accordingly to   #lockDialogGroup {   background: #000000 url(file:///usr/share/wallpapers/minimalistic-gray_00323985.jpg);   background-repeat: no-repeat;   background-size: cover;   background-position: center; }   Which results in a change of the Background of the log in screen, not the lock screen. When I press super + L the screen containing time has the correct background. When I swipe it up to tipe in my password, the purple Ubuntu screen still appears. If I click to change the user, the log in screen appears with the right background. I have the same background picture enabled in gnome tweaks for desktop background and lock screen.   I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 GNOME on a TuXedo Laptop. And I use Communitheme - maybe thats the problem?  Any ideas why it doesn't work? (I rebooted multiple times, so that's not the problem.)  EDIT: The output of sudo nano /usr/share/gnome-shell/modes/ubuntu.json is  {     "parentMode": "user",     "stylesheetName": "ubuntu.css",     "enabledExtensions": ["ubuntu-dock@ubuntu.com", "ubuntu-appindicators@ubuntu.com"] }
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The Local Users and Groups Manager doesn't like running on the Home versions of Windows...    Is there an alternative program which can provide the same amount of flexibility for editing users/groups?  (Control UserPasswords2 doesn't have nearly as much flexibility, so that doesn't count.)
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I recently setup a new computer for my parents with windows 10 home. I made two local accounts for them - no microsoft accounts. I also would like to keep them without a password. Problem is now that windows automatically signs in with the last used account. No lock/login screen.  I tried a number of answers from similar questions here but none worked. Since it's a home version there are no group policies and the method using task scheduler does not work because accounts with no password are not allowed to create such tasks.  Are there other options to force windows to show a user list on startup without setting passwords for the accounts?
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I'm not sure how this machine was setup, but I do have control over it now as a local admin.  I need to enable fast user switching, but the option is greyed out along with some others. This is after unlocking the changes padlock.    Is there anything I can do to reenable these options?
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I use Ubuntu 18.04.  When i boot up the system and login screen shows up, it loads some settings that i don't like and would like to change them.Namely   keyboard layout mouse sensitivity screen resolution   However at the login screen i don't have any option to change settings. And as soon as i login to an account, i can only change settings for that account and the login screen remains unchanged.  Obviously the settings has to be loaded from somwhere. Is there some hidden user that stores these settings? Or is it stored under root? Or any other special configuration file?  I tried to google this problem, but such question does not appear anywhere.  So can you please help me to change those settings for the login screen?
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How to change the desktop wallpaper to a photo of my own selection in Ubuntu 18.04? I'm not interested in downloading some wallpaper changer application, nor am I interested in coding something up. There has to be an easy way to select a photo as a custom wallpaper in Ubuntu 18.04.
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If I manually change the background image in the registry, how can I force it to refresh without logging off?  I know that  does it, but I would like to keep things simple and not use any software.
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I setup my Windows 7 to automatically log into my account at home.  I have a password set so that I can access it remotely.  It seems like this was a feature in control panel somewhere, but now I can't find it to turn if off.  I know I used to use Tweak UI in older versions of windows to do this, and before that I could edit the registry . . . but it appears they changed it for Windows 7
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I need to amend the default user account during deployment of Windows 7. Having read the following MS article:  I have a few questions.  The article suggests that the amendments must be made under the built in local administrator account. Does this have to be the built in Admin account? or can the changes be made under the context of another local account within the local administrators group. The customer does not wish to enable the the built in admin account.  Is the profile copied from the account that is currently logged in when the specialise path is initiated?   The article also says to remove all existing local accounts. I assume this is because the amendments to the default profile will not apply to these accounts. Basically, the image has some existing local profiles that must remain. The default settings do not need to be applied to these accounts.   I would test this out but I currently do not have access to my test environment unfortunately.   Any guidance is greatly appreciated.   Thanks in advance.
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Is it possible to see the login history, i mean to see if someone has used the computer in my absence and when he used it . if it is possible, where can i get the log ? if not, is there a program that logs all the logins and their time ?