BZim wrote:
> Here's what I did...
>
> I went into the control panel and clicked on "add or remove user account"
>
> Then I clicked on the icon for the "guest account" which was off.
>
> After this, when I would try to log in as guest, or switch to guest, vista
> threw all those error messages out - that it doesn't know how to open a
> bloody .exe file!
>
> I'm pretty sure that the microsoft programmers are still familiar with the
> .exe extension. I'm just trying to make the guest logon work for security
> purposes. I can turn it back off without any problem, but that is not
> what I was looking for.
Actually, for security purposes you want to leave the Guest user account
disabled. The Guest account is a system account meant to allow someone
without a regular user account on the computer to log in temporarily to do
some job. It is not meant for when you are feeling hospitable to visitors.
If you want to have a user account for friends/family, then make one called
"Visitors" or the like and make it a Standard account.
Since you didn't give any names of executables associated with the error
messages, I can only guess that whatever you have running at Startup
doesn't like the Guest account. But that's just a guess since I don't have
anything concrete to go on. It's a moot point anyway unless you get the
same issues under a new Standard user account. If you do, then certainly
post back but with the exact text of any error messages, including the
names of the problem executables.
Malke
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