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[Buho]

Hi,

 

Windows 10 Pro 64 seems to love giving me a bad time managing my "account" privileges. Weird, because my "account" is the only one my desktop have.

 

This time it asks me for a user password to save a simple task in Task Manager. Since I create none in the OS installation, i leave the field blank, but an error message says either I can't do it or "a restriction policy was applied".

 

I am afraid of entering something and start a crazy chain reaction kafkanian-nightmarish-style in which my "account" belong to the Administrators Group, but since no account there is required to enter passwords (since they all must have "all access" privileges), Hal9000 then interprets my "account" is foreigner and it got to be banished from Shangri-la forever.

 

...This unusual behavior from Windows really drives me crazy.

 

What could be the problem?

 

Regards,

 

Pablo

[DevDream]

Have you tried creating a new user account or is a password required for this too?

[DevDream]

I'm also pretty sure the password is the password you used to register the email address that you used to register the user account on Windows

[Buho]

DevDream,

 

There is no new users, my user account is the only one which is not "system-native" (I mean it was created during installation, and it's the only one created so far).

 

I didn't registered a Windows account during installation. I skipped the user/email address step.

 

For the test, I created and deleted a new user account. No password required.

 

Cheers,

 

Pablo

[Ztruker]

Have you tried running Task Scheduler as Administrator?

 

Click on Start then scroll down to Windows Administrative Tools.

Right click in Task Scheduler, More ... then Run as Administrator.

[Buho]

Hi, Ztruker.

 

Actually I was (I am) running as administrator.

[DevDream]

DevDream,
 
There is no new users, my user account is the only one which is not "system-native" (I mean it was created during installation, and it's the only one created so far).
 
I didn't registered a Windows account during installation. I skipped the user/email address step.
 
For the test, I created and deleted a new user account. No password required.
 
Cheers,
 
Pablo

Perhaps you misunderstood - I suggested you create a new administrator user account and to create a password.

[Buho]

DevDream,

 

Why should I create a password? I don't use it.

 

For the test: I go to the Control Panel, User Accounts, create a new administrator account and attribute a password for it. Will it grant me all the Administrators' privileges? I ask you this because I tried something similar in another post (with Ztruker's help, by the way), and am not sure if doing it will grant the new account all the privileges the administrators have. I think it will not, as far as I remember, because we had to do some tweaks back then.

Edited by Buho, 15 September 2016 - 06:42 PM.

[DevDream]

I'd assume so, provided you ensure its an administrator account

[Buho]

For the test: I created a new account, made a password, logged in and tried the Task Scheduler. Perfect. I logged out, logged in with my regular non-password account and tried it again. Perfect.

 

I don't understand this OS.

[DevDream]

For the test: I created a new account, made a password, logged in and tried the Task Scheduler. Perfect. I logged out, logged in with my regular non-password account and tried it again. Perfect.

 

I don't understand this OS.

 

Sounds like your problem has been solved.

 

Yup, neither do I (understand this OS). I find it strange that a password is required for a task , when none is present. I agree that instructions should be made clear at the very least, directing the user to create  an administrator account with a password.

[Buho]

If the problem was solved by itself... It's Ok.

 

This OS really puzzles me.

 

My first install, from my erased hard-disc, created 2 accounts out of nowhere. I asked Ztruker's help by then, and was using only one acount in a system with 2. I erased the hd again, did a second install, everything fine. But the built-in games were absent (solitaire, mine field, purble place, nothing). Then a serious TILT made me erase everything to a third install. No games again. How can I bring them back?

[DevDream]

If the problem was solved by itself... It's Ok.

 

This OS really puzzles me.

 

My first install, from my erased hard-disc, created 2 accounts out of nowhere. I asked Ztruker's help by then, and was using only one acount in a system with 2. I erased the hd again, did a second install, everything fine. But the built-in games were absent (solitaire, mine field, purble place, nothing). Then a serious TILT made me erase everything to a third install. No games again. How can I bring them back?

 

do you mean you had to delete everything? If so, you can use file recovery software.

[Buho]

Hi, DevDream.

 

do you mean you had to delete everything? If so, you can use file recovery software.

 

I don't think I can use a file recovery app, because I erased the hd with Dban. I don't believe the app could find traces of old files there.

Edited by Buho, 19 October 2016 - 06:52 PM.

[mikicejames485]

check register email then login