Re: Not all users appear in User Accounts

Daave wrote:
Anyway, why do you need to do this in the first place? What are you trying to do?

I had discovered that when I changed my password (this morning) that I'd managed to change it to a value I did not know. Luckily I discovered this before loggong off! Whilst I was still logged on, I un-encrypted all of my encrypted files, as I know I would lose the content otherwise. Then I needed to logon as a different administrator so I could zap Steve's password (I couldn't change my own password, as I didn't know the current value). So I listed the user accounts. I could find only "Steve", "Louise" and "Guest". Guest was not admin, and I didn't want to fiddle with Louise's userid. So I created a new Admin userid called TEMP (I have no plans to keep it). I logged on as TEMP, went into User Accounts, and could see, amongst others, my original "Administrator" userid. I zapped Steve's password and all was well. Apart from one niggle:

I'm puzzled why Steve (Admin) sees fewer entries in User Accounts than TEMP (Admin). It may well be something that I've done, but if so I don't recall what.

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Steve Swift
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