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thank you. Yes, it seems these apps are a real pain on a desktop. I don't understand what MS is doing. I need to run a desktop for power for business programs. Does that mean the home PC as we know it, that could be used for business is essentially dead for MS purposes? Thanks for the...

Interesting. Yes, that works. So, clicking to open sends it to the video app, which I don't seem to have much control over. To change that I need to reassign the default video player to wmp or whatever I want. If you know, What is the video app -- and what is it used for?

Win8, running on desktop, no touchscreen. In Win8, I opened for the first time a video, with the video app. It opens in full, maximized screen. In Win7, for example, when opening a video (with WMV) the usual minimize, maximize/adjust size buttons appear in the upper right corner of the...

thanks, looks like a nice program to take ownership. Taking ownership still did not help. I give up on my original problem. I will do a reinstall of the OS and use the user name I want to always be there as the initial one. I am beginning to believe Win8 on a desktop and productivity are...

I got further-- this time my reboot acctually took me into the elevated Admin. I went to the cp and tried to remove the user Acct1 It did but did not remove the profile. I used a command prompt again to rd acct1 /s this time I got: "acct1\AppData\Roaming\Micros~\ Librar~1 - Access is denied...

how do I get to the elevated command? If I log in with acct2 then go cmd, then to c:\windows\system32 and enter net user administrator /active:yes I get "System error 5 Access is Denied." If I log in with acct2 then use the WindowsKey + X select, "command prompt (Admin)" --I suppose that is...

Is it possible to remove the initial admin account and user profile (not the built in elevated) that is setup when Win 8 1st starts? --After creating a 2nd admin account and logging into it I try to delete the initial one but a UAC comes up asking me to use the initial account to do the delete...