user accounts?

Question

How can i find out if someone has sceretly opened another account useing an alternate e-mail adress? others are useing my computer, I know their user names and passwords, but when i open the cookie files they are showing that no sites have been visited, except the same five that was there days ago. i know that it is possible to have another account under a different e-mail adress, and the files will only show up under the new account files. there has to be another secret account, nothing has changed in the cookie files in days, how can i find out if there is another account, and if so; how do i access it? By the way this computer is mine, i have the master password to lock, and unlock everything dont know if that is helpful.

this other person has a guest account, on my computer, i feel that they have created another ALTERNATE e-mail account to keep me from seeing what they are up to. I know their current password to access their guest e-mail account.

Answer 1

If somebody else is accessing your account, they would have to know your password or your birthday and the corresponding answer to security questions in order to make some changes on your account. You won't know if they are probably accessing your account, say in Yahoo, for example, by just looking at the cookie files because for all you know, they have cleared the cache and cookies prior to logging out. If you are in doubt that somebody is accessing your account, change your password to a different one so as not to compromise the security of your account. No matter what you do, you have no right still to access if there is another account created even if you are the owner of the computer because for all you know, those people using your computer might just be logging on their own account and not yours, so don't worry too much. Goodluck!

Answer 2

It's your computer and your IP address zipping around out there...

I'm not too clear on what you're asking, but I think I have an idea
I'm sure you've tried these, but here's some ideas:

Control panel-user accounts. Check the access settings on the other users...

My Computer - Disk C: - (right click -view - details...stop and check dates modified) Documents and Settings... everybodys stuff will be here. You can look around in here, but be careful about opening documents or other personal looking items.

Other places to check would be the Program Files (Disk C:) and again look for dates.

Your browser history (ctrl + H) could also hold clues. If you're really concerned, log in to Windows under their ID, and check the history of the browser while under their ID.

Also, as you cruise through various folders, on the folder meeu bar, click on Tools - Folder Options, and make sure the bullet for Show Hidden Files is checked. Somone smart can make any folder invisible...

Let's see, what else... Recycle Bin (is it empty?), Start - Documents (recent ones on the list yours?);

Finally, and you may want to try this first, your computer archives copies, not just cookies, of every part of every webpage visited until they're removed with the Tools option in the browser. In the Docs and Settings section I mentioned earlier, you can find a hidden folder Called Temporary Internet Files inside another hidden folder called Local Settings.

I teach K-5 computers and have to had utitlize various techniques to "backtrack", although we have software in place that logs EVERYTHING.

Don't guilt trip. It's your computer. And it probably wouldn't hurt to ask your other users what's up.

Answer 3

you're practically properly suited. you may create an account talked approximately as Anthony with Admin privileges, log into the Anthony account, after which you may in basic terms delete the 'ken' account from in the Anthony account. you ought to probably lose something you put in into the 'ken' account, yet that relies upon on the type you put in each little thing and the applying itself. At maximum you may ought to reinstall issues into the 'Anthony' account. @Edit: No, deleting 'ken' would not have any unfavorable result on your pc.