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Post by nonameneeded on Mar 24, 2018 12:50:16 GMT -8
In Windows 7 Home Premium (and newer Windows versions) there is no way to add users to groups or do anything more but to create a new user account and to change the password. At least nothing with a GUI. So I thought I could maybe use an older tool that came with Windows to achieve the same result. And I did actually find something that is quite a useful replacement for this missing funcationality. It's the user manager from Windows NT3.51 !! It lets you easily add users to groups or create new groups or change group settings etc. It also lets you set user rights for every user and/or group and account policies and so on. So most of the stuff (or even more) and most of the settings you could change with "local user and groups" in Pro versions of Windows and probably more than an average user will ever need. Not everything, though. Certain things that became only available in later versions of Windows can't be used. You also cannot set a specific path to a (newly created) user's profile folder, either because Windows won't let you or it just doesn't work because this tool is too old, I don't know. Other than that, everything works fine. Quite amazing actually, given that this thing is 23 years old. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work on Windows 10, only on Windows 7 and 8 UserManagerNT351.rar (425.1 KB)
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Post by anixx on Apr 5, 2018 1:33:05 GMT -8
Does not start on my Win8.1
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Post by nonameneeded on Apr 5, 2018 13:01:53 GMT -8
You have to run it as administrator. But actually it should also open without administrator rights (you just can't change any settings) so that's very strange....
Is there an error message?
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Post by anixx on Apr 6, 2018 2:40:21 GMT -8
Yes, access point is not found in some dll.
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Post by anixx on Apr 6, 2018 2:44:46 GMT -8
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Post by nonameneeded on Apr 7, 2018 19:46:40 GMT -8
Oh, that's too bad. I think it's the same error message you get on Windows 10 I really would have expected it to work on Windows 8.1, though. It does work on Windows 8 after all.
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Post by 6sicsix on Apr 10, 2018 2:42:51 GMT -8
Try this one, I made it about 7 years ago using a hex editor and some old guide on the internet. musrmgr_patched.7z (330.84 KB)
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Post by nonameneeded on Apr 10, 2018 10:55:45 GMT -8
It seems to work on Windows 7 but not on Windows 10. Which doesn't come as a surprise to me since not even Windows 8 had been released 7 years ago.
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Post by Jevil7452 on Jul 7, 2024 9:22:19 GMT -8
Bump, but I managed to get the program to show the main GUI on Windows 10, by pointing netapi32.dll to Windows 7's ntdll.dll. It's still unstable and will crash when creating a new user or viewing properties of an existing one. Attachments:musrmgr.7z (761.2 KB)
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Post by Jevil7452 on Jul 7, 2024 9:29:23 GMT -8
Another bump, the program becomes fully working if you use Windows 8's ntdll.dll Attachments:musrmgr.7z (824.98 KB)
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Post by The Jackal on Jul 8, 2024 14:45:59 GMT -8
Another bump, the program becomes fully working if you use Windows 8's ntdll.dll Nice! Very nice! Kudos.
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