When you use the Restore feature....if you normally use a password to enter Win 7...the Restore feature will ask for that password after it's restored your system to the date that you selected. It would be the same act if you were just booting up on a regular day. Their warning is for people who change their passwords on a regular basis.

Example...Monday you had one password. On Wednesday you changed it. On Thursday...you needed to use the restore feature and you opted to restore your system back to Monday. Now! When the restore has been completed...the password screen will appear. In order to get into your system...you'll need to enter the password that you had on Monday. NOT the password you had on Wednesday and Thursday.

However...seeing as you don't use passwords, Urlee...you needn't worry about any of this. After your system has been restored...it will return you to your regular entrance screen/page and all should be well.

Now...a word of advice. Even though you aren't using a password now...you may opt to do so at some future date. Go into the Control Panel>User Accounts and >Create a Password Disk. You'll never be sorry that you've done this little chore. I've had computers for eons. Always created this disk. Never needed it until a few months ago...and it literally [almost] saved my life. Takes very little time to do and you can use a memory stick if you prefer it over a disk. I did.

Anne

Bless you anne,

So, if I have never created a password when I got this computer, then I can just go ahead and use the Restore without worry.
In other words, I am the one who puts a password on this computer and none came from the factory?

If I create a password, does that mean I have to enter it each time I boot up? What happened to make you need yours? Technology is running away from me.

Yes...if you've never created a password...you're good to go.

Yes...you're the one who would create a password.

Yes...if you do create a password...you'll have to enter it every time you boot up.

Actually, Urlee...I'm a security freak. LOL I used to do a lot of business on my system and decided I wanted to protect it as much as possible from prying eyes...both the physical and the virtual variety....even though I'm the only one who uses this system. I have my mail accounts pass-worded as well. But...some believe it's not necessary and for those who subscribe to that way of thinking...that's fine for them. If my business hadn't involved $$$ and original authorship, I wouldn't have been so concerned either. I haven't always had a password. It's just been in the last few years.

You're not alone in your comment about technology running away with you. You have a lot of company these days. ;-) But the better informed we become about our own systems...the easier it gets. Every time I've had to rescue myself from some dumb deed I've done...always in the middle of the night...I've learned a little more. I figure...at the rate I'm going...I'll be a computer genius before I die. :-)

Enjoy your new system. I have an Acer. They're good, reliable systems.

Anne

THANK you so much for your superb replies here in "my kind of language!"

My first Acer Desktop and am finding it's not working well. The weather Gadget doesn't work and I am having trouble with W7LM . It keeps going Offline before it can receive mail.

I was wondering if the last updates may have made it do that. That is why I wanted to try the Restore.

Urlee, my weather gadget stopped working too and when I went to MS to download it for reinstallation, I discovered that 'Gadgets' had been discontinued for security reasons. I really miss it and now have to look at my phone to see the temp out there.

You're very welcome, Urlee. I know the frustration of trying to get a new system to do exactly what you want it to do.

The February updates were OK. It was the January updates that wreaked havoc with our systems. But that being said...most of the troublesome updates were either removed by MS or corrected. That still doesn't remove the possibility of problems but at this point...I doubt it.

MS did away with Gadgets some time ago. I think over three/four years ago. After offering them...they decided they only gave another point of entry for beasties...so they discontinued them. I'm surprised you found the weather gadget. Is it one that you transferred from you old system?
Better you should go into your local TV weather site and download a link to their site for your weather. Or link to the National Weather Service...as I do. They're much better than the gadget ever was as far as predictability and reliability are concerned. Enter you zip code in the appropriate box and you'll find daily/weekly forecasts for your area as well as all other weather info.

http://forecast.weather.gov

I don't use Win Live at all...for anything. I'm a MS Office "girl" and purchased Office 2010 after 2003 reached the point that it wasn't being supported. I use Outlook for my mail program and recommend it whenever I'm asked. I believe that MS offers a free version of Outlook that you might want to take a look at. I don't know all the particulars about it but I'm sure you can find it if you check the MS download site.

Beyond that...I don't think your problems are with Acer. I think they're with MS Win7...and once you get over a few bumps in the road setting up your system just the way you want it...you'll be fine. It's just the initial shock of having to get used to new "things". That's why I always hang onto whatever version of Win I'm working with until the very last breath of air remains in the program. :-) I went kicking and screaming from XP 2 directly to Win 7 a few years ago...hating every minute of the acclimation period. But now I think it's the best program MS has offered since XP 2 and I'll probably put up an equal fuss when I have to go to Win 10. :-)

Anne

You may be sorry if one day if it won't accept the password you made. I was locked out of mine one time and I used the correct password. HP would not help me either. No one uses this PC but me so I do not need one. I can't direct you to the section where a password belongs, but look around and make sure the pass word box is empty. If there is a password in the box, delete it and ok out.

I also think W 7 is the best system I have used. It was a little frustrating at first and I really missed my quick launch bar, but as a result learned to make my own.

THANK you ALL for your valuable info here in helping me out.
I appreciated your kind and thoughtfulness on the matter.
I feel better knowing my new purchase was not at fault with the gadget not working.

Now I have to put up with the WLM always going offline problem.
Do not want to screw up by trying to fix it. I did un and reinstall it with no luck.

There is no need or sensible reason to leave a perfectly fine OS and transition to 8.

Brushworks.

I do click on the "Globe" icon next to the send and receive to go Online but as soon as I click to open a mail to read, it automatically goes Offline and the opened messages will not show graphics.
When I open WLM it is always Offline and when I click to go online, I get two popups one right after the other saying I am working offline, to click yes to go online, the second one same thing but puts me Offline then?

I am using Chrome but you say to open IE to see if says Offline?

"I am using Chrome but you say to open IE to see if says Offline?"

Yes: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/livemail-program/windows-live-mail-is-stuck-in-working-offline/a395b127-ef3c-42d2-88c4-e6a9d1284d09

Brushworks,

I want to THANK YOU SO MUCH for solving the problem I had for a month now, my trying everything I could think of to fix, then thinking it was the computer which made me sick to my stomach with disappointment. How can I ever thank you? I did what you said and just now came back here to thank you. It was IE. How that can be is beyond me.

Richard,
I want to THANK YOU for putting the frosting on the cake by placing that link here. I was going to ask Brushworks how on earth he knew about that fix and here, you were so kind to reply with putting that link here.

You's are the BEST!