I have my business computer set up so there is my Windows XP admin user account then my employee accounts. I have files i don't want them to get to so when i LOG OFF my Quickbooks Point of Sales and close it then log off my XP account and sign my employee in, it won't let me open Quick Books Point Of Sales. It says that it is already running and i need to close it first to open it on my employee account. This is an issue because i did close it out and then hit log off, to sign in the employee account. How can i fix this? I've also tried rebooting the computer and initially signing in on the employee account but i still get the same message, that it is already running on this workstation. I obviously what them to be able to access quickbooks point of sales but it won't let me run it. It's the one terminal i have at my retail store and everything is run off of quick books point of sales. So because they can't open it, i am stuck signing them into my admin account which i don't want to do. Even restarting my computer and initially signing in the employee account, i still get the message that QBPOS is already running. Which doesn't make sense and leads me to believe it has something to do with QBPOS startup. I've tried killing the QB processes with task manager as well as disabling QB start up processes, but still the same problem. Thank you in advance for your help!

darkknight2k3, BTDT, did you try another folder? If that wasn't it, http://www.computing.net/answers/wi... maybe? HTH. Ed in Texas.

I don't know anything about QBooks Point of sale software but a couple of things come to mind. First, is QBooks attempting updates that you haven't allowed to finish? Second, have you scanned the system for malware like keyloggers, etc.?