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Windows account ending with $

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Mar 15, 202645455 views
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A Windows account that looks like this "domain\computername$". What does that mean?

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Fix for: Windows account ending with $

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That's the computer account. When a computer joins a domain it has to have an account associated with it in order to apply policy settings. This gets created automatically when the computer joins. From Microsoft's technet article on accounts: Comput…

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