A writer about security measures in the Washington Post says that there
is no better way of securing one's computer from attack than by changing
one's user account to limited. He seems pretty convincing.
Before I make the change, I wanted to get some feedback from others who

I am about to buy my wife a new (desktop) computer that has Vista
pre-loaded. My computer is running XP and I would like to put XP on the new
one. Is there any reason I can't do a clean install of XP on the new
machine? I have a Windows XP CD available.

I'll bet your experts have never heard this one before. I am a retired
American in Mexico. The animal shelter goes online with WIndows XP
Professional Edition, Service Pack 1, Spanish. They use Nod 32 anti-virus
(free trial) which expired 273 days ago, and no anti-spyware program ...

I can not open windows explorer.  Below is the message from Event Viewer.  I
can access My Documents and I can find files using the command prompt.  Can
anyone help to solve this problem.  Tanks.
Event Type:    Error

I recently upgraed my computer and reinstalled Windows XP home, my computer
was corrupted before I did the upgrade, I used the files transfer wizard to
save my files and documents and transferred them after upgrade. My computer
is still running slow. My question is did I also ...

I have lost my desktop icons and cannot figure out how to get them back on
the display.  They are in the computer but I cannot display them on the
desktop screen. Any help would be appreciated.

Is there any way to get Explorer to restart a disconnected download?
JimL
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Good evening!
I have Acrobat Standard 6 installed and am current on all updates, and tried
to install Version 8 of Acrobat Reader on my Windows XP desktop, which alkso
is current on updates.  I received the following error message:

Server = Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 x64 RAID 1
Client = Windows XP Professional SP2
The server has an E:\ drive. It is shared on the network. Clients have
permission to manage folders and files on this drive.

I keep getting an error message when I try to open Windows Media Player. This
program was working perfectly just a few days ago but now the program won't
open and the Windows Media Player won't work. The error message is :"Windows
Media Player cannot play file because there is a ...

Before I begin, let me say that I don't know much about computers, but
I can usually follow directions.
My wife's computer died.  To make a long story short, I want to put
her hard drive into my computer as a second hard drive so that she can

Where does Windows store the passwords that it remembers?  Is there a way to
view them and delete some if necessary?

I would like to know how to go about stopping programs from starting at start
up?

the "search for files and folders" function in xp is out of work!
none file can be found out whatever I input in "Search for files or folders
named:" or "Containing text" text box.
why?

I want to export a list of Files, and locations, to a text file.
If I do 'DIR /S' from DOS, this shows the info I need on the DOS screen
however I cant recall how to export this list to a txt file.
Is there a switch I need to use with DIR /S or is there another way of doing