I have 3 computers on my home LAN. One is running WinXP the other two
Win98se. I have tried to remove all of the drive sharing from all of
the computers. the 2 98 machines work fine but the XP machine refuses
to update the list of drives available and still show that the drives

Hello folks, Win2K user converting to XP here. Under 2K, I was always used to
walking away from the computer after pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL and selecting
Lock. Under my XP install, Lock is not available. In the Help file, it
mentions something about Lock being an option if your a ...

We have a domain with around 1000 PC's, all users are "normal users", and
they don't have access to the power management settings in Windows XP, now
after upgrading some to XP sp2, the power management has been turned on, how
to turn that off again with out having to give the users ...

On some computers, If you double-click on User Accounts - it brings up the
GREY ControlUserPasswords2 dialog box. On other computers a different screen
apears listing the users and an Icon with tasks. Are there any windows
settings that would make that happen?

I just installed a DVD +/- RW.  I noticed that after it was installed when I
go to explorer the DVD is displayed as a CompactFlash/MicroDrive(E:) and not
as a DVD/CD drive can you explain why and how to change it to a DVD if
possible.

My DOS application needs to print on server 2003 printers
and shared usb printers on workstations.  I've tried
things like "net use lpt1 \\server\HP 400\" etc without
success.  Where can I learn all there is to know about

In the SHELL I type de command DATE and show "Current date is: 10/10/2004" ,
no show the weekday. This occur in the spanish version but I suppose that
would can to happen same in the english version.
? Somebody know why ?

I am getting a window that pops up for every program that I click on Called  
Run As then asks which user account I want to use to open the program with a
box under it for protect my computer and data from unautorized activity--I
asked earlier and was refered to a solution that ...

For some reason, the log off or switch user function on
my computer has stopped working. I can only logg off the
user I'm in, instead of being able to swith the user. I
don't get the option any more.

i currently have two hard drives. one on primary ide
channel (C:) booting the windows xp boot
manager....windows me is on C: and the other drive is on
the secondary ide channel booting windows xp (d:).  both

Some windows files are not working for example if I try
to install any windows component i get an error message
Windows installer could not be accessed. This can occur
if you are running safe mode , or the windows installer

We purchased 10 HP d220 computers, all identical, came with XP Pro/SP1
installed.
We purchased a 15 user license for Office 2003, which installed just fine
and works on all accounts on all 10 computers.

How Can I reinstall WinXp after I've installed SP2 via a
download and I have in my possession an installation CD
with SP1 and windows installer is not functioning, and I
stare some key services such as plug & play RPC etc.

After downloading SP2 I cant open PDF files from the
web.  (PDF's on the hard drive work just fine.)  It must
be something in the Windows Explorer settings, but I
can't seem to find it.  Any ideas would be welcome.

i have a gateway celeron notebook and when i recovered
from a bad shutdown this happened on startup (logging in
to windows xp home). i cannot increase the virtual
memory, even in safe mode, but i can decrease it to 0. i