When installing Norton 2005 my Windows XP system lost the origional
Administrator User Account Icon on my start up screen and in the user
accounts section of control panel. I did not loose any of the accounts files
and folders. How do I restore this account without having system ...

Hi.  I have a WinXp Pro sp2 computer.  Normally I have it set to kick in a
password
protected scrensaver at 15minutes, and then I have the monitor set to power
save after one hour.

Please help.  My desktop has shifted halfway off my monitor.  I believe some
rogue program may have done this to my pc but I can find no where to fix it.  
The monitir can be adjusted to re-center the picture but then other pc's
images are off the other direction when I switch to ...

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I need a way for a user to run a program that will check the user's local pc
for installation and version of 3 applications:
1. Outlook (all versions)
2. Goldmine (all versions)

Recently installed 30 HP DeskJet 3740's. Due to restrictions, users cannot
change print color, page layout, etc in printer properties. Is there a way I
can enable them access to these features without making them part of the
Administrator's Group of the local machine?

What is the effect on the system of making a limited user temporarily an
administrator (in order to install certain applications, like toolbar
wallpaper, for them) and then returning them to limited user status? Will
this corrupt their profiles or do any damage?

Under WinXP Home Ed. SP2, is it possible to block existing file associations
so that new installed software cannot modify them anymore??
Just an exemple: installing MS Autoroute 2000 grabs .psp extension from
PaintShop Pro, and now it appears as "Microsoft Expedia bla-bla-bla" ...

I have an XP Pro Sp2 machine that will not install software that all my other
XP Pro Sp2 boxes have installed. The software vendor is telling me that with
XP Pro service pack 2, the MDAC components should have updated to version 2.8
RTM. When I run Microsoft's Component Checker 2 ...

I would like to make my Windows XP partition larger.  I have Windows XP on 6
gig, 2002 Ad. Serv. on 3 gig, 7 gig for programming, 10 gig for Fedora Core
4, I have an 8 gig and 6 gig free.  This is formated in FAT32 because I want
Fedora and Windows to see all partitions.  

I have booted into recovery console on an XP Pro
machine.  I changed to the "Documents and Settings"
with the cd docume~1 command.  Now I need to
go another level deeper but the directory name is

Is there any way to run a service interactively using a user account and not
the localsystem account?  I realize there are security issues but that is
not a problem in my scenario.  Ultimately what we are trying to do is run an
application that requires network access and will ...

How does one purge out the "C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>\Local
Settings\Temp" directories? As they fill up, the system and many programs
(Outlook Express for one) get slower and slower. I used to do this in
Win98SE via a line in AUTOEXEC.BAT but I doubt that will work ...

Does anyone know any good tips for speeding up the login and logoff process
for XP PCs in a domain.  For instance; removing apps from registry run key
or startup folder etc.  It appears XP is significantly slower to logoff than
2000 pro for some reason because it stalls at ...

I read and tried methods to get my task manager/ Regedit and MSconfig to work
because I get "Task manager/ regedit/ Msconfig disabled by administrator". I
am the admin, and I think it's caused my a virus.
I tried scanning for virus and spyware etc, but my computer is clean.