I accidentally uninstalled my system's basic windows components, such as
taskmgr.exe and the other basic programs that windows normally accesses.
I was wondering, is there any way to get these back without reinstalling
windows? I tried system restore, but as i expected, system ...

I have a folder on my C: drive that I must manually copy from C: to a
network folder at the end of every day, so that it can be backup up along
with the server's files.  Until today, when I installed this App (it's called
Karen's Replicator - very cool) that will automatically do ...

A friend has XP Home SP2. She also has 5 kids.
The kids will leave themselves logged in.  Is there a way
to force XP to log off a user after say an hour of zero activity?

We've just started migrating our workstations from Windows 2000 to winXP Pro
and discovered that we cannot manage the workstation (from My computer ->
Manage ->Computer Managment(local)-> right mouse and select connect to
computer).

i forgot my windows xp password how do i get it back/in to it

Is there any way to restrict logon hours to computers?
I know you can restrict user logon hours but I require a computer to not
accept any user logons after hours. I understand the implications this may
cause.

    Regardless of what I'm doing or program(s) I'm using at the moment,
system spontaneously reboots.  Error messages are sent by me on OCR at MS, &
only information I get out of the reports sent are that some unknown
installed component (hardware/software?) caused a sudden STOP ...

Normally, a small indicator icon appears in the bottom right of the
status bar when I connect a USB device like a thumb drive/flash drive
( it looks like a PC card being inserted into a computer, but appears
for USB devices as well).

Many of the computers in my lab are giveing the message that I do not have a
geniune copy of Win XP.  It is correct, it was installed from a disk that was
purchased thinking it was genuine for one computer.  We were waiting for a
disk to come, we had purchased a license for 150 ...

To whoever can solve this my sincere appreciation...
I have a hard drive "D:" on which I keep a lot of old AutoCAD job files. I
just noticed today for some reason that this folder and all the folders and
files under this main AutoCAD archive folder are in "Read-Only" mode! I

I have a remote user whose computer was a member of domain "x", and
when he logged in to his computer he logged into domain "x" on that
computer, I assume that the computer is using cached credentials
because it allowed him to login to the domain, although he was not

I am running XP home edition and have also installed SP2. When connecting an
USB device it is shown to be detected but is not available. A flashdrive for
example is shown to be available but not shown in explorer. The system also
does not automatically assign a drive letter to ...

I'm having a problem with the Pinned Program List:
Every time I try to remove anything by right-clicking, Remove from Pinned
Program list, XP crashes.  Also, I can't boot into Safe Mode, so I've no
idea if I could do it there.

The hard drive on my PC crashed and I rebuilt my computer with a new
HardDrive. I have now put the old crashed Hard drive back in the machine as a
second hard drive to try and recover my data. This worked just fine, and I
was able to get most of my stuff, except for all my ...