I recently installed Windows XP Professional on one of our PC's.  I have a
problem that seems to be unique to this installation.
Right after installation I found two user accounts - Administrator and
Guest.  I like to use the same administrator account name on all of our XP

how can I change the display resolution and dual-head / single-head
properties via a batch script?
What I want to have is something like two different presets:
1. lowres 1024x768 single head

I'm trying to find the registry key so I can force Windows XP Pro to always
show the My Computer and My Documents folders on the desktop.  
The computers are part of a domain, and it seems that the 'show on desktop'
setting is profile specific, but I want it set the same for ...

when I open the explorer with the right mousebutton on START, it shows the
tree of C:. I have all my datas on E:. I'd like, that the tree of E: is
showed. Can I change this? Tks !

My desktop computer is running XP (home) SP2 . For several months now I have
been connecting to it remotely from my laptop over a VPN. However, it now
appears the VPN isn't working. After doing a lot of checking for possible
problems I decided to run the New Connection Wizard on the ...

I have changed the mouse settings for my profile to left handed, but I
notice that the login screen after the machine initially boots still thinks
that the mouse is right handed. Is it possible to change settings so that
the initial login screen also uses left handed settings. I ...

I have a taskbar shortcut for "mssql" appearing on start-up. I do not use
mssql. If it is not necessary to the computer performance how do I remove
it. Thanks for your help....charlie

I am running a Windows XP PRO and when I do a print preview the spoolsv.exe
process start to go up to 90% making the PC works very slow, after 20-30
seconds the print preview opens up and the PC gets back to working fine.  
This thins is happening only on a profile that is a User ...

After installing IE7 and then restarting, all of my icon shortcuts have
forget how to open thier programs. I would get a message saying windows
didn't know how to open problem and told me it could look on internet or I
could browse. I chose to browse and went to the coresponding ...

Has Microsoft come up with an easy way to remove a computer from the domain
but then still be able to use the same domain profile?  I need to make sure
to keep all the current settings including items in protected storage like
ceritifcates, etc...  The profile is stored on the ...

Running XP and installed Vista Beta on a different partition. Dual boot
worked fine but I got tired of that so I wiped the Vista partition.
Planned on installing over the XP install. Went into msconfig/boot.ini
and there was only the single boot path showing. When I boot up I ...

Is there scripting methods available to configure COM Security?
We need to apply defaults & limits to Access Permissions and Launch and
Activation Permissions without having our users go through running dcomcnfg.

i'm using the default administrator account (which i've renamed to my name),
i added my wife's account (with admin priviliges) and when she tries to
access internet using her account, sites open well, but when she tries to
access secure sites (hotmail or yahoo), after the login ...

I uploaded some pictures onto a relatively new Dell laptop (WinXP) direct
from the camera using a USB cord.
Now whenever I open MS Explorer to view the directory tree, when I click on
a directory to open it, a search window comes up instead of opening the

I have a situation where one of the helpdesk techs reset permissions on the
entire Docs&Settings folder on 10 PCs. (thus inheriting from the C: drive).
I have fixed all of the profiles and folders except the NetworkService and
LocalService profiles as I can't seem to find these ...