"That is how it is" really doesn't help me understand how
it got that way, how to change it, or what else that
having the system in this condition might imply.
I am obviously concerned about the system's security and

I can not get my search engines to work. I get an error
message when I try to log on to google or ask.com. I can
access a search engine through cnn.com but no others.
Yahoo is my home page and I am able to use email and read

Security Bulletin MS03-041 was flagged by Security
Analyzer as being needed on my system.  But when viewing
the different patches all I find is XP Gold and XP 64-
bit.  I am running XP Professional.

recently I adquired what I belive to be a virus.
Symtoms : 1. Machine runs high CPU usage even when most
processes have been killed (between 20 and 95%(I'm on a
athlon 2800+ with 768 ddr 333))

How can I disable the new security updates?  Outlook
Express now blocks every single attachment I receive.

I recently downloaded the basic RealAudio Player in order
to listen to a file with that format.  By coincidence or
not, Norton Anti-Virus shortly after that notified me
that I had a Trojan in the Windows Media Player folder

I want to delete my win xp and install w2k instead, but I
dont know how to delete xp!
Any suggestions?
Thanks,

I have Windows XP for Office and Outlook Express and
hotmail for e-mail. Apparently when I delete e-mails from
outlook and then even purge them from the deleted
folder... somehow those deleted items are still on your

I recently purchased a new computer with WIndows XP Pro
on it. After using it a while, especially after going
onlne and doing e-mail with hotmail, I noticed a new
account appear under User Accounts in COntrol

    there.
                   I need some help related to certificate in additional
rules in Local security policies...
            From where i can find the certificates or how to work with it,

another quick one: when i recently installed XP Pro over
my old XP Pro installation, all of the Programs i had
installed, as far as i know were removed from the
registry or something, because they are all still

Help! I don't know if this is a security issue but while
online this morning (this also happened a couple of days
ago), the screen goes blue and a message appears that
says something to the effect of "Windows has discovered a

Is there any way to prevent users frum running screen
savers in Xp Pro?

I am using Windows XP Pro w/SP1A.  I would like to set
them up so that the end user can not change the phone
number to dial out.
I am not using Active Directory.  These users are just low

Anybody know a way to password protect a printer?  Just
to keep the kids from printing a bunch of web site pages.
Thanks.