I am trying to change the local policy settings on a XP
Pro Box but the password age is grayed out. Can you help.
the box is also pard of a domain . with win 2000 domain
controller

my son was using the cookies happily until he installed
the latest version of Media Player.  After that, he lost
all his cookies.  What's worse is that the cookies he
created during the session will be lost once he logs

I continue to get bogus microsoft security update
messages sent to my e-mail several times a day. i checked
microsoft's web site and identified that the notices i
keep getting are false and it appears that the sender(s)

Why do I receive a new security update everyday with the
same product numbers.  Is this a flaw with Microsoft.  Do
they know what's happening.  This is happening with two
different computers I use at two different sites.

write ive got trojan horse and my anti virus cant find it.
a message keeps coming up saying that trojan horse is in
this file:c:\system volume
information\_restore-{dc0cde00-345d-4943-8863-22d7b3c7388a}\rp98\a0043639.exe

When I click on network connections, I cannot see any of
my network connections.  I want to make some changes to
the LAN connections but cannot see it.
Please Help!!

Help or my family are leaving me.  In internet explorer
through tools and internet options the content tab
the 'content advisor' password is locked.  No-one claims
to have set this and no=one can unlock it.  Any ideas.

I have been told that having porn on my machine can
damage the operating system.  Is this true?  Even if the
file,usually an mpeg or avi, and is not seen as a virus
by latest virus definitions, can it control or damage the

i hope u are going to help me solve my problem.i'm using
windows xp professional on my laptop.and when i'm turning
it on it requires password to log on but i don't have it
so i can log on as administrator user.I REALLY want to get

For the last couple of days I've been getting emails with
attachments from Microsoft announcing a "New Network
Patch". I'm worried about opening and installing this
because I have my system set to automatically download

I'm running WinXP Pro.
I have a broadband connection to the internet.
A few months ago, I beleive I was able to eliminate
unwated pop-up messages by turning off the Messenger

I have set up IIS on a winXP professional, and i need to give certain
filepermissions to the system account "ASPNET". On my normal machine which
is on a domain this is straightforward, but on the machine which is not in a
domain I'm having trouble figuring out how to accomplish this ...

We have an XP Corp Ed. License. However whenever microsoft sends security
updates, it kills my printing. I constantly have to roll back the security
updates. So it doesn't work for us. Is MS aware of this??

I have set up a VPN through our firewall to enable users to work from home. I created a batch file to map their network drives once they are connected. I want to use one generic batch file for this purpose. To map the home directory I am using this line:
net use ...

Anyone know how to prevent a specified user on a local
computer (No Network) from accessing "Network
Connections" so that they cannot see the list of
connections when the "Network Connections" link is