I have a stand alone Win XP pro pc I want to setup with a
retrictive local policy. i.e 2 users,USERA and USERB. When
USERA logs he gets the full start menu. When USERB logs
in, items in the start menu are disabled.  How do i

When a user with a limited access account (XP
Professional) login the Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect is
turned off.

Recently, pver the past few months my computer has been
acting "funny".  Anytime that I switch users or log off,
the a: drive will start scanning itself like it is
reading a disk when nothing is in there; furthermore, My

I am logged in as local admin and trying to remove the
Read Only Attribute that is on a Shared Directory. I have
tried everything I can think of, but everythime I try to
remove the read only setting -  click OK to change the

I am the sole user of my computer and appear to have a
corrupted name.  How can I creat a new name as
Administrator, deleting my current one and still be able
to access the same files I am at this time?  I am using

I tried to set up a user account but it wont allow them to
access internet explorer and all other programs are very
slow to start up ...can any one give me a step by step to
set up this account so the user has access to internet

HELP!
Someone has managed to hack onto my standalone PC (even
though I run zone alarm) I run XP pro. They have changed
the admin account and obviously I do not have the password.

New to Windows XP
Outlook Express removes mail because it thinks it is
unsecure?  I can't even mail a picture to myself?
Help

I am managing a small network with Windows XP
workstations. Users on the stations need to be local
administrators, because of particular software
applications, but we would like to prevent the users from

Long story .... smoked a CPU and motherboard .... fan failed ... both replaced by CompUSA (covered - no $$$)
Upgraded to larger HD .... they (CompUSA) installed HD and reloaded XP Pro ... came with original PC
I'm in the process of installing the rest of my software and came ...

Tried to download the Critical Updates & Service Packs.
The "Windows Express Service Pack". It had to be
downloaded by itself. I COULD NOT do it. It kept arriving
at an ERROR MESSAGE:

On XP-Home is it possible to control the programs in the
Start Menu by user?  I have a bunch of work related
programs that my wife doesn't need to sift through when
she logs in under her account.  Any suggestions?

I have a Microsoft SUS server running in my network.  
It's working fine according to the syncronization log.  
It looks for new updates at the scheduled time and it
pulls the new ones down.  Many of these updates have been

When I set a group policy administrative template for the
user to disable context menus on the task bar, it does not
prevent users from right clicking and getting to windows
Explorer.  Users are forbidden to look at properties on

i am trying to install Norton Internet Security 2004 and
receive the following message " the MSI must be launched
through setup". I have tried everything suggested by
Symantec the software providers and am now wondering if i