How can I recover a lost Administrator password - other
than the complicated methods posted on the net.  Is there
a easy, built in way done by Microsoft?
Thanks

It seems that after joining this newsgroup I'm bombarded with e-mails that contain a "windows update" of some sort or "patch" however these are virus e-mails,   Seems kind of ironic to me.  Does anyone know who does this or whom?

We needed Excell and Outlook to send and receive lists
from home office in Texas and We upgraded Mellinium with
Windows XP Pro and then added Office 2000, everything
loaded fine with exception of dialing up Earthlink, after

I had installed windows XP home and I need to format my
computer but I have a problem because I  lost the
Certificate of Authenticity. On the label that is left on
the book is 0043-469-564-819

I recently set my administrator account to limited access
because i was having issues with the internet, anyway, i
went back to set up my account to administrator and it
will not let, it says i don't have authorization. Can

I had to re-install my windows XP pro due to a disk
error.  I still have the harddrive and I want to recover
My Documents.  Unfortunately I my accounts My Documents
secured from viewing by other.  Now I have no way of

I am trrying to install the sp1 update to windows xp. it
keeps giving me an invalid product id. I have not entered
any id and all other updates load fine. ideas?

I had already checked that location and found it to be
empty, except for "default".  What I'm trying to get rid
of are numerous website URLs that are listed there.  I
have cleared the temp internet directories and history,

I was wondering how/with what I can successfully lock
every key on my keyboard, including the keys activated by
the function key, Like volume, contrast, and some
others.  If anyone knows of a program that can lock every

I apologize for bothering you, but would you know if it is
possible to burn XP updates onto CD? I need to format my
computer and was hoping that by burning the updates that I
have downloaded already that I might save about 4 hours of

I've just fired up XP and found a message telling me that
I have 3 days in which to reactivate XP due to
significant hardware changes. This was odd because the
onlt thing I've been changing on the PC is updating a

I have an XP Pro system that has just joined a domain. I
want the domain user (charles) to still use all the local
settings and have access to the local "Documents and
Settings". Currently the domain user (charles) is using a

I would like to run a script (myscript.cmd) at the moment
a person shuts down the workstation. ????
Can anyone help me please.

How do I get the security tab in the file properties
window on computers not running on domains? (I don´t want
to use the mmc way).
/ Mikael

I have a problem with an encrypted file system which I
created but then I reformatted my c partition and now the
sid is different. Is it possible to recover it with
another admin account somehow? I tried different things