hi, i use yahoo as my email service and i keep getting
emails that say they are from microsoft, they look real
and are re: security patch or last update. well i didn't
download, but i did scan the attachment's with norton and

I ran Microsoft Security Analyzer which stated I had four
administrators on my computer- there should only be two.  
The user accounts page only shows two.  Where do I find
these other Administrator accounts and get rid of them? I

I am an XP Home user connected to broadband cable. Yesterday, having left my
machine connected I came down to a blue screen with a message that the
'hive' area was unreadable. The machine would not load. After various
expeiriments with the Norton System boot Loader and Windows XP ...

For the first time I downloaded and installed a Windows
Update.  It happened to be the XP Service Pack.
As soon as I did, my Outlook Express started removing
every attachment I received, giving me the message that

I am running a windows 2003 Enterprise server,the C drive
is having a huge 8gb pagefile.sys.
I have tried to delete it
1.using recovery console -tried to copy boot.ini to

I have been testing SUS in a non-Active Domain environment
with a WinNT PDC. The SUS server is a W2k server OS.  The
client is a Win XP Pro box.  I performed a registry edit
as stated in the SUS White Paper for clients in a non AD

Help!
on our network, one of the applications runs from a network drive, and each
time a user clicks on the icon to start it, they get the same icon you would
when trying to download a file from a website... clicking open works just

When trying to adjust folder options, I could not find
the Control Panel Applet "Folder Options". I tried
running "control folders" from the Run command and
received a message that, "This operation has ben

Yep, ok, another EFS ****-up!
I have recently encrypted a folder on my harddrive, and of course, I forgot
to export the certificate/key. I running XP sp1, and nothing has changed
since I encrypted the files, login/user is still the same, only a few

I am in the process of upgrading a number of computers
from Windows 98 to XP and also buying a number of new
machines which already have XP on them. We have a large
number of users, any of whom might need access to any of

I am trying to instual the program update.  I keep getting
a message saying "make sure the cryptographic service is
running."  I can't seem to fine where you check to see if
it is running or how to start the service.  Can you help

I am having a problem with Windows XP and A Windows Smart Card.
I have Windows 2003 Server with Active Directory.  The Smart Card was
created from the user settings in AD.  So my user name is name@domain  and
that is what is placed on the card.

Just got a new computer and am using Windows XP for the
first time - have set up 5 user accounts but I am only
able to access the internet through my own.
I have spoken to my ISP (Freeserve) who advise there is a

I have a new computer with windows xp. My old computer
had windows 98. I have subcribed to norton & have the
2003 disc . Although it installed & worked well on the
old computer it will not install on the new system .

Does XP have a backup function. Thanks..Mike