Somehow I lost my automatic update icon in the
notification area of the system tray. How can I restore
and then configure it? Thanks. Peter

I have just installed a new computer and am unable to open
my attachments in my outlook.  This is the following
statement that comes up when i try to open them:  "OE
removed access to the following unsafe attachments in your

After discovering the blaster worm and IRC trojan horse on
our computer running XP Pro, and fixing the problems, we
find we cannot install Norton 2003 because "a copy already
exists" nor can we uninstall it because apparently we

I have run the following (as administrator) to permit a
program to install the trial version of Plus! Digital
Media into "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Documents"
Start your computer by using an administrator account.

What do you do when you've forgotten your adm. password
and the hint doesn't help. Goes to show, you should never
change passwords when medicated after a hospital visit.
I'm losing my mind and this is my work based computer at

I'm constantly receiving pop-up offers and even when not
connected to the net i'm asked to re-connect. New
toolbars also appear for new offers and I haven't got a
clue on how to get rid of it.

An ex girlfriend got into my house and set the password
for my windows log on.  She is no where to be found and I
am clueless with a hint of asdasd how do I reset this
password without reinstalling my entire OS and programs?  

error says after i download the xp patches is that
..this is not a valid win32 application.
Have no idea what to do to get these patches
installed and operating>

I would really apriciate it if somebody could help me
because I am facing a problem with my windows xp home
edition. I don't now how but all the passwords -
administrators -and just other  user's are "deleted" or

Just installed XP Home.  Trying to get the updates.  I
know there's a patch for the remote administrator
shutdown.  Is there any way to turn the remote admin. off
until I can obtain the patches?  I can't keep the

My computer downloaded the security update for Microsoft
Windows XP[KB828035] on 11/14.  I had my computer install
the program 11/15.  I began having problems gaining
access to Internet sites as well as sending or receiving

I'm trying to share a file, giving the read-only access
for everyone, and read-write rights to several guys. All
these computers are in the same workgroup (not domain).
1. After I 've shared this file on a XP Professional

This worm has the same symptoms as the blaster worm but
instead runs spoolsrv.exe.  I have just accidentally ended
a process srv something or other.exe which has terminated
the RPC.  Now i cannot load up windows properly and only

I want to change the Name of a logical Drive, I have tried:
Cont>AdminTools>CompManagement>DiskManage>Properties> And tried to rename
Local "Disk (E)" To "Files (E)"...Windows Error Pops up and says "You do not
have sufficient rights to perform this operation"  I am logged in as

I'm getting all kinds of errors connected with the WMI.  
I've done all the troubleshooting suggested but keep
running up against error 0x80041002 (WMI not found.)
I have not had a virus, have reloaded XP twice, once a