One of my kids iniatiated the Power up password and does
not remember what the password is. Is there anyway to
disable this? Safe mode perhaps? I cannot get past it to
the main windows screen. Thanks

Does anyone know how to stop this failure audit event
being recorded. Its happening on a couple of my clients
now and with enforced 90 day log retention I need to keep
increasing the log size, I'm not happy with this and want

I work for the Salavation Army and we were given a
computer with xp home edition and when we boot, it has a
password at login screen for a user. We do not want to
reformat how can we get around this to get into windows.

i don't some other people use safe mode in my computer.
are there any suggestions can be give.

I wanna share some folders and all users from the workgroup to have access
to them.
I tried with Guest account as I read somewhere, but it doesnt work.
Please tell me step-by-step what to do.

i apologize if this is a poor place to post this, but I'm
getting desperate. i recently picked up a "virus" that
Macafee and Norton do NOT detect. They say I'm fine. Every
time I reboot my homepage defaults to www.find-itnow.com 

i lost my windows cd, an oem version, and while i have
the product id, i want to know is there any way to find
out my product key? cud sum1 plz help me out? jack

I receive about 40 e-mails a day with Microsoft latest patches attached most
are about 156kb in size. I don't need any of these as I use auto update via
Windows xp the question is how do I stop them coming.
Tia Peter

Users group which by default doesn't allow ActiveX controls to be installed.
how do you over come this?? how do i allow standard user to run activex
control for a specific website?

A friend of my father's gave me a computer with a problem
to fix :
When trying to run programs, Windows would claim that the
executable isn't found and wouldn't run the program. But

Could you helm me with an error about "userbridge.exe"
that comes on when I start windows on my laptop with
Windows XP home edition.
How can I fix this problem?

When I try to install updates from windowsupdate web site,
I get the license window.
Top part used to contains list of updates, but it is empty
now, and the Accept button is disabled all the time.

I have four (new) Windows XP machines. They are set up in
a domain. Normal operation seems fine. Just some things
are problematic.
Main reason seems to be the Security Eventlog permission

I am having a major problem with this pop up - it tries to connect to the
above site, every time I open IE6. It then uses 100% system resources until
I close it down, which I have to do via Task manager.
I have XP Pro, bang up to date, Zone alarm pro ditto - AVG grisoft Ditto.

Dell sent me a clean machine that didn't have all of MS's
intrusion stuff on it. Unfortunately, I accidently loaded
some stuff - I have no idea what - and MS's servers keep
bombarding me trying to get in. The address of MS's