How do you make yourself the administrator when there are
no administrators on your windows XP?  Andy.

I have updated XP Pro, Norton, SpyBot and Webroot to try
to get top security.
But it appears that someone is using my hotmail address
to send spam.

I am trying to log on as the administrator in XP Pro, but
can find no way to do so. Is there a set of key strokes at
startup that allows this. You can't acces administrator
from the User Accounts in the Control Panel or from the

Could someone tell me what's the best way to eliminate
pop ups.  I will appreciate your advise.  Thanks. Jose.

I use ODBC drivers for SQLServer and Microsoft for Oracle
on 500+ workstations for custom reporting I have
experienced (3 times) the drivers becoming corrupt when
installing Data Sources and selecting SQLServer the

I bought a used computer  and found out later that
administrator was password protected. Is there a way to
change the administrator password?
Thanks for any help you can give me,  Mark

Hi this has been bugging me for a few days now.  I have installed arabic support for office xp, using the language settings and set the non unicode programs for arabic.  I have made sure that my settings are left to right as default.  Now it's fine in word.  But in microsoft ...

This was an automatic update.  
The computer now gives an error " The procedure entry point
GetProcAddr could not be located in the dynamic link
library KERNEL32.dll."

i cannot use my pcs because of this file it restarts my
computer every number of minutes

what kind of antivirus i can use against this virus?

Any help will be greatly apprciated. I took my harddrive
out of the old computer and installed it on the new one.
I have XP on new computer. When I installed the old HDD
on the new computer, I was not able to access my

Since I installed a patch on 4/9/03 and let Microsoft enabled a firewall on
my PC, I cannot get any updates - When selecting " Scanning your PC" it
quickly jumps to 100%, error is 0x800A138F. Windows update log file shows :
2003-11-13 19:39:01  17:39:01   Error     IUENGINE       ...

I'm the administrator on my computer a couple of months
back I dismantled my computer for moving but when I
recently set it back up I forgot my password to log on.  
I'm the only adminstrator.  My platform is XP home doe's

had to re-install xp and had my documents including
current resume and faxes encryted for protection and now
can not access them.  Follewed instructins for mmc but
only came up with add under polices and no create.  Need

wow. this is driving me crazy. I want to be able to
install a program from one user and let the other user
accounts use the program file.
ie - i install a game (diablo), but no one can use the