I purchased and installled WinXP in Jan 2003. I
successfully did a system restore a few months ago when I
ran into some problems. This time MS Explorer won't run so
I can't do security updates. The last successful run was on

When using the welcome screen option. I get a list of
users to logon. but not the administrator. I want to log
on the admin. what can I do?? why doesn't the admin
account appear on the screen.

I have a user's machine.  It's a Dell D800 running
Windows XP.  When this user logs into our domain (we only
have one) he does not always authenticate to the domain.  
I know this because he has a specific driver for his PDA

My daughter changed the administrator's password and
doesn't remember it. Any solutions without re installing
everything?

I have 3 XP machines that access a Win98 P2P computer for
sharing Word & Excel files.  If I turn ON ICF, upon boot,
NONE of them can read the shared folders on the Win98
machine.  As soon as I turn it OFF, the XP's can see the

XP has recently given me a very bad login problem- no one can login. And I mean no one- administrator, local guest, any other user. The machine is on a domain , and no users can logon that way either. It goes like this:
Enter username&Passwd
"Loading you settings"
"Applying your ...

Is there anyway to set a password for the remote
assistance in windows xp home edition so that windows
prompts the user to enter the password to be able to use
the remote assistance?

i keep getting this message i have so many days to
activate windows must i do this an why?

We have enabled software restriction policies and everything is working
great except for one small problem.  Our policy is set to deny everything
except the applications that we specify.
We have only one application that should be exempt from the sofware

When I try to browse a site that has a "CSV file",I click the link and
I get a prompt for saving the file, The "Always Ask " checkbox is
always disabled, Based on the contents in this article
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=232077

I found when running Norton Antivirus a Spyware ".exe"
file called redirect5.exe.  Symantec could not delete the
file and I did not want to exclude it from future scans
so I simply skipped it.  Symantec recommended performing

When I clear the autocomplete there are still a couple of
web-sites that stay in there. ?

Just recently, anytime I go to Internet Options to clear
my history, etc, I receive the error message: "This
Operation has been cancelled due to restrictions on the
computer.  Please contact your System Administrator."  

This popped up yesterday when I try to google or msn.com. Is this legit?
If you see this page your hosts file has been hacked. Please use the instruction below to clean your machine.
You cannot reach the site you where trying to reach without following this procedure! - Please ...

In order to edit our web page I need to have the Active X
enabled. I have done this but am not able to edit. I get
the message " Your current security settings prohibit
running Active X controls on this page." I have tried to