When I connect to internet, I get a "application updater"
error. When I send this error to MSFT and keep on
working, everything looks all right.
Does anyone know how to get rid of this error mesage ?

how do you delete some items in your task bar?

On a Windows XP Pro workstation, after joining a Windows
2000 domain, the domain is not listed in the "Select User
or Group" -> "Location..." dialog.  Only the local
machine appears in the list.  Consequently, permissions

My Pest Patrol foud these two suspicious registry entries.  I realize that
Gator has renamed itself Claria, so this concerns me a bit.  I would delete
them right away, except that they are in these "trusted publisher" keys.
Pest Detected in

I changed the computer name on my computer (Windows XP)
to create a home network, and changed it from a domain to
a workgroup. I now can't log on to my computer. How do I
change it back to the original domain, and to do so, how

We installed softwared called Rumba mainframe on our
client machine running Windows XP, the license key of the
product didn't get updated on the registy. Now we are
getting the Evaluation period has expired.

I got XP box (NAT-T update installed) behind NAT (freebsd
4.8) and trying to establish IPSec session with Win2003
Server (WinXP-->NAT-->Win2003). It seems that SA is
established (according to eventlog and IPSec monitor) but

4 days before deploying Windows XP over the entire
company we get a problem (big company...). Actually quite
a big one. On one of the machines we get a 40960 and a
40961 error. It tells me that a "downgrade attack" has

When the computer is booted up, I receive and error
message telling me that it can't find file
name, "C:\windows\system32\pwr32ctrl.exe" This began
happening after I cleared some files that were infected

It seems that just about everything I try to do on that requires some sort of password on the internet is blocked by some unknown activeX controls. I have a friend that knows alot about computers so i went to ask for remote assistance from him and it said i couldn't send that to ...

This may be just a matter of my teenager having discovered one of the
administrator passwords on our machine, but every few weeks I discover his
account has been changed from limited to administrator itself.
Is there a known security bug that lets this happen?

I have set my computer to do Automatic Updates from the
System interface under the Control Panel; however, it has
never worked.
I am interested in either fixing this or in setting Task

alright, this is my problem.... my computer always says the following "YOUR CURRENT SECURITY PROHIBITS RUNNING ACTIVE X CONTROLS ON THIS PAGE. AS A RESULT, THE PAGE MAY NOT DISPLAY CORRECTLY" I've read and done every single thing on active x controls to try and correct this ...

When trying to install XP SP1 on my computer I receive an
exit code of 1603. I can not find what this code
represents or a solution.

Is it possible password Login names to stop oyher users in the house logging in as another person?