I've just upgraded my machine from XP Home to XP Pro and
now I can't access http://localhost:8080 because it asks
for a login.  I don't know what to use for
username/password; the .NET username/password specified

I'm setting up an XP image for a high school computer
lab.  I've been using gpedit.msc for locking everything
down, and it's been working great.  However, it locks me
out too!  This is the side effect of not being part of a

PLEASE help when I am on line my cd-rom door opens and a
message appears saying that if my door just opened
someone could be spying on my computer.

When I go to Microsoft.com and click on Windows Updates,
the address adds a v4 before windowsupdate.microsoft.com,
thus I am directed to
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com.  Is this a fake

I have an annoying problem.   When ever I pull up "Add or
Remove programs" in Windows XP Home I get a monster gap
between the first 10 or so programs and the rest, I
theoretically scrol 6-7 pages to get to the rest of the

Probably a pointless question, but I will post it anyway.
Regarding the Defragmenter, only users belonging to the
Administrator group can defragment a volume. Does anyone
know if there is a way to allow other groups to do this?

I am using Windows XP Home. When I create users, it
allows me to choose between two types: administrator and
limited. I am trying to run QuickBooks on this system,
and whenever I try to execute the program from a limited

i cant get into my pc at home im the only user not
disabled but now i dont know the password i cant remember
it i dont have a reset disk and i didnt write it down now
i cant get in unable to do anything and i cant format it

I am having a problem setting up a new XP Profesional
computer.  Any user in our domain can log on to the
computer except for one.  I can not find any reason why
that user is not being allowed to log on.  The error that

Mcaffee keeps giving me a nirus alert about
C:\windows\fonts\msoffice.hta\00000015.com I cannot
delete this file or get rid of it in anyway. If anyone
knows anything about this please help.

While searching for the file "explorer.exe" on XP (due to it having a
high CPU usage), I found a copy in the folder
C:\winnt\system32\drivers. In this folder, I also found the following
files:

I have recently upgraded my machine from 2000 Pro to XP
Pro, and get the following error message "Setup could not
verify the integrity of the file Update.inf".  I have
searched the kbase tried re-registering some of my dll,

Should I insatll the latest Windows XP Security Update
(KB 810217)- "A security issue has been identified in
FrontPage Server Extensions..." even though I do not have
Microsoft FrontPage installed?

Can anyone please tell me whether I need to install the
latest Windows XP Critical Update - "Security issue for
FrontPage Server Extensions ..." even though I do not
have Microsoft FrontPage installed?

Is there any possiblity to give users the right to start and stop
services, without granting them full-administrative rights.
I normally work on my xp machine as a non-priviliged users, but know I
need to start some services sometimes.