I bought a new scanner but the software says I must be the
administrator to install the software.
How do I login as administrator?
George McMillin

Every few minutes, a message appears stating that
dllhost32.exe has encountered a problem and needs to
close. How do I stop this from appearing?

i received the message "error: logon failure: unknown user name or bad
password"
after trying tasklist /svc
i'm logged in as administrator. i'm using xp pro.

Any clue why the \windows\system32 folder displays on
startup? OS is Win XP Prof.

My computer was infected with the blaster worm pretty much
right after upgrading to Windows XP and getting on the
internet to download the updates.  I cleaned the computer
with a program and patch from the Microsoft website.  

When the computer starts up, I would like it to automatically logon as a
certain user but then to immediately lock itself.
This is because I want services set to automatic (and programs in the
startup folder) to begin anytime the machine boots up, but I do not want it

Need help systome restore not working. I checked it and
have enough drive space. The restore points are there but
when I click to restore it do not restart or restore.

Is there a virus that disables the used of Task Manager and Regedit?  I can access regedit in safe moe but they will not work in normal mode. thank you for any input.

Can anyone help me?  I bought an HP all-in-one.  The
first thing the installation software does is check for
minimum requirements.  I pass everything except "System
Administrator" which makes NO sense since I AM the System

I am having trouble with pushing out a driver signing
policy with group policy. It will not apply the setting I
set in the GPO. I saw a support article that said
Microsoft understood that there was an issue with this

when I first start my pc and go out to the internet...I
have a porn site that has attached itself to my homepage.
I can change it. But, when go to shutdown I get an error
warning that "Win Min" can not shutdown...do you know

I had a program creating randomly named exe files that I
cannot now find. The name of one was ytaxj.exe  Trying to
kill them spawned new ones. Using end process tree finally
killed them all, once I found the root process, which had

I just got a Dell 2400 with XP family edition.  I
remember creating an Administrator account and one
account for each member of my family.  At start up my
family members' accounts appear but not the

When trying to pull up data, wupdater window comes up
with data1.dat message in it. We cannot install anything
and even if I download, it will not install.
 What is causing this and how do I fix itl

Windows XP Home version
I was the assigned computer administrator (the only one
on the computer).  The account type was changed from
ADMINISTRATOR to LIMITED.  The computer nolonger has an