A couple of weeks ago Doug tried to help me work through a problem where my screen saver -password protection- resumes to a password protected locked screen. I need the computer to resume to the welcome screen so that guest users have access to the computer. Below is what Doug ...

After selecting a User on the Blue Log In screen, system
takes forever to get to active desktop. This just starting
happening. Screen says " loading personal settings"
Any suggestions as to where to look?

The password used by a summer student is not available to us.  We are desperate to get administrative access to the files on this computer.  How do we get a new password without a full system restore & losing all the files?

I was wondering if their was any way to view what the
original date of installation was on software packages,
without simply looking at the date that a folder was
created on.

I have a problem that a xp machine which is hooked up recently on a sbserver with active directory. A new local account was made and assigned to the administrator-group. A user on the sbserver was created, however a plain user, no administrator-rights and then joined the domain. ...

I have recently noticed that a new toolbar
called 'biasarmy' is working in Internet Explorer.  I
didn't download it and I don't know how to get rid of it.  
I don't know if it has any thing to do with it but I also

Okay... I was setting up a VPN from my XP Pro computer to
be the host. After all was in place and the users
selected, I clicked finish to put it in place. In doing
so, the VPN worked properly.

10 new computers all running windows xp pro. On 2/23/2004
6 of the computers booted and did not require the users
to enter a password to login. This resulted in the users
not having access to the file server. I re created

Have added my brother as a guest account on my HP XP. He
has his own desktop and personlized IE6, but we cannot
get it set up so that we each have our own personal
favorites lists. Mine shows on his, and his on mine. I am

Feb. 15 I downloaded just the "critical" updates for
Windows XP and IE. I declined all the others.
Immediately thereafter, I was bombarded with popup ads
that have Microsoft Internet Explorer in the blue space

Is there any way to see what files and/or folders have
been accessed after someone else uses my computer?  I'm
sure there's a log somewhere, I'm just not sure where!  
Thanks for your help!

I have a WinXP computer with only 1 user.  Is there a way to completely
turn off the Logon screen...it's really a pain and quite useless in my
setting...
Thanks,

Gentleman,
I need your help. I manually downloaded a free SYMANTEC
AND MACAFEE scan of my cpt. Sat night and found 5
infections and 1 WORM and virus.

Been testing software restriction policies on virtual PC for the last couple a days and have
encountered a minor problem.
I have now created a deny all exe policy with certain "allow only exe's" that windows needs in
normal operation.

I had a password on my computer administrator account and
my 13 year old daughter thought she would be cute and
change it. Guess what? She changed it allright and then
she couldn't remember what she changed it to. Now I