I'm running XP professional.  have noticed that when
commencing a file search in windows explorer (ie,
c:\windows\explorer.exe) that XP tries to obtain an
outgoing connection to sc.windows.com:80

      I receive the following message when I try to
acess my Display Settings in the control panel, "Your
system Administrator disabled the Display control
panel.". Although I am logged in as the system

I have a share that I have created for my users and I want to put
permissions on the sub folders so that the user can:
Do anything in a subfolder except delete files and folders.  I am struggling
to get this setup and it should not be that hard.  The share resides on a

I want to create an account that gives administrative
privileges to run certain applications using different
credentials but I do not want it to appear on the Windows
Log On screen.  This way no one can sign on directly to

I have three users on my computer (running XP Pro): to
limited and the original administrator account.  When I
turn on the computer, I do not get the welcome screen to
select which user to log on. Instead, the original

I back up my data to a second drive.  I have tried to set
a folder on the second drive as private but the option
is "greyed out."
The source folders are set as private but not the copy.

i have forgotten my password, and don't have a clue as how
to get back in.

I changed my computer from Domain to Workgroup and when I
restarted I found that I could not log on with my
Administrator password. HELP!!

I have a small workgroup network with 5 machines running windows 2K and one
running XP pro. All the machines have blank Administrator passwords (I know
that's probly not a good thing but that's a different story) We had a
service that wouldn't start up on the XP box because the ...

I have just finished reading the documentation on microsoft involving
the software restriction policies.
Are there any security conscious people out there who also have
experimented with this and have compiled a list that doesn't break any

Following newspaper stories re newly developed security
updates for Microsoft XP I downloaded and installed some
40 Security and Critical Update patches that Microsoft
site deemed urgent for my computer. Upon re-booting I

Hi i have a problem, i promised a friend i would save
some documents from his "my documents" folder after he
had a big crash.
When i tried to simply copy the folder i noticed tha it

(Note:  O/S - Windows XP Home)  Computer has MyDoom and
Doomjuice variance worm.  It recognizes when I try to
perform following tasks:  (Ctrl + Alt + Delete for) Task
Manager; (run) regedit; regedt32; msconfig; (and try to

I had to restart my PC this morning, and was told that my
login password had expired.  I've never used a password
before, but now I cannot get past this login screen.  How
can I proceed?

is there a way to read the contents of a specific window
into a text file with a vbscript?  
surferboy