Is it possible for a workstation to do its patches
without having the user logged in as "administrator" or
with administrator privileges. We are thinking of
depoying the Sofware Update Services and are wondering

I had notebook pre-instaled windows xp home edition. in saturday, 14
February 2004 I can dial-up to my ISP but since I can browsed with Internet
explorer that appeared message "The Page can't be display". I will try to
run Microsoft Outlook, it had problem "Can't find server pop3 ...

I have a problem with xp professional password trying to
update the password when it expired. The password I had
isn't working, I think my nephew may have played with the
computer and changed it.

I am getting suspicious pop up messages that look like
windows. One says that its presence means that my
computer is vulnerable to viruses and directs me to a
website.  Another is clearly pornographic.  

I keep getting pop up's from "messenger service" saying
my computer is wide open to be hacked and to go to
certain websites to download a patch, I have not opened
any of these, but when I went to put a patch on from

When I loaded xp home on my new laptop, I made a mistake
and changed the administrator account name to mine during
the inital setup.
When I log off the only user account I have is my own - no

  I previously posted a message where i was having
trouble with installing software, and discovered that the
trouble stemmed from the issue that there were 2
administrator accounts on my computer; the account with

when I install the firewall and virus protection offered
by my internet provider (bell sympatico) I am unable to
use any of the programs in the other user profiles except
one.  Anyone know why this happens?  Once I uninstall the

Has anyone found any speed issues with Intel PRO/100 M or VE Network cards
under xp?
Thanks
Regards

I recently upgraded my operating system from Windows XP
Home to Windows XP Pro on my Toshiba 5200 laptop.  After
upgrading, I tried to install XP SP1 but as soon as I
restart after the installation, I lose operation of both

Just a quick question for you: If I share a folder on a network (three PCs
all running XP Pro), is it possible for me (as the folder owner) to restrict
network access to that folder to only certain accounts on certain machines?
Regards

My daughter set the administrator password on Windows
XP.  She left for college, now she can't remember the
password and we can't install software.  
How do we reset the administrator password?

RoadRunner has an offering that requires the new version10 of Real Player
which, I read is supposedly less their historic nasties but not wholly
without a new slate of issues.
The requisite AdAware, Spybot, SpyWareBlaster as well as ZAPro and NAV are

PLEASE HELP!
I've had some recent performance trouble and I tried to
use "msconfig" to reduce the # of startup programs.  
However, when I try to run msconfig, nothing happens.  The

I'm currently using Simple File Sharing in a mixed XP
Pro/W98SE environment with a router/switch providing a
single shared internet connection. Essentially a home
network with no file server capabilities - basic