Within the past three months I purchased a new laptop
with Windows XP on it.  I encrypted several folders under
my current User Name to protect their contents.  Since
then I have attempted to access them time and time again

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I receive the following error in a Window Pop Up:
0x8007007a: The data area passed to a system call is too
small.

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I have WinXP home and i was wondering why i cant encrypt files when i try the button is always grayed out i have an admin account is this because of home or am i not getting something

I'm trying to download the latest security updates for
Windows XP Home Edition.  At the end of the download the
download window never closes--it says that 21.7 MB of 21.7
MB have been downloaded, but that it estimates two minutes

Loaded new version XP home and (stupidly) went to get
latest updates without starting firewall (Q: why isn't it
on by default?) rapidly resulting in numerous blaster-type
worms. Have stopped/deleted them all (after starting the

I'm trying to repair a PC where the user has lost their
password and tried to be suave and disabled the
administrator account, as well as changing the admin
password to something they can't remember.  Basically, I

I did a system restore to remove a pesky trial program and
now I can't log in and neither can the administrator. The
computer is a "hand-me-down" that is part of a domain.
When I try to log on it says my user name or password is

Hey everybody,
I use the internet and shut down my computer and then
when I start it again, here is what happens: my homepage
on my internet explorer 6.0 is changed and my favorites

I have the same problem: I frivolously added a password
in Windows XP Home Edition, and then also made my files
password protected. Immediately (the very first time)I
tried to log in under my administrative privleges, the

Hello All
I have Windows XP Desktop and after installing the 2003 administration tools, several objects within the Group Policy management have disappeared (Scripts;logon,logoff, Internet Explorer Maintenance, etc).  Does anyone know how to get them back?  Microsoft as usual ...

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I would like to compare the settings of two different computers
I thought that I could do that in "Security Configuration and Analysis" but I ran in to a problem
I can only analyze templates (.inf-files) and I don't know how I can produce a template from my current settings

How do you remove and disable permently or at least temp.
Group Policies from Windows XP. I unable to run mmc also
because of the current policy in place.
Thank you in advanced

Hi and thanks again for your time;
I know it's too long of a letter but felt I needed to
give a history to get some help,
One question that would help me a great deal if I cant

I manage a group of XP machines that are set to download
their Windows Updates automatically. For several
administrative reasons, these machines can not be set to
automatically install their updates. However, I would