Does anyone know how to overcome the problem of not
knowing your administrator password.  I have screwed up
my PC and now when I flash it up I get the option to log
on as a guest (very limited use) or the administrator. I

Help!!!  I sent Odysseus Marketing an email requesting help removing this.  I followed instructions to change Active X controls, now I cant even download Windows Updates.  It says only the administrator can do this, but I cant.  I also cant erase the history, offline content or ...

I'm running XP Home Edition w/NTFS set up.  When people
log in under a Limited Account programs loaded into
C:\Program Files\ will not run.  Using Windows Explorer
you can see the files.  From an Administrator Acct you

When I go to install software, I get an error msg telling
me that my computer is in use and locked.  It asks me for
a password to unlock it.  I never locked it (if I did it
was by accident) and don't know a password.  What do I

Is there a way to edit the registry of XP, so that all
users will have special admin rights. We have certain
programs that require that the uusers must run, but they
can not if there are not a power user or admin. I do not

I cannot logon any more, after deleting the domain and swithing to workgroup
1) How can I enter the domain in the logon screen? Is it \\domain\user
2) How can I create a local admin user through savemode? How can I enter savemode?

  I have a XP home edition. I wanted to give read only
access to other users so that its not possible for them
save any files to disk , install anything.So i created a
limited account. But still i am able to install software

While browsing the internet today, I received a pop up
from 'gator ewallet' even though I have a pop up
blocker.  Anyway, I tried to delete the program by going
to 'run-regedit'  and it automatically closes the window

i thought i was the administrator but i cannot change power schemes for my computer, it says access denied. what am i doing wrong?

I have Windows XP Professional (tablet edition)running on
my laptop.  I use to always logon as the Administrator
with no pw.  When I now try to logon I get the error
message "The local policy of this system does not permit

I reciently ran a bunch of microsoft updates on my system
to bring it up to date. I had not previously run many
updates due to dialup service kept disconecting. I now
have DSL so dicsonect and time are no longer an issue.

I can't seem to set up a password for my XP Pro machine. I
recently re-installed xp pro and I would like to be able
to set up a password. I know I've been doing it correctly
but when I re-start the machine the password screen

I have Windows XP pro. I wanted to install FP2000 server
extensions. I found out that I needed to install IIS.
Under help documentation on my computer about IIS
installation, it said I needed to install TCP/IP and

I would like to set up a password so other users are
unable to edit/delete files in the "temporary internet
files" folder under the Administor folder.  I am running
XP - does anyone know how to do this?