My friend forgot his password and have not created a
password reset disk. I don't have an administrators
account on his computer. Can I remove his profile by
using safe mode? Which files do I have to delete?

Okay I have a weird one.  A user is reporting to me that every so often
their Windows XP Pro machine will just log itself off.  They will go to use
it and it will be back at the CTRL-ALT-DEL screen.  All programs are closed
when they log back in so this is not just the screensaver ...

I have downloaded all the windows updates for XP from
windows catalog and put them onto a c.d. is there any way
i can run the windows update program on other computers
but instead of downloading the updates from the internet,

Every time Outlook 2002 sends/receives to the e-mail
server I get the "Network Password" prompt. How do I stop
this. It's driving me crazy! I'm using Windows XP and
Office XP.

In Internet Options, for specifying which internet
program to use, the only option that I have choices
for is HTML editor. All other options - E-mail,
Newsgroups, Contact list - do not have any options.

I have tried to download a patch from the microsoft site
to sort the windows hole I heard about on the news.I got
the message "there may be a time discrepancy". So I put
the time on the clock right and tried again. Now there is

Hi how do i get to limit how much harddisk space people use on my computer (diffrent usernames)? Please help?

I'm experiencing a problem whereby files that are copied to a CDR
or CDRW are being tagged with creation AND modification registering
the current date. I'm using XP Professional.
I've also noticed that at times I've had to reboot the computer to actually

<SNIP>
Microsoft is investigating how part of its Windows operating system
source code found its way onto the net.
Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla said it was not known how the chunks of

I'm a long time user of Win 98 and WinME that just switched to WinXP Pro.
When I was using 98 and ME, I had a batch file that would run on system
start up that would delete cookies, index.dat, temp files, etc...
I would like to do this on XP also, but I don't know if it will work or ...

Can anyone help me
In the last few days I have been receiving increasing
amount of spam pop-ups in the form of grey boxes with an
OK button at the bottom. At the top of the page is

C:\Program Files\Outlook Express
I have uninstalled the program and removed al its key but
when I deleted the disastures program it is being put back
by one of the system programs very agrivating (anser is

How can I stop unsupported software installs. Some users
keep loading software from their CD's, Floppy's and from
the Net. How can I stop this?

I've already posted several messages to this and other
groups that after applying this update you can loose the
conection to outside world after some time of browsing
the web. It's turned out that the dns table gets flooded

is there a way to find the product key from my cd I have
lost it and need to reinstall windows