We had a paerson install security on our network and now
he is will not give us our ADMIN password to our server
or desk tops. We have an atty. and police involved but no
access to our system. Is there a way to reset ADMIN

I am having trouble decrypting a folder full of
pictures.  I was copying the folder plus contents to
another drive and the sending drive failed during the
exchange.  I can see thumbnails of some of the pics but

this question could of been asked before, so forgive me for asking again... :o
If I have a third party firewall (free version), should I still enable the XP firewall?
Thanks in advance for any advice

i bought a brand new machine last week and ever since i got it home i havnt been abled to attach ANY kind of file to email
we also found a "nachi b" virus which has now been quarantined and deleted (i think
we had xp re installed but still the comp freezes when trying to attach in ...

I got my computer 2 years ago and the company installed my software windows XP now i re-installed windows XP without refomatting the hard drive and it won't let me re-install my internet connect through Bell simpatico.  I need to go to administrative tools and re-start remote ...

I was wondering if my windows XP is registered or not I
did register another computer with the same product key
and now it seems that there are no updates coming onto
this computer. I uninstalled window XP from the other

I am using my personal laptop with XP for consulting
work, my client is a huge fortune 500 company and does
updates of its desktop systems all the time.
I want to have internet access only and do not want them

I am using my personal laptop with XP for consulting
work, my client is a huge fortune 500 company and does
updates of its desktop systems all the time.
I want to have internet access only and do not want them

I'm trying to determine the best way to secure files on my local network.
Here is my setup.
Primary XP pro computer connected via CAT5 to linksys
Wireless laptop (802.11g, AES encrypt, mac filtering, ssid disabled)

OK, so I had a problem that required me to start from
scratch.  I use Windows XP Professional, so I backed-up
my harddrive using Backup, re-formatted, re-installed
Windows, restored most of my files.  Then, I discovered

HOW DO I DELETE A USER

ASR fails on a system which has successfully created sets
in the past with the following message:
The files for the recovery diskette could not be created.  
The operation was aborted.

I've encountered a big problem with a friend's machine
which may have been infected with the Blaster/Nachi worm.
It was definitely infected with the Blaster worm when it
was first spread (on a pirated copy of XP), so I enacted

I am running XP Home Edition.
I ran a McAfee scan today and found a virus located in
c:/windows/system32/drivers/svchost.exe but was not able
to clean it. I can not delete the file.

Help. my virus scan alert says that I have contracted
W32/Gaobot.wrom.gen.d      It will not let me clean or
delete the file and yet is says it must be replaced.
There is no replace button. What do I do?