I'm posting this again, as no-one seemed to pick up on it
yesterday.
Wonder if anyone else has had this problem. I'm logged in
with full admin privileges to WinXP Home.

I'm setting up 4 computer running Win Xp home for  school use and i what to
prevent pupils to delete files on c:\
I created a limited account for them, and an unlimited account for teacher
but it doesn't work, pupils are still able to delete system files!

I've had my XP computer for over a year and, being the only user, I haven't used the Administrator name and password. Now, when I attempt to shut donw,  I am receiving a message that the computer has been blocked and only the Administrator ( me) can unlock it. If I ever had a ...

Can't log into .net passport for hotmail. Keeps telling
me to enable cookies. Cookies are enabled and the privacy
report says no cookies were blocked or restricted. Any
ideas?

I need to share a folder on a computer with Windows XP 2002 Professional.
The problem is that I want to set specific rights, i.e. only certain users
should be able to access the folder. But in this version of XP I can only
set share or not share, and when I share it is an "Everybody

While using p2p downloading I've obviously got shared
files.  Only now when I use the p2p software it say'sI
have 13Gig of shared files. Again,obviously I don't want
this amount of shared access but have managed somehow to

How do you set one WEb page as the default when using
Windows XP.  I work in an educational setting and have not
been successful in setting a default web page.  Any
suggestions?

I hope someone can help. I booted up windows xp and all
characters on the operating system have been replaced
with nonsense characters - such as @#><"&#9562;&#934; - making it
impossible to navigate windows. Internet and email

"Backup" should be located in Accessories under System
Tools - I cannot locate this on Windows XP Home.

Windows XP Pro on a 1GHz Pentium IV.  I have been unable to install patches via Windows Update in awhile.  For awhile I was able to work around the problem by downloading and installing the updates manually, but one in particular hung even when installed manually, specifically on ...

 My computer has been hacked and im locked out of doing
anything about it i am unable to change mmc comands or
even uninstall can any one give me any ideas. The dll,s
this guy loaded on my computer coruppts any anti virus or

What are the default NTFS permissions in 2003? including registry
permissions.
and how does it differ for the different versions of windows 2003?
(Adv.server, entprise server, web server, etc).

I registered my xp and now it shows my name in my
files....How can I stop that and hide my Name????

I setup a regular user account on my XP machine. This user
does not have any administrator rights and does not have
the option to view computer management to add herself in
the local admin group.  She does not know the admin or my

I suspect someone is monitoring my emails. Is this possible? I have Windows XP Home Edition.