due to some problem that have been occuring on my pc, i had to disable the built in administrator account
i use the pc with an another account that i made with administrator privliges
for some reason this account is now a "guest account", i dont know how that happend
my pc now has ...

I've recently opened a internet cafe and I'd like to be able to restrict access to the computers. I'd like to be able to stop people from changing settings. Id like to restrict them from being able to install programs, shutdown the PC the whole lot
Where in XP pro can I change ...

My organisation recently implemented Win2003 SBS, which is our sole
Domain Controller across a 3-site WAN.
We've decided to add the Domain Users group to the local Admin group
on some XP Pro workstations at each of the 3 sites.

ALright thanks for that info regaurding how to get around
that access denied but how do i apply those settings to
multiple files because it only lets me do one at a time,
once i did it to the folder i have to do it to each

While downloading XP Updates after a crash, I recieved a message from McAfee that "COM Surrogate was trying to access the Internet, that this was a trojan. If so, How do I find it and delete the trojan? McAfee scan did not find anything, both with Sys restore off and in Safe mode ...

I keep getting a message that says "...has encountered a
problem and needs to shut down"  Whatever program,
whether it is Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer,
Microsoft Works, etc... will then shut down and I cannot

My brother pc stop working, first were the ps2 then it
did nothing, so we took the hard drive a put it in
another pc so he could get the data out, but he was using
windows xp home and I have the pro version and even log

I am running Windows XP Professional. I am using the
welcome screen without the need to use passwords to log
on. How to I continue using the welcome screen, but
require a password for each user that wants to log on to

i am trying to clear out everything on my computer and
start from scratch i was told to do a system recovery
where i would have to use my recovery discs to re do
everything. i don't know where to start. i already have

windows XP professional
every time i start my pc, the computer logs in to the administrator account
i had to disable the built in administrator account. now whenever i start the p
a message comes up that says  "your 'the administrator' account had been disabled",

I'm an administrator in a Win2000 (sp4) network with Winxp
(sp1 + hotfixes) clients. In our network we have used a
GPO to disable the access to the task manager.
When a user tries to start the task manager, the option to

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Forgive long post. A friend of mine asked me to look at her pc. This is a month old XP Pro SP1 gateway. She is getting permisson error msg when she goes to device manager. The exact msg is ... "you do not have sufficient security privileges to uninstall devices or to change ...

When I try and access my disk defragment I get an error message "windows cannot access the specified device,path, or file.  you mahy not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.  I am the system adminstrator, and I also tried to run it in safe mode.  Can someone ...

Have a serious problem.Seem to have got ther above virus
on my pc - it has infected the svchost.exe file ( under
c:/windows/system32/drivers ). My Norton virus has
detected that this file is corrupted but is unable to