Upon noticing that my hard drive in my laptop was
going bad, i removed it and put it in a portable hard
drive case so that i could access its files via USB.
Unfortunately i do not have access to folders that

I have windows Xp pro, and I was wondering if I can
password protect a drive. Or maybe a folder.
Thanks
John

if yes, how
Thanks.

My new XP OS is bringing up this message:
"Remote Procedure Call terminated unexpectedly, windows
will shut down....."then gives a count down of one minute
and restarts my computer.

I am trying to make use of the runas feature in XP home to enable a user
(child) with limited account to run an application as a privileged
user.  The particular application will run properly from an account with

I just installed win xp pro using the ntfs option.  i just created two account (type: limited).  But now i wonder how do i ensure that these two accounts do not have axccss to   C:\   drive or any system folders.  I would also like for these two accounts to just be able to axcss ...

Why does this update keep installing on my machine WINXP home. It has auto installed for the last 3 days and when I just checked Windows Update it told me to install it again, it shows that it has been successfully installed each time in the log.

I have had to rebuid the same PC and I can not reactivate
XP. How do you do this and what does Microsoft expect you
to do in this situation?
Thanks,

How do you access the "Program Files" folder over a
network? The network is set-up as a workgroup and I can
access all other folders except it. I have set all the
permissions identical to other folders I can access. The

Is there a way that someone can block the administrator
account from adding users to a computer?

AS I am a bit confused on this can someone help?,
I have just changed from microsoft jvm, to sun micro jvm
as microsoft say they no longer  support microsoft jvm
anymore,I have sp1 already installed from when I

I upgraded my ofice XP with service pack 3.  when I
restarted the computer, I got an error message about  
missing or corrupt file c:\windows\system32\config\system
I foung a KB artical and completed step one.  This got

Should the files TFTP252 TFTP648 TFTP2616 should be in
the system32 folder.
in some instances, those files (TFTP with various
numbers) were mentioned as to be a virus related file and

Has anyone else had problems downloading the last
Microsoft security update?  I've tried and tried and it
fails every time!

Does anyone know how to edit the current_user folder
options in the registry? I need to edit the "open folders
in a new windows setting" on the general tab under browse
folders. Can't find it in the registry though..