I am working on an associate's laptop who is no longer
with the company, and I am having a problem logging on.  
I do not have her password or the administrator password
that was used on her computer.  Can you please advise on

Had the sasser worm and reinstalled all software. I
cannot now set a firewall on my internet connection. I
right click on the connection and try to select
properties to set the firewall.  Nothing happens

I have a problem where upon startup, XP goes
through 'normal' booting until it reaches 'Windos is
starting up' blue page and the hard drive stops processing
and the page just hangs.

The Program Files directory contain subfolders
titled "microsoft frontpage" and "xerox" both of which
are spelled in lower case letters.  The folders cannot be
deleted in normal mode.  Although they can be deleted in

When I run Windows update it never says there are any new
updates to install. I know there are because my other XP
pro machine gets them. I have the machine set to download
them automatically but nothing ever downloads. In the

Tasklist command, could be use with many parameters but som of them don´t work, for example the filters availabl
In command line (cmd) type :     tasklist /fi "STATUS eq RUNNING"      and i´ll bring you a filter error, while that´s one of the examples contained in help inf
Any ...

Hi Folks, I have notice that whenever I log on to my computer, under my account, I get a message saying I have some unread mails or messages. Can anyone tell me how to access this messages so I could delete them, they seem to be piling up

It never fails,everytime I download the top 3-4 Spyware-
Adware programs,I end up with a bunch of cling-ons,
so what's the use in using them?
The most persistend little bugger "SpywareNukerInstaller"

This is what I found,when going to
regedit,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
navigate to

Hi. I was unable to start my system because I inadvertently
deleted ntldr from the root directory.
I tried to run the Recovery Console from the cd but either I
didn't write my password down or it didn't prompt me to

I am using Windows XP with Norton Personal Firewall. I am scrupulous about
downloading any updates for those programs and all others I have which
relate to security.
Very recently, the firewall program has been alerting me with very great

Share-to-Web Namespace Daemon .
WhenUSearc
eMailEncryptio
OSSProx

i recently had to switch my \Windows\ folder to my 2nd
hard drive because of some errors, and i wanted the files
from the 1st hard drive copied over from \Documents and
Settings\ but my user account \Jon\ had been protected,

My internet goes off line after 5 minutes, I changed
something in the settings but don't know how to go back
to it.   Also how do I check my out look express on
someone else computer.

hello, my issue is that i have 2 hard drives one for my
OS and applications, the other for everything else (my
pictures, my documents, etc.).  
unfortunately i had to re-format my OS hard drive leaving