After the Firewall with XP Pro was Enabled I have software
that detects if I have a firewall or not.  Now, is there a
way to test the Firewall?
Brian

Kindly let me know whether there is a way to protect a
folder created by the user with a password and how to
enable it?

MICROSOFT!!!!  Why are you bombarding us with all these
pop-ups?  They bear your corporate id, are worthless to me
and I can't use my pc at all because of them.  I can't
believe you're doing this - advertising?  Poor choice of

Microsoft windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 1
I just run the Baseline Security Analyzer on this machine.  One report was like this
Security updates that are out of date are marked with a yellow

I have some adware on my PC which neither Spybot S&D nor
Ad-aware 6.0 can find.  Norton Anti-Virus 2004 found the
adware, but is unable to delete it.  So armed with
Symantec's adware manual removal information, I'm going to

I use Atomic Clock to keep my PC in sync, but W32time on
the server updates all the PC's every 45 minutes with the
**WRONG** time.
Our IT guy's solution was "remove atomic clock."

MY HUSBAND HAS TAKEN OVER MY COMPUTOR AND PUT HIMSELF AS
THE ONLY ADMINISTER AND HAD THE NERUVES TO CHANGE ME TO A
LIMITED USER OF WHICH WE ALL KNOW THAT I CANT DO ANYTHING
NOW.  PLEASE HELP HOW DO I CHANGE MY ACCOUNT BACK TO

Every time I try to update the smart link thing on XP, I
get a BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH.

When I bring up taskmanager, the tabs at the top of the
taskmanager window are missing. Makes using taskmanager
really difficult.
If anyone has any ideas about solving this problems,

I just upgraded several Windows 2000 computers on our
2000 domain (2003 controllers)and after the upgrade I can
no longer remotely manage any computer. The registry
won't open remotely, event viewer says "access denied"

everytime my computer starts up, it starts loading windows.
Then a blue screen comes up saying unmountable boot
volume.  I have done everything that it said to do to fix
it, and it doesn't work.  It won't even let me go into

How can I save Windows Updates to CD so if I have a problem I can re-install them without spending ages online downloading them again.

I want to stop my desktop screen from going back to user
screen after it is idle.  How do I do this?

I am Having trouble removing the above vitus from my system, I have tried anti-virus software, but
it is still active. Do you have any suggestions?
Many thanks
Liam

I purchased a computer from Ebay, and the characters are  
in Chinese or otherwise Asian language. How can I correct
this?
My computer is a Sony running xp pro