My Windows XP Pro has MSDE installed. System is set up for
auto logon for a restricted user. MSDE is not starting
when the system is logging On automatically. If I log off
and log on again with the same restricted user, it starts

How do I remove write protected and read only from files
that I am trying to save to either a flash disk or
another networked computer?  I am having a hard time
finding the answer.  Please answer asap.

Everytime I startup or shutdown my CPU usage is at 100%
percent,this just happened a few days ago and it's weird
because I can't find the problem in my running tasks,I
changed the Paging file several times,ran several test.I

Does any one know what the 180 search Assistant Alert is?

i lost my xp user by an accidental format of the booting
drive. i forgot to create the cerfied files which could
have been used to access the encrypted file. how can i
decrypt my files.

Home page overtaken by C:\spex\start.html
Tools-Internet options-Home page change doesn't work
(doesn't help). How to remove it?  Thanks

I have what I thought was the latest in protection and
yet about:blank continually resets my home page.  Anyone
have an answer
Don

Every time I try booting my PC I receive the following
error:
0xC0000221: UNKNOWN_HARD_ERROR
I have tried using chkdsk /r from the recovery console but

i installed  xp and now when i try ans opern regedti.exe
it tells me that system admin disabled it but i am the
only user how can i enable regedit

My laptop crashed and I moved my hard drive to another
laptop. I had an encrypted file (using Windows Explorer).
Now I can't open the file on my new computer. How do I
recover the file when my original computer/installation

I just bought a new Norton Internet Security and it says
that I need Service Pack 2.  I only have service pack 1.  
How do I go about getting that.  Thanking you in
advance.  Would appreciate any help I can get, as my anti-

I was hijacked and now i cannot make the  windows update with service pack one because it says that my key is not valid. The person who go into my pc changed all my registration information...so they must have changed so that the system doesn't recognize it. Can i do anything ...

We have a user who uses his own XP "home" laptop in opur oprganization for
work. He had a problem on his PC and appears to have lost some data. He had
someone reload the operating system and now the machine name is different
than what it used to be. When you browse his HD in ...

I received a virus but have managed to contain it.  
However the virus had changed my desktop wallpaper to a
security message with a link to a website wanting money
to remove it.

I'm having trouble doing my live update.  I can not access the Symantec site through live update.  I also can not get to the Symantec web site using a browser.  Any suggestions on how to deal with this?