I have just got a new laptop with Win XP Pro through my
company (migrating from Win 2k).  Everything was going
fine until I had to change the domain logon password.  
The system would not let me change the password.  So call

I can logon to the machine with administrator, or my
account, but the primary user logon just sits there and
indicates its "applying settings". Can I recover with last
known good config?

Because of security concerns on our network, we would like to remove users from being local admins on their PC. If i use power users is there anyway to get around the problem of software installation that modifies system files and the ability to run norton antivirus and also ...

I've got XP Home and can't disable the Simplified
Security 'feature'.  The instructions set in KB 307874
don't work as the 'Use simple file sharing checkbox
doesn't exist.  Does anyone know where in the registry

I'm using a script to deploy web sites on IIS and am having grave
difficulties with the CACLS command on Windows XP Professional.
I need to give read/write permissions to the local IUSR_<Computername>
account to my web site folder and the sub folders within it e.g.

I am configuring some computers running Windows XP
Professional for installation and need to allow normal
users to write to the registry when some programs are
run.  I can do this by granting them Power user rights,

I have an asp page that uses the FileSystemObject to retrieve folder structure information on a virtual directory located in the inetpub/wwwroot folder on a Windows XP pro box.  
I've verified that the code is correct on another machine, but when executed on the win xp pro box, ...

I am generally confident that if someone is seriouse about getting the data
from my computer then it would have already have been gone.
I am guessing the firewall in xp is there, just like we have locks on our
doors, to keep out the honest people, part-time crooks.

how do i stop all the annoying popups

i've been getting a very annoying "Microsoft Internet
Explorer-You've got Spyware installed" Pop-up everytime I
open internet explorer, not to mention no matter how
often i change the default web-page to "Yahoo Japan" it

I know a user downloaded a bad file. I also know when it
was installed. Is there a way to search for files based
on install date?

Just had my XP Home PC rebuilt.  However, the
Administrator account is now missing and I cannot install
any programs.  Also, when I go to User Accounts in Control
Panel, the only account showing is the one I'm logging on

i have windows xp professional installed on my computer.  
for some reason, the administrator password no longer
works.  
the laptop is from a defunct company, but it has my old

why does OE not let me open attachments and how can i open
the ones that OE wont?

Hello, folks !
As I found out I had the Blaster virus in my computer, I
went to the RPC Service and disabled it from my profile.
But... the problem is that now my modem doesn't work