I am the administrator account on my computer but I
forgot my password. Unfortunately, I didn't make a reset
disk. What can I do without deleting everything?
thnankz

I've recently set up Win XP on my computer, and have set up my account with
full administrator privileges. However, it seems to make all folders 'Read
only' and when I try to remove this attribute, it seems to accept the
instruction but then when I go back and look at the Properties ...

When I went to msconfig-startup,I found one item,
that had no name in the Startup or Command collum,
just this under the Location collum:
"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Window\CurrentVersion\Run"

   Sorry I have no idea if this is the correct forum but if it is not
please point me in the right direction - thanks. So here goes, I wish to
from within some VB6 code create a dial-up that has the ICF turned on no
matter the running PC's settings (assuming it is XP of course). I ...

MS Office 2003 can't access the registry, repeatedly asking for user initials on startup and in the case of Excel, displaying "cannot access the registry" error messages.
This method of security worked very well with office 2002, one the intial instalation box appeared, no other ...

Does anyone know how to configurate the home page on
Internet Explore 6 ?  I tried to set my home page as my
favorite web page when I start the Internet browser, but
it seems coming up with another web page everytime I open

After SP1a is downloaded and installed my computer locks
up after it has rebooted. The desk top comes up but the
mouse is frozen. I have to push the Microsoft key and use
the keyboard to uninstall SP1a. After that, everything

Our 6 year old son somehow put in a password on our XP home system.  We can
get into our main account just fine but if we are in one of the other
accounts and we want to switch back to our account it asks for this unknown
password.

my copy of windows keeps crashing/locking up but avg anti-
virus, trojen guarder, pest patrol, hijack this and
online tests all show that i have no known problem
the machine will also reboot for no known reason

I've just had winXP cause me a major headache. After
crashing I rebooted the machine, only to find that after
the "win XP" loading graphic left the screen I got the
message:-

Hi I was wondering if it was possible to log the time in
and time out of users accounts on my computer under their
account names. Just to show the time they logged on and
logged off. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in

Have recently been migrating workstations from NT4 to XP-
Pro. Some machines require additional apps added on top
of our basic XP configd image. However a number of these
(inlcuding Sophos on all machines) have been giving us

when i press ctrl+alt+del i get the error message "Task
Manager has been disabled by your administrator". This is
troubling, since only i have access to this machine. does
anyone know how to reenable it? running win xp pro

I've looked everywhere, in my local security policies and
everything.  I finally got my XP computer to show up on
my home network and when I tried to access it from my
win98 box I needed a password.  I've went through my

I need to unstore a saved password in IE6, using XPP.
It was saved in response to Windows asking if we wanted
to save, for future....
Now we need to remove as a security measure for the site