Something happened to the C drive on my old computer
where it would not boot.  I took it out of the machine
and put it into my newer machine to save the data on it.  
Everything seems to be accessable on it with the

Hello Can anyone tell me why my ISP which is cable, routinely does port scans on my computer?  I do use an alternate DNS which I register with dhcp server
Thank You

I get the following error when starting up my computer,
right when the login window appears:
svchost.exe - Application Error
The instruction at "0x7728c740" referenced memory

How  do i stop a second (restricted) user of windows xp accessing the internet
TIA
Parlo

Computer Manager has a red X on Local Users and Groups
preventing me from creating new user accounts.
Help!

Computer had a corrupted Registry and would not boot.  So
I reinstalled windows xp home over the existing
installation.  However the user profile under documents
and setttings had the private folder protection enabled.  

Can someone explain how I can set up an account for my
two young kids where they cannot open anything except for
a few specific programs and possibly internet explorer?  
I have a computer I let my kids use for their games, my

Annoying popups, my homepage changing everytime I open IE,
computer running very slow.
Anyone give me a VERY good spy 'killer', 'bot',
whatever.... they think is the best solution for this.

When trying to access a computer within our peer to peer network I receive
the error: "You do not have appropriate access rights to this computer".
How do you establish these access rights?
Thanks,

I have several users on my puter, but the other users rarely log on, how can I make XP log onto my account automatically without removing the other users and in a reversible way should another user come along.

I upgraded to XP and now my Norton's won't work. I'm sure
there is an easy fix but can't get anyone at Norton!!!
Thanks,PJT

For some time I've been questioning the use of AV software. I work in IT
support and I really couldn't count the number of perfectly good Windows
installations I've seen borked by Norton AV or any of the other bloated
virus suites. The performance hit from installing these things ...

When I went online yesterday on my computer, I saw a pop-up Windows Messenger saying that "A newer version of messenger is available, you must download in order to continue." with two actionable buttons: "Yes" and "No". I sensed this might be something weird and have not clicked ...

For a month or so I've not been able to open any
attachments. I use OE 6.0- will the patch from Feb 2003
solve this problem??

I installed the beta SP2.  The Windows Firewall service
is set to automatic, but the service will not start.  
When I try to start the service, I receive the
error "Error 0x80004015: The class is configured to run