While watching defrag's status bar, I caught a glimps of
the name of a file it was decompressing:  hamat
cefotaxime.  Is this some dopey file I looked up about
antibiotics, or is it something more sinister?  Anyone

hello
I have a user who runs a cognos application which exports
into PDF/Adobe. At the stage that this excutes it tries
to run the activex script and seems that windows is

Sometimes I get an error referencing an RCP error and it
shuts down my system.  Any ideas on what this could be?

In my office we need to password-protect many files - is
it possible to enable a password for entire folders
instead of each document individually?

One day I opened a forward and it sent me a virus{s} and
since that day my internet tool bar has been rearranged,
popups keep coming up and my computer can just be in idle
and then just restart itself without me making it!

I have setup 4 user accounts in XP. I am the administrator, the other 3 are Limited Users. The problem being that every time they log in the following message appears about ten or twelve times ERROR Access is denied. Each time you OK and acknowledge the message, as I say another ...

When deleting files they do not go to the recylce bin and
the disk space is not freed up! Turning off recycle bin
enables files to be deleted and recover the disk space.
Has anyone else got this problem? I suspect it's a

Hi, I am having a strange problem.  I just installed
WinXP for a user in our Atlanta office.  It's a brand new
build with all the service packs/updates installed.
However, (and this only happens to our laptops) I had to

I suspect a virus caused umpteen popups and windows would
hang, or reboot spontaneously.  Then got problems logging
in, got random messages about hardware changes that made
no sense, or messages that others were logged onto the

I am running Windows XP Professional SP2. I've got my own AV program and was wondering how I can add it to the Security Centre so Windows will monitor it...

Does anyone know is there is a way to make it so that ONLY
the user can change their own password?  I need to make it
so that my password cannot be changed by anyone but me.

I am trying to set permissions for certain files and
folders on Win XP Professional, but am unable to do so.
When I right click on the folder and click on properties,
I don't see the Security tab. What I see is the Sharing

   I have users set up on Windows XP Pro, and have given some of them logon
hours using the "net user" command series (typed at a command prompt) (or
see "logon hours" under Help).  My problem is that the option to force
logoff when hours expire doesn't seem to work - as long as ...

When I try to run my antivirus, it won't run due to the
fact that when it tries to log onto symantec.com, it will
not. When I go directly to that page it will not open the
page either. All the rest of the internet works fine. I

I switched my laptop from logging on the school domain to my home office workgroup.  Everything went well and after it found my workgroup and stored all the settings, I was asked to restart my computer which I did.  Now I cannot get back in because it asks me for some username ...