This AM I got the "update available" notice, I clicked
the icon and nothing happened.
I reset my automatic update time window, the selected
time passed with no event.

Does anyone know how to change the User Name on the
window login window when you first start the computer?
Just got married and would like to correct my last
name.Changeing in the user accounts does not change the

To whom it may concern,
My hard drive crashed and I had a company put in a new
hard drive(C:) and keep the old hard drive(F:) as a back
up. My operatinb system WinXP Home is on the new hard

Hello Somebody knows the method to deactivate (or disable) "safe mode"  (F8)
to the starting of Windows?
Thank's
Josep

SP 1 downloads normaly but fials to install with a
message "installation failure, see your administrator"
Any help welcome
Ashok

Looking into my user accounts,
there I am,and there is a guest account,(OFF)
but then I found an account I never put
there,and have not seen before.

I recently installed my Windows XP Pro again because I had a very bad virus
infection in my computer. I started by formatting the system partition. I
have my documents in other partition and to some of them I used Windows XP:s
EFS to encrypt those files.

My system crash and had to reinstall windows XP after
formating. Unfortunatly some of my files/folders in my 2nd
partition had been encrypted and i had also not backed up
my certificate entries.

I have installed SP2.  I have unselected the option to notify me if
there is a problem with the firewall.  I have an external firewall and
do not use the firewall built into Windows XP.  But, each time I
restart the machine, the check is selected again.  It does not

if i try to run my registry editor i keep getting a error
message telling me that registry editing has been
disabled by your administrato.i suspect this was the work
of a hacker as i have found an anonymous logon to my user

hi can anyone help me
i am useing the gpedit to tie down my family microsoft
system i have turn the run cmd off and the gpedit setting
so they could not get to turn the settings back on.

how do i get to group policies within windows xp home as
i cant seem to find it anywhere can anyone help

What are the following folders for:
C:\WINDOWS\Provisioning
C:\WINDOWS\Registration
C:\WINDOWS\repair

When I try to install a program we find the message of
reference.
What I Can do? Please help.
santosi38@libertypr.net

I just heard that Automatic Update needs to be shut off because someone
has figured out a way to send virus through it. I think this is BS
because they also said that it won't be corrected until Sept. 15
Anyone else heard of this???