I have a home network using Microsoft Windows Networking, Simple File
Sharing, and a USRobotics 8200 Secure Storage Router that is both a file and
print server. It is running as a workgroup, NOT a domain. I am able to set up
my two WinXP Home machines to access the network ...

I've had it with this error. Any ideas? It's happening to all of my Windows
XP Pro SP2 workstations in connection with a Windows 2000 Server.
The Security System could not establish a secured connection with the server
cifs/SERVER.  No authentication protocol was available.

I know that we have a virus on my friends computer- its real slow and when
you click for Ex start the window open then disappears or when you click on a
program  it never opens- also  I download the AVG virus scan said it found
trojan horse ,it finished the scan  said the ...

I aquired a Toshiba lap top, model 1410 computer from my sister, which she
has not used in a long time.  It has windows XP pro on it.  She set up a  
windows log on password on it, and never created a password  disc. She since
forgot the pass word, and I have tried everything I ...

ok here is the thing, I cant figure out why windows started doing this but  
it wont start the windows firewall/ICS services automaticly during bootup. I
have to got to firewall setting and if i click to see them i get this error
notice.

I have scanned my computer using AVG 7.0 and it has found a virus called
BackDoor.Iroffer.BD.
I have checked numerous sites and cannot find this type of BackDoor.Iroffer
virus. I cannot remove it or heal it. It looks like it is in a pretty

I work in a public library and am working on a Windows-based method of
providing timed Internet sessions for the public as a replacement for
some commercial software.  Basically, I want to replace Internet
Explorer with a VBscript I've written.  Using networked profiles and

What is the difference between the Domain Profile and Standard Profile
settings in Group Policy under Computer Config > Admin Templates > Network >
Windows Firewall ?

"Generic Host Process for Win32 Services encountered and needed to close"  
szAppName : svchost.exe szAppVer : 0.0.0.0 szModName : unknown
szModVer : 0.0.0.0 offset : 00000000
I get this message on about every 3rd start up at home.  I ran virus and

I have a question about Microsoft Security Baseline Analyzer.  The problem is
it keeps telling me that it cannot confirm 1 security update
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-009.mspx and I'm sure
I downloaded this before.  Is this just an error or something.  ...

Dear group:
My laptop is toast, but the hard drive on it is OK--thank God!!!  On
it I have a couple encrypted files but I can't unlock them.  Is there
any way to boot the xp OS on this disl from another computer or else

playing in my firewall I was tracing an alert, then ran a scan,  the  results
showed that there is UDP traffic on an expired connection , ( I do have an
etherlink  local lan area connection that i had  disabled  ) can i uninstall
or remove this connection so i do not get the ...

Hi -- Some spam was inserted on my son's computer -- a message about the
dangers of spyware. It has a black background, takes up the whole screen with
a "Danger" warning, and I can't get rid of it.  Otherwise the computer
functions normally. At the bottom, there's a link for ...

I am trying to resolve several issues on my machine but this one I found by
accident.In the computer admin a/c, in safe mode, under user profiles my a/c
is listed at 140mb, but in user profiles, on my a/c, it is listed at 94.3mb,
all other a/c's were the same.Where did 45.7mb ...

I am new to win xp and have 5 diff users on my pc, how can I make it so all
folders/games/files are shared??