My computer was working fine yesterday (on windows XP Pro) and today I
turned it on and it said that it was missing NTLDR and wants to restart the
computer.  I try using te recovery console but whatever retard designed it
is...well...a retard.  It is useless.  I would really like ...

I have winexit.scr configured to logoff users on a shared PC after 8 hours.
But, I need the PC to also do a screensaver lock if the user walks away from
the PC for say, 10 minutes. So, when they come back to the PC they can unlock
it, and resume working.

[I asked already in microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support, without
a solution, so am cross-posting. Hope someone here knows the answer -
thanks.]
I have a Dell Latitude CPt C333GT loaded with XP Pro which will not

Hey all,
I've installed XPSP2 on a couple of PCs which fixed a slow login
(Netware/AD) problem I have had, but it has caused heaps of other issues:
1. Network connections disappearing (MS's fixes for this don't work).

Every time I do a Windows update, it tells me that I need
to install the security update for Windows XP service
Pack 1 (Q811114). I have downloaded and, so it tells me,
successfully installed this update about five times now.

When I try to log in to certain web sites using Internet Explorer I get a
message that says " your current security settings do not allow you to send
html forms". How  would I change those settings so I could send html forms.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.    Thanks Alan

I ran trendmicro online virus and security scan and got the following message
.. but I could not delete it .. I tried going on their webpage but to no
avail.
Has anyone else experienced the same?

Hi, I'm trying to implement a security policy whereby screensaver is
activated after 10 minutes of activity and is password protected. I also wish
to DISALLOW the users from disabling this password protect function.
Is there a way of doing this?

i've want to change my home page.... every time i try i get the same thing i
can't due to the system adminstrator. i'm the adminstrator and i can't figure
this out what can i do???

I am an administrator on a fairly tightly controlled network.  We use the
"Run only allowed Windows applications" option in our Group Policies and then
list all the executables which are permitted. Recently we installed Office
2003 and added, among others, WINWORD.EXE to our list ...

I have always had the guest account off and never used it. But I was
surprised when I ran Belarc Advisor to see that the guest account had been
logged onto two days ago?
I then logged onto the guest account this morning and belarc now shows that

Is it recomended to turn on and use the XP Firewall on workstations
even if our network sits behind a router with it's own Firewall?  Will
this cause problems? Until the last XP service pack, I only used the
XP firewall when connecting from home or on the road. Now all

I run a network at a school.  We are upgrading from Windows 98 and 2000 to
XP.  On 2000, it was my practice to use MMC policy control to turn of
registry editing and MMC Author Mode access (along with a lot of other
stuff).  When I needed to get back in to MMC, I had a registry ...

We've had a need to let a certain class of users be power users, and of
course they've done evil things.
I'd like to detect and remove Yahoo's toolbar automatically. Has anyone had
any experience with this? Google's coming up uncharacteristically dry

Windows XP Pro SP2
It's a stand alone computer, with just one user (administrative rights)
account. I want to lock or password protect some of my folders (such as my
documents) instead of encrypting  or hiding them. Does Microsoft offer such