I read about it in Help and being a french little old
lady don't understand anything.  What I think I
understand is that I install the Windows Update -
malicious... and it scans right there and removes

I am using the following command line the disk cleanup tool in Scheduled
Tasks: "c:\windows\system32\cleanmgr /d c: /sagerun:1". Is there anyway to
set this so that it creates an entry in Event Viewer when it's done? Or is
there already some type of log file that is automatically ...

I think I am being attacked.  Here is the problem:
Every evening at 8:11 p.m. my computer starts beeping for about 30 seconds.
It stops as soon as I disconnect from the internet.  If I set the computer
clock back an hour the beep does not occur when the clock says 8:11 p.m. but

Strange situation. My C:\ drive is shared out under admin share C$ with
permissions to access given to local admins group, and to my login acct on
the domain.
When any user from any client on the domain does run, \\mylaptop\c$, then

Does anyone know why XP reports failure object access audits on the
NetBios over TCPIP device?  I've given full control permissions to the
user in the registry that the audit entry includes but it hasn't
helped.  I also get failed object accesses on /device/netbiossmb (the

I want to get into my daughter account to see what she is upto.  How do I
find out her password or logon without it?

Morning,
Upgrading a clients xp home system. Was working fine apart from a lot of
hard drive activity due to insufficient RAM
After adding more RAM windows displays the following error at login screen.

My pc, which runs Windows XP, has been hit by the sasser worm. I've tried
everything that the Dell tech people have told me to do but nothing seems to
work.  When I turn my computer on, I get the message "Press any key to boot
from CD."  If I don't do anything, the Windows XP ...

I am in the process of creating a scheduled task to run disk defrag
afterhours. The command line I am using is "defrag c: -f -v filename.txt".
How to I adjust this line so that the file name automatically consists of the
phrase "dfrgLog" plus the current date, as in ...

My notebook has XP SP2 loaded and has joined a Domain of a corporate network.
Whether I am online or offline, if I logon as domain/username, Xp will not
allow me to turn OFF the firewall. The radio button that says "Off (Not
Recommended)" is just greyed out.

my pc is p4 xp pro. mccafee av,firewall, internet security and spybot
s&d,adaware installed.
learnt about svchost etc from this site and "Peetm" suggession is really
useful.

My IE default search page gets sets to www.couldnotfind.com/.....
Even though I have removed /Program Files/ISTbar/ISTsvc.exe, no such file is
found in my system,
I searched in symantec site also could not find any useful info,

I have very very stramge entries in my registry and event viewer that are
adding up to no good.
I have talked with Microsoft today, and what we tried did not solve the
problem.

Since installing SP2, which went perfectly BTW, I have been getting this
warning in internet explorer "Security Bar" (see below). This happens with
HTML scripts that I am testing, and although I can have it allow the script,
I think that it is already to late for the script to ...

Can someone guide me into doing something pretty basic (probably foolish in
any other situation too):
How can I set up a PC running Windows XP Pro to automatically log on to the
Administrator account (which does have a set password).