I have four user account set up, inc myself as administrator. I whish to
give other users access to the Outlook express address book. Does anyone
know how to give them access to it. I have tried windows help, but I can't
seem to be able to find anything

I have a xp professional install on a pc and it is part of a workgroup.
The user has forgotten the password and it seems that there is only the
users profile on the machine. Any ideas on how to change or logon to the
machine.

I installed XP on my mothers computer with a disk I had previously used
and the installation went through ok.  However, went it goes to load I
get a error message telling me it cannoct accurately check the license
and gives me an error code 0x80070002 and then shuts windows down  ...

After I installed the MS AntiSpyware beta, I noticed that everything ran
slower.  This was particularly surprising, because I deactivated the three
agents when I installed it.  When I activate the three agents, everything
runs even slower.

My computer sometimes reboots if I bump the desk, so I save my work offten
and just deal with it. Until recently it has been a little inconvenient.
Then one nite it won't reboot,
I turn off automstic reboot and it says "log on validation error or

I need to put NTFS EFS files on a USB external drive and then be able to
read and use those files (with a password, of course) when that USB
drive is plugged into another computer.
I've created the drive and EFS encrypted files, and they work -- on the

Is there ZAK (Zero Administration Kit) for Windows XP ? or similar tools to lockdown the XP so that user is not able to delete files, change the settings & etc. Any web links for reference?

As I'm guessing many of you already know, Windows XP SP2 logs the origin of
downloaded files, and blocks files from other computers. I want to disable
this logging, and remove the blocks, since I find it quite annoying to have
to remove the blocking from each and every file to ...

We have a P3 pc that was win98 upgraded it to xp pro has all windows updates
inlcuding sp2.  We have a user loging into the PC under the domain, We set
that user up by maping to a couple of drives set up her email profile put
some shortcuts to her desktop and of course add ...

I am reposting this in the hope that someone from Microsoft will respond or
someone who has seen the same problem occur after performing an upgrade from
Win2k to WinXp.
Several systems which have been converted from Windows 2000 to Windows XP

Have installed, un-installed, & installed about 3 times,
the 2004 version, to no avail,  cannot open any icons,
either on the desktop, system tray, or in 'Start'>'all
Programs', just won't open. Have even tried doing a scan

Was having a hardware problem and the manufacturer's tech support suggested
deleting a certain key if it was present and reinstalling the hardware.  I'm
a technical user, quite comfortable with modifying the registry but I've
never come across this.  I tried to delete the key and ...

using the PC-Cillin firewall which is bloIve just built my own machine,
installed XP service pack 2 and fully updated it from the update website but
am receiving an alert from my firewall saying it has blocked an attack and
that there is an LSASS exploit , ms-04-011 refers. I ...

I noticed my system slowing down recently. I have NAV & Firewall, Adaware and
the betaversion of MS anti spyware all of which are kept up to date and none
of which indicated any virus problems.
As a further check I tried running Trend Sysclean. I downloaded Sysclean and

Has anyone else noticed that Steve Gibson's (Shield's Up) web site is down.
I wonder if he is being attacked again!