please can someone help me, i have my boyfreind on the phone at the mo,
he has a packard bell computer, with windows xp home edition, we have
tried a number of things, the problem is he has come home tonight and
tried to access the computer, he does not have a password setup and it

I am not sure if MS or IE or McAfee is doing this.  I have been downloading
a  lot of files for my PSP program.  I have notices in properties it is
saying the file is blocked and I can unblock by clicking etc.
I don't know where this block is coming from or what limitations it is

I am trying to encrypt a folder but I get a messege that says the p.c. is not
enabled to do so. How do I enable it ?

Recently I accidently changed the domain of a computer at work to
"workgroup" and now I cannot log in at all because it says the user does not
exist on the domain.  But I cannot change the domain now because if you press
the options button the "log on to:" is no longer an option. ...

my recycling bin icon is full, and nothing shows when i open it but when
i choose to empty it, it asks if i want to delete my "WINDOWS"
folder....i've never had this problem before...can somone help me...

I've been trying to get an EFS encrypted file located on a user's
machine available to another user.  Both machines are in the domain,
NTFS permissions are wide open, and all relevant users' EFS
certificates have been imported and show up both in the "Details"

Every once in a while I get the following error:
WDSCAN.EXE - Corrupt file
The file OR directory C:\$Mft is corrupt and unreadable. Please run
the Chkdsk utility.

I have a pc with xp pro sp2 where i cannot enable/disable firewall, it is
controlled by domain group policy. I log on with a user with admin rights on
the domain and local machine, with gpo i can  enable/disable firewall, but I
want to control that from the local machine, how can ...

Is there a way to let local users of a computer have printer driver
installation rights without making them a member of the admin group?

I'm in the process of upgrading all my Win2K machines to XP Pro.  My plan
has been to physically install a new hard drive (with the old hard drive
removed), install XP on the new drive, set it up according to my security
requirements, and then add the old drive back in as a slave ...

Can someone point me to a link or a document that will explain me the
difference betweem those 2 groups in Windows XP: Power user and domain user.
I need to know the right power user groups has compare to regular domain
user.

I would like to be able to encrypt a file/folder on one machine and access
it from another machine on the LAN; however this is in a workgroup
environment; i.e., there is no Active Directory and no domain. I'd hoped
that the normal workgroup logon (using same password and Userid) ...

At the Windows Update Page, eight security updates are identified as
being required. These were downloaded but an error message posted
saying that Windows was unable to install them.
Now it appears as if they are not being re-downloaded but merely

The skype messenger is violating the XP security/Firewall. Even after
removing from the exception list, skype automatically launches by adding
itself to the exception list.
Another bad thing, even after denying the privilege to launch, skype

I have a situation where I would like add to the windows registry an entry
for "Primary DNS Suffix" remotely without logging off the system.  The system
is running a TV Channel, so I cannot stop the system to make the change.  The
system is scheduled to reboot at 3:00 am once a ...