Need help to solve the error. After login my password, the msg The
application failed to initialize properly (0xc00000022). Click on OK to
terminate the application. appear. After click OK, only the background (No
Icon appear in desktop) appear and keep on waiting.

I have MSBSA ver 1.2.1 installed and am trying to install ver 2.0 on an XPro
laptop. Ver 2.0 is supposed to run on XP:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsa2/qa.mspx#EEAAA
But when I try to install on XP Pro client workstations, I get a error

Just experienced a very strange situation. We have several hundred XP clients
on an NT Domain. We disable windows firewall. Over the weekend we upgraded
our NT 4 Domain to Windows 2003 Mixed Mode Active Directory. We are now
seeing today and yesterday some machines have the ...

I have Windows XP Professional, ver. 2002, Service Pk2.
This is my home computer. My logon has administrator rights but I can not
seem to find the actual administrator logon and password.
My concern is that I am hooked up to a wireless network at home with my

I need a way for a user to run a program that will check the user's local pc
for installation and version of 3 applications:
1. Outlook (all versions)
2. Goldmine (all versions)

I noticed recently that under Security advice on Microsoft's web site an
extra category appeared besides "Firewall", "Automatic Updates" and "Virus
Protection". And that was "Spyware Protection".
Is there plans to add this 4th catgory to the XP Security Center?

Sorry if this is a redundant question. I've tried to scan this newsgroup but
the volume of information is overwhelming.
Is it possible to restrict users' access to certain programs, based on time
of day and day of week, using native XP Pro functionality? I'm trying to

I've removed various virus and trojan programs I had on my machine and now I
have 3 lingering problems.
1. When I start up I get and error message refering to rrot.exe having a
problem loading. the message reads "Debug Assertion Failed" (a C++ error

I was trying to lock down the system for my kids use,
and ended up locking it down so tight I cant do anything now...
can't shutdown, can't access Run, can't execute any registry modifications,
etc.

We have normally in the past given our sales people local Admin rights on
their laptops.  Its getting to be more of a pain then its worth and we do
not want them to have as much control on the PC.
Though we need them to be able to config WiFi setting for the Different

I've got a laptop with an OEM Windows XP Prof SP2 (not preinstalled, I
installed it myself). The problem:
When I start a program with RunAs, then the program starts, but after the UI
comes up, it inmediatly hangs, and turns to Not Responding state. The effect

I am having trouble running MBSA. I run XP Pro + SP1 on a
standalone PC connected via ethernet to broadband.
If I provide the computer name then I get a message saying:
    "Unable to scan all computers"

A customer lost there operating system (do to a virus I think). There wanted
some files on the disk. They had an old hard disk lying around, so the loaded
XP Pro on that and slaved the other disk. This worked fine, except that one
of the My Document folders had been made private ...

Long story short, I ran some malware by mistake and it deleted several XP
(SP2) files.  I was able to fix almost everything via microsoft.com, but now
the windows firewall will not allow me to make any changes via the security
center.  I get the following error message:  "Due to ...

my friend was on my computer and now Im locked out of administrator and
do not remember my password because i never have to go to that, i am
signed in as a guest, i do not have the windows cd, is their any other
way i could reset my password for administrator or any other way, im am