Hey guys,
I create administrator (with password) and normal user in Win XP Pro.
But when I restart XP, the system is not stopping to ask me password for
login,

Windows Xp Home Hangs during Start
Windows appears to crash just before the welcome screen comes on and stays
with a black screen with the mouse pointer showing. Ive Tried Safe mode same
problem. I done a system restore and same problem. I tried putting the drive

turned on my computer and got a security alert saying f-secure anti-virus is
out of date so I opened f-secure and checked for updates, that seemed fine
no updates needed but still get this alert, f-secure support suggested
re-installing and still that same windows security alert ...

I have a folder with just this permisison:
   Everyone:(OI)(CI)R
I cannot change anything inside this folder and I cannot change the
permission of this folder even as an administrator. How could this happen

I have a second hard drive which I use for mainly storage. Is it possiple to
password protect this drive from prying eyes?

We have a domain account that we use to do our automated builds.  This
account is what our IT calls an "Application" account; it's similar in
concept to a "Service" account.  We want individual developers to be able to
invoke the batch file that starts the build process.  In ...

Something called "Spyware Blocking" keeps trying to download itself. I turn
off the computer, it starts downloading as soon as I turn it on. My computer
is running really slow. I have had a lot of suspicous files/adware (?) when
my computer scans for bad things. I am a neophyte, ...

I have probably a very simple question, but I would like to run a full back
up because I am sending in my Laptop for repair.  How do I do it?

Win XP Pro SP1
Please can you tell me how to lock my computer? Ctrl-Alt-Del takes me to the
Windows Task Manager but nothing to do with "Lock Computer".

I can fast user switch using the start menu but I can't use Windows Key L
to do it... I can use other windows key L functions (ie win-r)
Does anyone know what the problem is?
Thanks,

after entering recovery console, md tmp is access denied. It does not prompt
for admin password. I have a corrupt \windows\sytem32\config\system file

I encrypted one of my folders on my drive D using the right click on a folder
& selcting Properties, then clicking on the Advanced button & ticking the
Encrypt contents to secure data.
I then had to re-format my drive C, now I can not gain access to this

Is there a way to change file/folder ownership in windows XP home edition
without booting into safe mode to access the security tab?
Perhaps a small utility or command line program to do this?

I have two computers A and B in a peer-to-peer network.
To connect from computer A to B, I enter the username and password and
then can operate files at B from A.
When I log off computer A and then somebody else logs on with the same

I am having problems trying to use a smart card based certificate to log onto
Windows XP SP2.
The system shows the following error in the event log:
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