Good day.  I have a new system with XP Media Center.  I have changed the
administrators username from Owner to my new name, but everytime I reboot the
system, it changes the login username to: Owner.  How can I stop this.  
Again, I have already changed the administrator username ...

My laptop was fully shutdown on 14th oct and recovered again on 15th oct. the
laptop couldnot even read the operating system and could not do
anything....... It sometimes blacked out the screen and I couldn't see
anything... but it back to normal the next day. The only thing is ...

I keep getting a Norton antivirus alert that there is a trojan.vorun virus on
my computer. I scanned with Ewido and it finds it and asks if I want to clean
it, but it is still there! I cannot restore my Windows XP either, it always
comes back saying that the restore was ...

I am trying to set up x-lite Voip phone on my daughters computer. I am
tryng to do this over the phone, with her in another country.
I know from installing it on my own computer that if it is installed
with Firewalls operational it will not successfully make a call.

I have a clients pc that I cannot enable the firewall.
It comes up with message " For your security, some settings are controlled
by Group Policy".
The firewall settings are greyed out and in the OFF position.

When I try to use Windows update for XP I get error number 0x8024001D which,
of course, MS says is not their fault. I already tried the suggested fix of
registering MSXML3.dll. In the face of the company's failure to support their
own software, what else can I try?

After installing MS MS05-051 (902400) on my fully patched XP SP2 i've seen
quite a few issues:
-when logging on with non-admin account, explorer.exe didn't start (no
taskbar, no start menu...). When logging on with local admin rights this

I have run anti-adware and spyware and deleted the bad files. The desktop
though still goes back to an ad for anti-adware from the internet instead of
my set desktop theme.   thank you,  Steven

I have Microsoft anti-spy installed.Do I need Norton anti virus? Can I do
without it or any  other anti spy? Thanks

I apologize if this post is not in the correct category, after scanning the
choices; this one seemed to be the most appropriate one I could find.
I am using Windows XP Professional, SP2.
Here is my question/problem:

My computer has recently been infected, although Microsoft Antispyware and F
Secure Anti Virus seems has now cleared. Functionality seems to be back to
normal but I cannot change the background, which now says 'you system is
infected' on an all blue background. Can't change or ...

We purchased three computers from a computer guy and now I would like to
check to see if we are the holder of the license or if he is.  How do I do
that?
Thanks

First, let me say that I am not a Windows system or network administrator,
but a software tool developer supporting software development productivity
utilities used at my employment. I help maintain a home-grown automated test
management system used to run testcases to measure ...

I have created a group policy using the MMC.  It works on the computer I
created it on, but all settings apply to users and the administrator.
I moved the policy I created to another machine and the group policy only
applies to the users, which is what I want.

Hi, I have three computers running on a network. All three have been
configured to share files. Comp1 can access files from Comp2 and Comp3 but
Comp2 cannot open Comp1 but it can open Comp3 and Comp3 can open Comp2 but
not Comp1. I have checked numerous times through the settings ...