I have norton on my computer but cannot get the security center antivirus or
firewall turned off. How do you do it?

What tool can I use that logs when my PC is accessed by another? For example,
a program that logs if I was pinged, or if one of my ports was scanned, or if
someone tried to get into my PC. I can't find this in the event logs. I'm not
sure if Port Reporter or PortQuy provides this ...

is there any way to decrypt a file which has been encrypted but after
encrypting it, the user has changed and there is no recovery agent, is there
any third party program which would do that?
thanks,

I have a Windows 2000 Server domain with Active Directory.  All users are in
the same OU.
Is there a way where these domain users can install published software thru
GPO? I want users to install only the software that I publish to them thru

My wife & I are administrators of our PC. I have total control as always of
what I apply and OK. I recently ran a "cleanup" program & deleted useless
programs in "add & delete & also disabled "ctfmon", etc. I use "Registry
Mechanic" & "Registry First Aid". My wife now lost her ...

The icons and links in Security Center for
Manage Security Settings for:
Internet Options, Automatic Update, and Widows Firewall
are missing.  Need help in restoring them.

I'm currently running Windows 2000 Pro -- soon to be XP and shortly on a
Windows 2003 domain -- and I want to lockdown the desktops. I don't want
users to be able to install any programs -- whether by inserting a CD to
install something, or downloading some junk, like Webshots ...

I'm working on an application that uses the currently logged in users Windows
group membership.  During development I want to be able to change their group
membership on the domain controller (Windows 2003 AD) and be able to see the
change in group membership in the application ...

In Windows 2000 when opening an attachment you are prompted with the choice
of Opening or Saving the document.  In XP Professional I am only receiving
the Save prompt.  Where can i change the setting to allow the Open feature to
appear?

I keep getting this message when trying to install a game: Setup has detected
that unInstallShield is in use. Please close unInstallShield and restart setup
Error 432
... Great... I'd love to close the unInstallShield... I just can't figure

I have been tryin to access the built-in Administrator account, I have
windows XP home edition, and i was wondering if anybody knew why, when i type
the password in, i cannot access the account. I've changed the password to
something i can remember, so if anybody could help me on ...

OK, this should be really easy...
Whoami.exe /priv generates a list of privileges with "(X)" or "(O)"
precedeing them.  Am I right to assume that "(X)" means off and "(O)" means
on?

I have a website, winfixer.com, that has corrupted my computer. It appears it
enters as a cookie on someother website. I do a search and I find the files.
But everytime I delete the files it returns again daily when I log onto IE. I
have the website listed in the ...

Our office LAN has an SCO Unix (Openserver 5) box running VisionFS, their
smb server. We have a Windows NT4 box and a Windows 98 box that can  access
the Unix box. Because of encryption compatibility problems, both of those
are configured to use plain text passwords. After learning ...

Hi!  I just tried installing the Fingerprint Reader device but
got an error msg that it does not support the Windows XP 64 bit platform.
Am I going to be able to get an update from the manufacturer?
Thanks!