I installed Norton Firewall recently, have had Norton Antivirus for some
years. Until the Firewall was installed, I could click on Live Update and
connect, download and install no problem. Now an error box comes up saying
"Live update is inaccessible..." Is there some setting I ...

We build our PCs using RIS and the last part in to run a batch file that
installs all the latest patches. This is to ensure that the PC is secure
before SMS "kicks in".  Everything was working fine but recently I have
noticed that a few patches are installing without error, ...

Running XP, and just installed several dozen updates including SP2. (A
year-old machine I acquired which had not been connected to the
internet recently.)
I had installed the latest version of the free ZA before I did the

Any ideas on how to access info on a 2nd hard drive after reinstalling
windows xp?  The files are there, I just can't access them.  The previous
help received did not accomplish this, please see below.  Thanks.
I tried the steps under the "How to take ownership" link you provided, ...

Hi, Iam the only user on my personal computer which uses windows xp
whenever i start my system it asks me to log in as administrator or an
other user. As iam the only user, i dont want win xp to ask me this.
want win xp to log in automatically without asking any user accoun

does anybody here know how i can disable the menu that is brought up
when F8 is pressed during boot. It's just that we have students that
are booting into safemode and screwing things up.
Thank you

I am helping set up a library. I would like to customize and then prevent
changes to the start menu and the desktop.
I am able to do so by typing in the run dialogue box "gpedit.msc" All the
options I would like to set are avaliable in this control panel.

I had i virus in my computer that corrupt me a lot of my system files.
Now I can't access to "my files" folder because I had a password as the
Administrator and it doesn't give access to it.
How can I get to reach all the important files I had save in that folder.

In my office, the systems administrator has set our work group to lock out
after 30 minutes of idle time.  In doing so, this prevents the individual
user from using display properties.  While not a huge deal, it's frustrating
to not be able to change screen resolution, color etc. ...

I can no longer get updates (in XP Home) because it says I need to be an
administrator [Error number: 0x8DDD0002] but I am the administrator. This
error only occurs when tying to get XP Home updates.

I was looking on Limewire and Avast yelled at me and told me I had a virus. I
immediately did what it said to do and uninstalled Limewire and did a search
and deleted everything I found.
Would someone please look at my HJT log and see if anything is wrong?

I am helping set up a library. I would like to customize and then prevent
changes to the start menu and the desktop.
I am able to do so by typing in the run dialogue box "gpedit.msc" All the
options I would like to set are avaliable in this control panel.

Anybody know which part of security we can check in XP since we did a brand
new Windows XP installation, we logged in filenet through web browser, the
viewer tab for statement and simple search grayed out especially for the
users have no local admin right. (if the user is local ...

I reimage my employees laptops on a regular basis and am looking into using
USMT. Just wanted to know if USMT will migrate settings and faverotes for
other browsers such as Firefox or if it is exclusive to IE. thanks in advance
for the help cheers.

Hi - I was wondering if anyone could help me with the following problem
please....
I have a program - lets call it program.exe and I don't want users of
my system to run it directly - by double clicking on it or using the