I'm about to define the domain wide group policy settings for the windows
firewall on our Windows XP SP2 clients.
Now I want to define this at the domain level so that it will affect all
XP SP2 computers when they join the domain .. without having to be moved to a

To anyone with the knowledge,
A two part question
Part 1: Is it possible to make one of my HDD inaccessible to other users on
the same system?  The User accounts will be "limited" accounts and I want to

99% of all my Word files were destroyed  while I was down loading HP digital
camera support soft-wear. The lost files were replaced with the "none sence"
internet files or other files in Spanish.  My computer works very slow.
How can I recover my files? How can I get rid of the ...

I have created a GPO for my domain with the "allow remote administration
exception" policy enabled for the Windows Fireall domain profile.
However, the policy does not apply to the computers in the domain. The
exception never displays in the Windows Firewall settings. All ...

Hello, I wonder if someone could help me.
We wish to make one particular user a local admin on whatever
workstation he logs on to.  He wanders about the organisation quite a
lot :)

I have around six directories that I want to protect using EFS. There are a
number of sub directories and around 6500 files.
I want to be able to encrypt the whole lot but make it that a group of users
have both ntfs and EFS permissions to view all the files. The idea is that I

Does anyone know of a way to refresh a users permissions without logging off
and then back on? For example if I'm connected to a customers PC and they
don't have local admin rights, I can use the "run as" option to open computer
management as an administrator and give them local ...

 We are mapping drive from Windows 2000 and Windows XP workstation to
Windows 2000 server and Windows Server 2003.
 Is the communication between the workstations and the servers encrypted?
What do we need to do to encrypt the traffic between the workstations and

Just ran the XP2 security update and Security Center no longer recognizes AVG
and ZoneAlarm.  I don't like running in ignore mode, so any idea when you
will fix this?

I juat got an XP Home notebook which I am configuring with several
user accounts.
WHile the wireless network runs fine when I log as as the Admin
user, often Windows does not 'find' the wireless when logging on as a

I have three networked computers. 2 XPs, 1 W2000.
Files are kept in the W2000.
I can open files from shared folders normally.
Now, I have tried to encrypt those shared folders, but when I try to open

Is there a fix or some way to get around the XP block that won't recognize
the info on my slave hard drive after reinstalling xp?  The info is on the
drive, but windows won't let me access it.  

I have a program that need to create a user from the command line.  This
could be on XP, 2000, 2003.  It could be on a domain.  
How do I do this?  What other things will I have to do?  Is it possible
to detect if this is being done on a domain or not?

When using internet explorer 6, if i don't put http:// in the web address,
e.g., if i simply put in espn.go.com or microsoft.com , my browser goes to a
porn site.  
I have virus and spyware protection, yet this still happens.  It doesn't

Hello, I'm running WinXP Home SP2 on a Sony Vaio VGN S360.  I am the only
user of this machine and I have my login password protected.  I have the
computer set to prompt for password on resume from screen saver, hibernation
and standby.  When I boot up, my login works just fine; ...