I recently bought a second-hand computer, for my grand-daughter, from a
company gone into liquidation.  Windows XP Professional is installed but I
was not given any systems disks.  (For info:  I do have systems disks for my
own computer which uses XP Home and Office 2003).

This has to with an account created in Windows 2003 server.  The account is
setup for Distributed Com User, Network Configuration Operator, and Power
User.  The user can't delete any files with these rights.  Does anyone know
how i can get the users to delete files without giving ...

I want to boot directly to my Desktop on all my PCs.  All run Windows XP Pro,
and
all now give the the Administrator screen or something like it requiring
some kind

I have a Windows Server 2000 domain and XP Pro clients.  I have set up VPN
through RRAS (PPTP) and it works fine.  My question is:  Should I be
concerned about security when remote users (using their own laptops) log in
using a public wireless access point (hotspot)?  My ...

Is there a way to setup so people can only log in during business
hours?  I don't want my employees coming in during weekends or evenings
to "steal" information.  Gramm-Leach-Bliley compliance.

I am unable to see the Security Tab  by looking at the properties of a folder
called c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\
I only see 3 tabs on my screen and I don't know how to get the security tab.
Can someone help.

First Q,
I want to share my pc's printer on a network workgroup, (no domain or
server, fixed IP addresses, DNS and gateway from the Firewall Dns server),
but the network wizard does not recommend using SFS and guest account, due

After Floppy disk, USB ports have been disabled and FTP is blocked by the
firewall, are there any other ways to transfter files out except emailing
them via Outlook and Web Emails (like yahoo, hotmail...)? Is there any way to
prevent files being transferred out via web email (or ...

i'm the administrator and would like to make certain folders private from my
other users, however when i click on the sharing options the "make this
folder private" box is greyed out.
i tried to fix this issue through a number of online means, but because i

I am trying to make a screensaver shutdown the computers in our domain.
I have found several screensavers on the Internet, and they all claim to
make use of Force Shutdown.
When a user is logged on, it works all right, even when the user has open

I installed SP2 on several of our church stsrems ( in preparation to allow
them to access the internet ). Once SP2 was installed, the firewall could be
"turned on"  on all but one system.  When I try to enable the firewall I get
a message "We're sorry.  The Security Center could ...

I have two XP pro computers that have apparently had group policies set so
that control panel turned off, "cmd" turned off, properties of "my computer"
turned off and the RUN command turned off.  I can't figure out a way to pull
these computers out of an old non-functioning NT4 ...

I am creating a service that needs to have access to a folder on another
box on the network.  This could be on a domain with any mix of xp pro,
win2K, win2K server, win2003 server.
I would like to avoid having to specify the service to run under a

Hi, I have a problem with a PC on the network, I can ping from this PC any IP
on the network, but if you try to ping the IP for this PC or the computer
name a request timed out comes. I'm using DHCP on my network

Windows XP SP2, firewall XP, Microsoft AntiSpyware (Beta version) are
installed on the computer and monitoring of the Antispyware are launched.
Symantrc Norton Antivirus is used as an antivirus program. The antivirus
program detected  the virus Adware.MaxSeach on this computer. ...