My problem is that on one of my computers are few accounts with
administrative privileges and only one that is true administrator.
Anyone user with administrative privileges can log in remotely and
start program under his account. Is it possible to restrict only

This may or may not be the right forum for this question... My computer was
stolen on Monday and a copy of XP Home with it. I had an encryption software
installed on the machine that required a numeric password or else it would
crash after any attempt to boot into safemode. ...

Can someone explain to me what each of the permissions for administrators do?
1. Full Control
2. Modify
3. Read & Execute

I was wondering how do you prevent users from deleting and moving shortcuts
on the desktop.
I was also wondering how do you prevent users from saving to the desktop
without locking the whole C:/ drive.

I have recently load SP2.  The problem I am having is with a VPN Client being
blocked.  I have turned off the firewall completely, but I still can not use
the VPN.
I loaded the VPN after the SP2 was complete.  The VPN goes thru all of the

I had a a corrupted system file, so I installed another version of XP Home on
my machine. I went back to my original XP installation and went through a
"repair".
Now, I can get into the newer XP install, but the first XP install gives

windows has suddenly decided to make me logon at startup,. it did'nt used to
& I am the only user. it therefore now takes longer to get the computer
running as I can't just turn on and wander off for a bit. Is there a way to
get rid the login process at startup?

i get a warning when tring to get to the firewall settings "due to
unidetified error widows cannot display firewall properties" ...any
suggestions
not had any virus's or made any chanegs that i can think would cause this

I need to audit failed attempts to change the system time.  I'm running XP
Pro (SP2) in a standalone situation.  I have failure auditing of system
events and of privilege use.  I don't get a 520 event failure or a 577
SeSystemTimePrivilege failure in the Security Log when ...

As a good security practice, I would like to configure machines to run
normally at a lower privilege user account, and only use the
administrator account for maintenance and administration. However, I
have machines that have been already configured with a single

I have a situation where I'd like to prevent Enable/Disable of LAN.
The users are normal network users, but some have local admin
permissions to their computers.
What policies will I need to apply to prevent Enable/Disable LAN on all

We are in an educational setting.  Staff members periodically forget to lock
their computers when they leave their classroom or office.  We are on active
directory and each staff member is a regular user.  Is there any way to have
the computer automatically lock after a certain ...

I have a desktop and laptop computer in my workgroup.  Both computers can see
each other when I look at Microsoft Windows Networks.  Both computers are
running Windows XP Home, one has an ethernet connections to the router and
the other a wireless connection. The problem I have ...

I never set one when I set up my computer, now I am being asked for one and
have NO idea what it would be. Any ideas before I give Bill another chunk of
change? THANKS!!!!!
XP Pro SP2

I want to create the next tree and assign permission, but it doesn't work..
users
 --user1
 --user2