I have an XP box with an ADSL connection. At the moment, despite having a
firewall, I log off the machine if I leave it for any length of time. My
reasoning for doing this is that if anyone from the internet does manage to
get onto my network, they won't be able to access the PC ...

I need to know how to report a hijacker taking my license code for Windows
when I installed it.  After I entered the code, the only opition I had for
using it was "on the computer only," or something like that.  I know that the
hijacker took the code, and I am afraid I won't be ...

I have turned off System Restore on my slave HDD in an attempt to regain the
space on it reserved for System Volume Information, but find that this has
made virtually no difference to the free space available and there still
seems to be about 10% of the drive showing as reserved ...

I have a situation where we have a small group of users that use a
series of removable USB drives for data storage and transfer.  Three of
these users are "administrators" for the project using these drives.
As such, they need the ability to reformat these drives, but we don't

Uses: Windows XP Professional;
I got 2 questions here and hoping to get a response for those:
01. My computer got 3 partitions of my hard drive and named as C, E, F
respectively. I'm the administrator in my computer. I would like to deny the

When I boot up my computer after being in stand-by mode there is no promt for
a password, despite the fact that my account (administrator) is password
protected.  It does promt after full reboot.  Anybody know hwy?

Our system administrator recently transferred us from a workgroup to a
domain.  In doing so he changed the ability for the local user to shutdown
the local machine to domainusers only.  I still have a couple of programs
that I need to use under my old profile and not being able ...

I have Norton Antivirus 2005 and AutoProtect is turned on but on power up it
says I maybe open to attack. I have used Full System Scan and Updated Virus
Definitions many times. Can't seem to get an answer from Symatec,s new web
page. JJ

My boss decided to be clever, and enabled the TweakUI autologon  feature for
his XP Pro laptop. Since that, however, the machine will not boot. When it
starts up, you get the usual windows loading animations, then a blank blue
screen (the default desktop background) with a mouse ...

I have 50 XP Pro PCs on a domain and have granted local administrator rights
to all users placing the Domain Users group inside the local Administrators
group on each PC.  This works fine but the weak link is that there seems no
way to prevent users from looking inside the ...

Hello, I am trying to safekeep my WinXP Pro admin password using: 'Prevent a
forgotten password', but I receive:  "Your computer does not have a
removable disk drive. A removable medium is required to use the feature".
Does anyone know how I can burn a CD with the password info ...

I have just installed a second hard disk.
Everything has gone amazingly well except I now get a warning that the
Firewall is off.
I have tried switching it back on with no luck.

When i try to disable windows firewall, a message box asking for
permission pops up. I got the hotfix (814054) fixing it from micsoft,
but i can't run it from the application (cause it has GUI and i can't
do it on customers' PCs), therefore i have to imitate the hotfix in my

a password was set on the admin user and now i dont know what it is i
need to get in to the administrator user on the computer but dont know
what the pass word is please help please please. is there anyway to
remove the password and bypass this

For the last two days I have been unable to access msn.co.uk, it says
that the page has loaded but it is blank. Also, I can click on hotmail,
and see my emails, but I cant open them. I tried to do a system restore,
but it just brings up a blank screen. Also, when I try to look at