I am using XP Home SP2.  For some reason lately, everytime I start my computer, a security center balloon pops up in the system tray saying Norton Antivirus (NAV) is turned off and I may be vulnerable.  Then it is gone once startup is complete.  This tells me that for some reason ...

I was wondering if somone can shed some light on this tough predicament that one
of my clients ran into.  While troubleshooting a virus issue, the user
inadvertently set the permissions for the entire HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT reg hive to
deny for the Everyone and Administrator group.

I recently removed SpySheriff from my pc.  It would not allow task manager or
changes to some of the display settings.  I got task manager back but cannot
get display settings back.  This is affecting desktop, screensaver, and
appearance.  How do I get control of these display ...

I'm trying to setup my boss's laptop to access our office network from home.  
We have a Linksys router and Linksys Client VPN.  The client works fine when
the Firewall is turned off, but, I do not want to leave the computer in that
state.  I have enabled exceptions for Linksys ...

I currently use iTunes and play City of Villians/Heros.  Lately, I've been
having some issues with these two programs.  Whenever I start iTunes, it
comes up with an error message that reads: iTunes has detected that it is not
the default player for audio files. Do you want to ...

I have some software that on some machines, I must create a local user with
the same ID as their Active Directory ID to get the program to work. We had
tested for file access, and other stuff, but ended up just creating this new
user and adding them to the Power Users group. Yes, ...

Is there a way through AD 2003 to stop users writing to and the C drive.  I
want them to use a single folder for saving stuff in the root of C.
Any ideas would be great!
Merry Christmas,

When I use the certificate-import wizard it offers the option to enable
strong private key protection. But enabling this it breaks WPA, I did not
find a window where I can write the password, and Windows told me that it was
unable to find a certificate to log me on the wireless ...

I get the following message when attempting to logon to Win2k03 SBS domain
from XP Pro sp2 client:
Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because the domain controller
is down or otherwise unavailable, or because your computer account was not  

I have been having both network and admin problems on a Dell Dimension 4500
running XP home and somehow managed to cure it by comparing what I thought
were relevant registry settings with a computer that was working correctly -
however, I am not actually certain what I did. In ...

Anyone else having trouble applying the December patches?
MS05-054 results in "Setup Error:  installation did not complete"
cannot access the supposedly associated KB905915.
Cannot access KB910437, which is supposed to be a fix of some kind for WinXP

Here is my situation:  I have a set of Windows servers and
workstations, not in a AD domain by design.  Of course, they can all
see each other on my network.  From my workstation, I want to be able
to quickly and remotely determine whether a user's account on any of

In my Local Security Settings, Local Policies, User Rights Assignment, some
policies have a security setting with a long, numerical account starting with
an * (e.g., *1-1029-309039etc...).  Why is this there, and will I mess up my
settings by trying to remove it?

when I try to connect from one xp pro machine through a linksys router on
both sides to another xp pro machine I get through the "connecting message"
right away then comes the "verifying username and password" which sits till
it times out how? Do I get it to authenticate

At home, I have an Lap Top running XP home. On this we have four accounts.
Myself and my wife have "administrator" accounts with password protection and
the children have a normal account each again with passport protection. Both
my wife and I can remove the passport protection ...