Recently we formatted and reinstalled XP Pro. The problem is that files
and folders on a second Drive are no longer accessible (probably
because they are orphaned now in terms of an owner, etc)
I get the message :

My workplace uses a robust firewall with intrusion prevention,
anti-virus, and anti-spyware at the gateway, and has great netowrk
security as far as I'm concerned. Recently in the past couple days we
have had 5 computers come up with the security log full error upon

I am trying to get an application working which under Windows 2000 (and also
XP pro) requires me to access the local policy manager (Control
Panel|Administrative tools|Local policy Manager) to set a couple of things
like 'act as part of the operating system' and 'create a token ...

Is there a method I can use to restrict viewing the local drives of an XP
workstation from Internet Explorer?  I don't want a certain segment of users
to have the ability to browse the system32 directory and run commands from
there.

Hello Newsgroup!
I also have lots of problems getting RUNAS to work on a WindowsXP
Pro/SP2 machine.
runas /user:Administrator cmd.exe

I have a Windows XP Home sp2 workstation in which I'd like to set up some
password rule: with the command net accounts I set the min. password lenght,
max & min. duration. Then I verified these setting if they are working and I
found that: password expiration is not advertized, ...

hi
i heard that there is an account in windows which is hidden
and has administrator privilege ..
is this true ? if yes what is it ?? and how to use ?

I am using windows XP SP2 and ws wondering if anyone knows how to disable
the autofill function on the windows system.
I have managed to switch it off on my internet explorer browser but not on
the windows system itself.

In the past, I was instructed to install software and configure Windows using
the Admin account, and use the User account for everything else (Internet
browsing, apps, etc.)
So, I have three accounts on my WinXP laptop: Admin, User & Guest.

Hi Experts:
1) My faithful Zone Alarm Free, after years, went 'True Vector' belly up
with a new version install;
2) Sygate won't install at all;

To be more clear about it- I have a XP machine on my Windows 2000 domain.  
Only the restricted 'user' accounts log in to one particular machine.  I need
to give this user account administrative rights to a particular program.  
This program can only run if the user has admin ...

I posted this on AD Administration site and received zero responses so I
thought I try this site.
I have a GPO that does the following for company laptops: turns off the XP
Sp2

I keep receiving a message that my computer has been hijacked by the spyware
"stealthSWs114.h!dll ver.4.442as18a". My homepage is affected and keeps going
to "www.yoursystemupdate.com" instead of the set homepage. I tried both the
Microsoft Beta scan and Ad-Ware by Lavasoft and ...

I have windows XP home and am computer administrator on the user
accounts. I have a son who has his own account, and is limited user.
I was under the impression that he could not see or access MY folders,
unless I specifically "shared" them. However, when I looked on his

I'm not able to open for example the attachments of my e-mails. There is a
microsoft internet explorer-window saying  "ie can't download the file. The
page is either not found or unavailable. Try again later." Any suggestions?