I was wondering if it is possible to set up a domain server using Windows XP
Pro, or if you needed one of the server editions of Windows.
Thanks for your input!
Reuben

This is being cross-posted to both the Windows 2000 Professional group, and
the Windows XP Professional group, as it pertains to both Operating Systems.
I am on a wired/wireless home network, using a Linksys WRT54GS router. The
network consists only of my main computer, the PC ...

We shall be glad to have some input on this issue:
On one PC that dual boots - Windows XP Media Center Edition and Windows XP
Professional (both SP2) - there are three users. All three use Windows XP
Pro while MCE is used by two.

I shall appreciate if somebody could guide me about the pros and cons,
especially on operational and security issues, of always running a computer
as Administrator.
This is with respect to one machine that is stand-alone and connects to the

I am a relative novice at understanding computers, so please bear with me.  
I will greatly appreciate any insight you can give me.
I have reason to believe that a hacker may have interfered with my computer
and transferred files from it without my knowledge.     This person could ...

I am creating a password for a user through the regular procedure;
When I want to login with that password, the account refused it.
I removed the account whose password is troublesome, created a new
account, created a new password BUT still I am not being able to login

I've followed the steps in the MSFT article to add the snap-in to
manage group policy firewall settings yet the settings do not appear.
I've added them to all 10 or so GPO's and looked under network
connections and no change.

Hi;
When the operating system is loaded, the key Registry files (SAM
SECURITY, SYSTEM and SOFTWARE)
are 'locked': no application running under the operating system itsel

is it possible to limit executing executables [.exe .dll .cmd .bat .vbs ...]
by their location?
so not to allow executable to be invoked directly from any removable media
[cd, usb, floppy, network ...] just only from trusted & protected & secured

Using XP Pro on network.  We have [accidentally] removed inherited
permissions from users in a folder where there are a large number of
users and a large number of folders and files. Is there any way I can
recover the inherited permissions? This is causing a problem as I add

I have had the winfixer adware infect my Windows XP computer. I have tried to
use System Restore to no avail. Does the malicious Winfixer adware affect the
System restore program?

When i try to log onto my computer it tells me that the password is
incorrect.  There is only one account on the computer and i have never
changed the password before.  The password hint is still the same but the
password does not work.  I have already ruled out the obvious caps ...

HiPerfCooker_v1, ... WHAT is it?
Using XP home, sp2, Mozilla 1.7.12
In COMPUTER MANAGEMENT/EVENT VIEWER/APPLICATION
Found this WARNING...

XP Pro, SP2
I'm using Yahoo Music Engine.  My Norton Personal Firewall tells me the app
is trying to listen for connection (TCP) on Port 80.
Is that OK?

I reacently had a hard drive fail on me, however I have quite a bit of data
that's salvegeable on the drive, and by simply setting the drive as a slave
on another computer, I was able to pull out alot of my files.  The only
problem is in the document's and settings folder where I ...