I am the one and only computer administrator of my computer.  I do not have a
hint or reset disk.  The only help online for this says to check the hint,
use your reset disk, or if neither of those work, to contact your computer
administrator.  Obviously, this was helpful.  I ...

I need to password protect my pc and don't have that option available, I
think all the passwords are turned off, how do I get at least one user to
have them turned back on so I can password protect.

Hi there....
after removing SP2 from my computer I noticed the Security Center still
existed.  I had upgraded from SP1.  I noticed several things were still left
running that were part of SP2.  System restore doesn't go back far enough to

I cannot get the AV scanner at Windows Live Safety Center to run. I can
download the scanner successfully. Then, the first time I downloaded it, I
got no button to push to start the scan. So, I provided feedback about that
and then uninstalled it and tried to download it a second ...

I've been experimenting with my Local Security Policy, and have runned across
a probelm. It seems that some how I can no longer access certain files
through applications.
i.e. If I were to use Microsoft Word and wanted to Access the CLip Art

Can anyone point me to a good overview of security settngs available in XP?
My particular problem is this:  We have a work station in our office that
runs XP Pro.  The rest of our workstations run XP Home.  I want to share an
Access MDB that lives in a subfolder in the Program ...

Is there a way to password protect any applications or games on win XPHome
to keep others from using them while you are away?
Ron

We have been getting Userenv 1085 errors in our event logs for some time now.
The message is that:  
"The Group Policy client-side extension Security failed to execute. Please
look for any errors reported earlier by that extension."  

I have some files that I encrypted with EFS on drive D:, but due to a
hardware crash  I had to reformat my harddrive on drive C: and
reinstalled Windows XP.
I have the same username and password, but now I cant see the files. I

Hello group,
Laptop with XP Pro SP2. Will be used to demonstrate certain
applications.
I want to create a user account and then cherry-pick which of the

I setup a point of sale PC to auto login to a domain account, but cannot
remote desktop into these PC's.  It gives me an error: "unable to log you on
because
of an account restriction".

I noticed that if i create a folder on root of C (drive formatted NTFS)  the
read only attribute is set.  Any attempt to remove the read only attribute
appears to work and I get no errors but when closing and reopening the
properties of the folder it is set back to read only.  ...

I can't play any music that I have downloaded on my pc now. It says to up
grade DRM. I went to the music suscriber I use and they went through stesp
having me delete my DRM file, which I did. Then I was to go to this site
www.tinyurl.com/4a4b8 which I did to upgrade windows ...

I can't access to the Windows XP Firewall (SP2), can't access to it all.
Is their a virus ? I use Norton 2004 which up to date.
Have I to Re-isntall Windows XP?
thanks for helps

It worked before and something appears to have changed.
tasklist
or tasklist /svc gives error
ERROR: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.