All,
For those who has Windows XP Home Edition... I got XP Pro installed and
can't check that, sorry.
What tabs do you see in the drive/folder properties? I'm looking for the

I have a "new" computer, given to me. In truth, it's about 3-4 yrs old, but,
compared to my old Win 95 (!) PC, it's a ripper.
It has Win XP Pro on it, and when I check via Windows Explorer/Help/Is this
a legal copy of Windows? it says, yep it is. But I have NO discs of any

Hi, I have XP SP2 and actually didnt realize this until after I deleted the
uninstall files which I kept for about 2 months, but I cannot turn off the
Windows firewall permanatly, and I want to, and now that I have removed the
unistall files I cannot uninstall FP2 for XP, can ...

I am trying to repair my window xp pro. when I reboot the computer with the
cd inside it ask me to press any key to boot from CD. After I do that it ask
to press R to repair windows. after that the computer is asking to enter the
administrator pass word but i dont recall stting a ...

After my computer (Windows XP) crashed, I sent an error report to microsoft.
Once teh error report had been sent the computer told me to solve the
problem, I was to restart my computer in "Safe Mode with Networking", go to
http://safety.live.com, scan the computer and that would ...

i got infected with spyware, i used microsoft anti spyware and a load of
other differnt things to get rid of it and most of them found differt
problems, but my system is still really slow and my desktop has changed to a
bvlank screen that i cant change, anyone have an idea ?

I would be grateful if anyone knows about the problem I am facing.
There are a set of files that are not readable. The .doc although could be
opened with word, their text is unreadable. The .mht is the same. The .url
has no url address when I click with the mouse on file properties.

I'm trying to run the Windows-installed disk defragmenter on an XP SP2
system.  I'm getting a Data Execution Prevention pop-up every time.  The
processor is several years old and _not_ DEP-aware.  I'd just finished a
CHKDSK /R on the drive the first time the DEP error came up, so ...

Lame question but I forget.  How do you hide the full name of the shared
folder from showing up in Explorer/My Computer on a user's PC in a domain
environment.   Folder$ created and shared on server shows up as Folder$ on
'servername' (X:).  If it's mapped through a logon script, ...

On windows 2003 TS server i want to find out the IP-adress to each
connected clients. I have not found a command that can do that..
All i can see is the information in "terminal server manager" where
there are only information about rdp client type, connection status etc...

I have several machines in home, that have all drives shared.  I want to be
able to get to the Program files filder and all sub directories.  I get the
access denied error message.
I understand tha tI need to disable simple file sharing, but need step by

Something is up but after searching the Internet for the last couple of days
I can find nothing mentioning this specifically.  Your may want to check
your computer to see if you have the same thing going on.  And if anybody
can shed some light on the problem I'd be grateful.

Does anyone know of any winxp apps or commands that can write zero's to all
unused blocks/bits of an ntfs partition?  I know some third party security
apps can do variations on this - but we need something that will do just a
single pass and write only all zeros (or all one's I ...

As network administrator I disallow any non-admins local admin rights.
Recently I've had to install Visual Studio .Net (2003) and developers cannot
seem to do any compiling without being at least member of the "debug users"
group.

I have a hacktool.notifier on my daughter's computer and i have done
everything i can think of to remove it and it will not get off my daughter's
computer. Anyone have any ideas? I tried norton, it wont even let me delete
it. I tried  housecall it told me it was there,but it will ...