Sarbanes and Oxley have been auditing our company and they have given us the
role as IT to restrict user access on our network.  My question is what
"group" would I add a user so that he/she will be restriced to install any
3rd party software such as google toolbar, or messngers, ...

Is there any way to disable/clear the "Use Simple File Sharing" check
box on XP Pro machines through the use of Group Policy in Active
Directory?  We have many XP machines on our network that require this
setting to be disabled.

We have a domain user here at our company, using a XP Pro machine.  She has
been setup on the machine as a power user.  But whenever she tries to update
programs, or install them, it always throws and error message.  These
programs do NOT need administrator rights to install. ...

My C: drive was full so I have just completed step one of migrating to a
larger disk.
I used Western Digital's Data Lifeguard tool to move the contents of my old
drive to the new disk and to make it bootable.  The good news is that almost

Well my problem is, one of my user have formated the win XP m/c
without knowing that he had Encrypted folder with files encryped in
it.  Now my problem is, he has formated his C: drive and the files are
in D: drive, and after the reinstallation of the M/c none of his files

I am locked out as administrator and can not find the built in account for
administrator.  I was an administrator in my own account but now it has mine
set as limited.  First, would certain downloads cause that?  At login all of
the users are missing except mine wich is the ...

I have lost my url address bar at the top of my browser page....it is
NOT just condensed or collapsed into the other tool bars....any
suggestions on how to recover it?

For some reason my computer after booting keeps having a gray box reading 6fc: qttask . exe- No disk, Please insert a disk into drive\devise\hardisk\dr3. I must click cancel 6 times to make the box go away. Could someone tell me why?

I used Zone Alarm security and suspect I inadvertantly allowed a malicious
login into my trust local network.  The event log read:
Event Type:    Warning
Event Source:    WinMgmt

I just had  DSLinstalled on my computer. It was working fine until I tried to
log on one day and had a security precaution. I then purchased and downloaded
Win antivirus Pro 2006. Now I cannot log onto internet. I disabled it, now I
keep getting this security precaution and ...

How do you get a system to go back to logging on via clicking on one of
the user icons rather than the user name password prompt logon dialogue
box?

I don't have it set to require passwords and it doesn't force me to logon
(except at powerup), but I don't like having it going back to the logon
screen all the time.  How do I configure it to stay in an account until I
want to switch accounts?

I would like to have the green icon that shows computer activity on my task
bar, but I can't seem to get it consistantly. Somettimes it's there sometimes
not. I am not hiding inactive icons.

I just loaded the newest version of the beta.  I installed it as the
administrator.  It does not start when I log on as Fred (a member of the
administrators group).  I get a dialog box that says - Unexpected error;
quitting.  Then a second dialog box: Error Loading Microsoft ...

Hi m8s,
I have a problem  laptop with XP Home edition (SP2). Somedays ago after a
normal reboot the system didn't come up again. The first windows XP loading
just finished and the logon screen didn't appear. The sysyem simply stopped