I have a machine that is used in a dept here at the hospital I work work at
that is used for telepathology.   I need to get into the machine to make
changes to its current setup.  no one here knows the administrator password.  
is there a way to force the machine to join a domain ...

I tried to boot a PC in safe mode but it wouldn't accept any accounts or
passwords I tried.  I used a unix boot CD I normally use to enable the
administrator account and password but it won't work on this PC.  If I
remove it from the domain and put it in a work group - can I set ...

My motherboard failed on me the other day. I can get the board fixed
under warranty but l need to access work files on the hard drive.
Here’s the problem, l put the hard drive in another machine with
Windows XP Pro on it, which worked. I had access to all files except

Using XP Home Edition SP2, is it possible to prevent a guest from shutting
the computer down while the administrator is logged on with programs runing?
I have looked at the possibility of using regedit to disable the shutdown
without logon attribute but was unsure whether to go ...

New XP Professional system with SP2 and all Microsoft priority security
windows updates installed.
I’ve managed to lock myself out of XP whilst setting up our new XP Pro
desktop without, as far as I am aware, doing anything wrong.

Is it possible to change the User Manager Control Panel Applet of Windows XP
Professional Local, non domain environment to Windows 2000 Professional User
Manager Applet (Style)?
Thanks

We would like to log which applications are used by which users, is there a
method of doing this using Window XP.
Thanks
B

please i have aworkgroup network not Domain
i need to create new group on each PC and give this group restrict privilige
or policy like unabe to uninstall program and like this...
how ican do that in the my workgroup network?

When i try to invite a friend for remote assistance a box pops up saying your
current system settings prevent you from sending an invitation. I haven't yet
installed a firewall so what can i do????

Hi.  My client has an XP SP2 machien where the Security Center service
is disabled whenever the machine is rebooted.  I can manually restart
the service and turn on Automatic Updates, but of course I want to fix
this problem.

I think this is part of my ongoing virus problem that has affected my task
manager (tried everything suggested and still my task manager continues to
refuse me access) and my internet connection.
1.  Task manager - given up on this one right now.

All,
             I've ran into something that's driving me nuts. I cannot
completely disable the autorun "feature" (I despise it. <g>) on network
drives mapped to a CD/DVD drive. I have two machines here networked. One is

I'm getting this 'Security Control Center' error in the 'Event Log' at
start-up and MS is not recognizing my Virus Protections software as being
found.  
Event Type:    Error

I had a virus on my pc & now my task manager is disabled. when i press
ctrl-alt-del, i get an error that task manager has been disabled by
administrator. how can i re-enable it please? any help appreciated. thanks

While logged in as a regular unprivileged user, how do you change TCP/IP
properties for an adapter?    When I right click on a shortcut to Network
Connections I placed on my desktop, there is no "Run As" option.
Unfortunately, Microsoft forgot to create an "Open As" option to let a ...