My new company laptop is on a domain, which only exists at the head
office - 300 miles away.
They have allocated me a domain password which is my name plus a few
numbers.  Annoyingly, they've spelled my name incorrectly and it's

In internet options,settings,view objects there is a damaged activex this is
what it looks like-  codecs/i386/fhg.CAB.When I tried to dowload from any
secure site I received the message your current settings prohibit you from
running activex on this page etc.I checked the ...

I'm working with a group of XP Pro, svc pk 2 laptops that used in a Windows
2k server environment. They are now being used in a simple peer-to-peer
workgroup for a few months, after which they will go back on a different
domain. I'm not sure how relevant that information is. The ...

On my PC if I create a text file as an administrator then try to edit it
as a user I cannot overwrite the file. On another PC the user can. Is
this some overall system setting??
Thanks

My goal is to apply local policies to all users except administrator on a
workstation.
I've managed to restrict access to the internet for users by creating a
dummy proxy server in the Group Policies settings and allowing administrators

I've created a new template based on "setup security.inf" for the NTFS
security. When I apply this template with secedit, no problem. But when I see
the result of the NTFS security on the drive, it is not good every where. So
I've done an analyze of the NTFS security with the ...

I have some Windows XP Pro systems in the Windows 2000 domain environment.  
Now I want everyone login these Windows XP Pro systems with same background
and desktop setting and lock those setting.  I already use group policy to so
this successfully.  However,  I can't pre-set the ...

I have a C++ Windows Service that needs to add itself to the Exceptions List
of the Win XP SP2 firewall.
When the service starts it simply stuffs this key -
C:\<Path to app>\<AppName>.exe

I work for a company that provides web-based apps. Our application's login
web page downloads an OCX file that needs to be registered. If the user that
is logged in to the computer (Win2k, WinXP) has power user or administrative
rights, the OCX file registers fine and the AcitveX ...

In the Privacy settings, there is a place under Sites where you allegedly can
type in a website and it should block cookies from there.  Most of the ad web
addresses now have an extra dot in them, example: adsvr.adknowledge.com.  If
I put this in, in the list it puts it as ...

What are the vulnerabilities to providing internal users tha ability to
remote desktop to thier workstations from another internal computer?

i have a prog called limewire and something has happened that keeps trying to
load this program, does anyone know what would cause this and how do i get
rid of it, i have already uninstalled limewire but now i get error messages
saying it was trying to load

Hello - new to Google Groups so I apologize if this is in the wrong
group.
A couple days ago I had some problems with Mozilla Firefox - everytime
I opened up our office's online database it froze and shut down.  Then

When I run Windows Security Center I get this message:
"The Security Center Center is not Available" It has been stopped or turned
off. Please close the Security Center and "START THE SECURITY CENTER SERVICE"
But it does not tell you how????????????????????

I have a set of WinXP-SP2 laptops on a self-contained network and domain (no
internet access). Recently I began installing security update #902400. In
most cases, users without admin rights could not login properly. I opted to
back out the patch. In most (90%+) instances I can ...