A friend of my daughter thought it would be funny to change the password on
her computer at the time her 9 yr old brother walked past and slammed his
hand on the keyboard. So now there is an unknown password on her computer.
There is only one user account on her computer and the ...

My WinXP keeps removing all accounts from Debug Programs
local security setting. For instance, I add the Administrator group
to the Debug Programs setting, and the group is added. However,
the next time I log on the group is removed automattically.

Hi there, we are using the Shared Computer Toolkit and trying to create
a kiosk where only our application is running and nothing else! So far,
we have created a user profile and disabled allmost everything. But for
whatever reason the taskbar wont disappear. Is there a way to do ...

the msconfig startup tab displays the startup items which can be enabled or
disabled. how do i delete the items in here? I already uninstalled the
programs related to these and even deleted the registry entries.

Hi, I am wondering is there a way for me to make  aparticular user not
appear in the "user accounts" control pannel appellet. I know how to
make it disappear from the welcome screen, but not how to make it not
appear in the control panel box. I do NOT want to disable/hide the user

Can a password be added when backing up or restoring files and folders?   If
someone copied a backup file away, can the person restore the information
using the restore wizard?

My setup:
I have one HDD with two partitions (C and D).  I have XP Home on C: and XP
Pro on D:.
I encrypted a folder that was in C:\Documents & Settings\Admin.Mike\My

I run Windows XP. I try to connect to a website to download but their message
comes up "cannot resolve servor". The site says that software that interferes
with my network connection is either, firewall has not been set to "allow"
full access to mIRC.Excursion and Norton  ...

I'm trying to resrict users in a domain from using command prompt. I'm
applying group policies at the domain level in Active Directory and following
steps properly. When the users logs on to the domain, they don't get the
policies and they are still able to use the command prompt ...

I have a Toshiba Laptop that has been happily connecting wirelessly via
Belkin PCMCIA card to my Netgear DG834G router (using WPA)...
Now for no obvious reason, it will connect wirelessly to the router, can
connect to file shares on the other PC's in the workgroup but cannot ...

Two computers both running XP Prof. connected to Belkin wireless router all
on 192.168.3.0 subnet.  File & Printer Sharing enabled and MS Firewall turned
off on both machines.
I cannot access shared folders/files between machines.  I cannot even ping

My company has many offices overseas and I need to update the local
group policies on their machines to point them to our WSUS server. We
have active directory, but the members overseas are not included due to
the time difference. I want to know if there is anyway I can create a

XP Home sp2 w/all patches and critical updates.
In trying to get NovaBACKUP to work with my NAS drive I was told to change
a service it installs to logon as my administrator user account instead of
the Local System. I do all the steps necessary but when I go to restart the

I installed the Beta version of One Care last week off the internet; install
loaded perfectly!  Software ran consistenly well for several days. installed
all of the anti-virus updates, perfromed the complete backup(9 CD's);
defrag;unnecessary file clean-up, etc.... lots of ...

I'm trying to restrict Internet Access to a workstation that a lot of users
use.  I'm 'Enabling' the 'Restrict Internet Communications' in the User
Configurations setting in the local group policies. But I still am able to
browse the internet, even after I log off and reboot.  ...