I have just noticed a problem with the security centre. It is not
switched on. It says that the security centre is currently unavailable
because the security centre has not been started. I have tried
services.msc but I cant find any reference to the security centre in

I have tried hard to find the information I need to be ready to encrypt my
files on my laptop.  I’m know able to do basic thing but not confident enough
to use it.  The reason is that I have made test and it shows that my
comprehension is far from perfect.

When i'm trying to acces the "Local Security Policy" from the control panel
or directly run GPedit.msc, I always get a Group Policy Error: "You do not
have permission to perform this operation. Acces is denied."
I tried running it under several administrator accounts all with the ...

In explorer, one can set it so you see if a file / folder is encrypted by
the color.  from script or command how would one find out?
I am in the midst of migrating data from an old PC to another new PC. I
would like to get a report on files and folders that is encrypted so I can

I am trying to learn to use ASP.NET programming, and to do so I need to be
able to access databases that are hosted on my computer. The book I am using
suggest this approach to adding users and groups to the security tab in
windows xp home edition.

I have two XP Pro machines (PC1 & PC2) in a WORKGROUP environment - No Domain.
I logged on locally to PC1 and encrypted some files. I try to access those
files from PC2 through a shared folder (on PC1) and cannot open anything I
encrypted.

Task manager finally sorted out thanks for the help on that one.
I mentioned before that when I go into yahoo search for a particular subject
and the results page appears and I choose a particulat search result more
often than not I get a completely different site, very often ...

I tried to do an upgrade instalation of Windows and it failed and went into a
infinate loop of crashes, so I was forced to format and re-install from
scratch Windows Media Centre 2004. No problem there. I had most of my
important data on another partition.

i'm getting the message .. that my local profile cannot be found...so i am
only able to sign on with a "temporay profile"...
How do i get back my "local profile" ?!?!?!
any help would be greatly appreciated !!

i start this thread because i assume old threats don't get much attention,
it's not my intention to spam or anything.
i changed my ip a few times and then released it
i disconnected the internet cable

I have a Laptop user running windows XP SP2. Yesterday the user was logged
onto our WIN2K3 Domain just fine. Today he is on the road and is trying to
login to his laptop using the same username and password credentials he
always uses, but it is saying his username and/or password ...

I'm working for a school's computer lab, and I have a problem with
users that have been creating executable files by downloading
*.(exe,com,vbs,etc), or creating batch files (*.bat). I want to
disallow this if possible so they stop installing software, such as

Hi there.  I hope someone can help me.
I'm a very experienced Windows 98SE user, but I have only had this Windows
XP computer for about a month.  I set up a couple of maintenance tasks to run
daily on my computer (namely defrag and disk cleanup), but they won't run,

I need  URGENT help with this-I want to turn it ON but am stopped EVERY time
by "windows cannot start  the windows firewall/internet sharing ICS service."
There is nothing in the Windows Help index as usual!!I have disabled Zone
alarm as this is absolutely ridiculous as it ...

Looking to implement ABE.  Seems to work A-OK with the few users that we've
tested with(much like WinCloak by Scriptlogic, without the price tag).
Looking to Migrate a Netware 6.0 server running CIFS over to Win2003SP1 with
ABE.  ABE truly makes my life easier!!  :)