I have been attempting to remove a virus.  One of the instructions indicates
to backup the registry and then edit it to remove some malicious code.  I
dwnloaded the instructons for loading the Backup utlity from the Windows Home
CD - however, I could not locate one in my ...

Whose idea is this un-alphabetized list of hundreds of discussion groups?
Holy Cow!
How can I post a msg about the disk noises that Windows Defender is making?
Are they normal on a deep scan?

I had to reformat my HD and then reinstalled XP Pro, installed all updates
available and went to install SP2 and it started fine and got have way and
said that there was an error that my manifest didn't match.  I'm confused.  I
don't know how to get around it.  My version of XP ...

I use my laptop for home and work. One user is HOME; the other WORK. As the
owner and admin of the laptop, I set my WORK account so that it cannot access
the HOME info, to protect my personal info while at work.
When I log into our work domain, the security policy installs an ...

After changing my video card and power supply I have found that my Windows
firewall will not start.  The two issues don't seem related but since it
happened concurrently I am suspicious.
XP Home, SP1, Norton Antivirus2005 (not Internet Secutity Package).  The

hey all,
i'm getting a steady stream of entries in my security event log from an
unauthorized user at my work.
the logs show

Does anyone know anything about a file called voblaizdupla.exe?
My ZoneAlarm notified me this morning that it was trying to access the
internet.
It is living in c:\windows\system32  folder.  No idea how it got there.

   I have two XP Pro workstation with SP2 installed.
WS01 - hasn't join into Domain
WS02- Already Join into Domain
When a Domain user try to access the share folder \\WS01\temp it got the

Hi All, I'm trying to enable the firewall on my laptop using a GPO. I've
enabled the "Protect all network connections" setting in both the Domain and
Standard profiles but after doing a gpupdate and reboot the firewall is still
off. The settings on the firewall are greyed out ...

I have a three system hardwired peer-peer net at our local club. We recently
installed DSL and a wireless router w/WEP excryption. the local systems are
connected through the router ports. These local systems must be able to
communicate and currently work fine.

I have just installed SP2 and I cannot turn on my firewall. I have ran AVG
and Windows Defender and they have found no viruses or spyware. Both programs
are update to date. The firewall used to work but now I cannot turn it on.
When I go to turn it on I get a notification saying ...

hey all,
i might be having problems at work with people getting on my pc (via sms or
mapping drives) but i can't tell for sure. when i look under shared
folders/sessions in computer management i can see a co-worker's user id show

I am a system admin & would like to allow users to use ipconfig
/release & ipconfig /renew to work w/ our DHCP server in a pinch, even
though all users are Limited Users by default.  Is this something I can
do through Group Policy?

I am using XP Pro SP2.  My BIOS is set to have numlocks on.  When my computer turns on the numlock light on my keyboard is on.  However, when windows starts up and the logon screen comes on, the numlock light is off.  As a result, I have to push the numlock key to turn it on and ...

How do I clear the last logon connection name when I bring up my Remote
Desktop?
Thanks
Rick.